Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Negra, coca-cola. Abundantísima espuma de aspecto jabonoso. Tarda en bajar. Aroma a café. En boca bastante gaseosa, ligera de cuerpo y sabor metálico que tapa lo demás. Lo demás es algo no bien conseguido, entre ácido y café. Nada agradable. Mala.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

From a 33 cl bottle, bottled half a year ago. Very serious gusher: the beer just erupted violently from the neck upon opening. Very thick, rocky, moussy, off-white head thinning after a while but remaining stable, colour hazy orange blonde with vivid fizz and a ’fog’ of minute yeast particles suspended throughout the liquid; it becomes murky and cloudy with deposit, but still looking nicely orange. Aroma of sourdough, redcurrant, a lot manure almost ruining it and probably due to bacterial infection, garden weeds, mouldy hazelnuts, dried orange peel, toast, red apple peel, jute, dusty old grains, pineapple, delicate honey sweetness somewhere and floral hops. The taste unmistakably reveals infection, as the gushing and ’dirty sourness’ in the aroma already announced; a coarse, deep sourness overlies crisp, orange- and pineapple-like fruitiness especially in the onset. After that, it does get more mellow, but it remains detectable till the finish. Carbonation is spritzy, mouthfeel soft and fluffy, with bready and toasted malts adorned with curaçao spiciness; finish is yeasty, bready and moderately hoppy, in a deep earthy, subtly peppery, softly bittering way. A certain amount of alcohol warmth is there after swallowing but not present in the taste, but something astringently phenolic, probably linked to the infection, does linger for a while. Residual candi sugar sweetness remains too. Too bad for the infection, the bacterial odour and the violent gushing, could have been a decent beer otherwise. I’ve seen this amount of gushing a lot lately in beers made at Gaverhopke - something is terribly wrong there, that much is clear!

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Klaas. Many thanks! Dark brown colour, thin layer of foam. Medium carbonation. Roasted malts, coffee, sour notes. Unbalanced and thin. Not very good.

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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Black with thin head. Strong aroma of burnt malts and treacle. Also quite boozy and grassy. Fairly agressive carbonation is out of place. Burnt and bittersweet flavour. Roasted, boozy and warming.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Explosive gushing, even from the glass!! Ye gods. Muddy dark brown beer, half a meter of rustbrown foam. End of bottle UFO-laden. Chocolatey roasted malts, dark bread, Maillard-like, but sweetish. Bit of ashes. Dull-sweet, yeasty flavour. Again chocolatey, bit ganache-like. Well-bodied, yeast-filled, slick, velvety. When are they going their act right in Stasegem? It’s getting embarrassing.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750 ml bottle. Beautiful deep hazy orange, loads of cloudy white foam, dissipating slowly leaving some lacings. Aroma is citrus up-front, then more sweeter tones of bread, vort, again some sour notes of orange and wheat, some well executed yeasty complexity and a dry finish. Medium body, low carbo, soft and dry texture. Solid.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Bottle picked up at Dranken Geers, Oostakker, Nr Gent, Belgie consumed at home Thursday 26th March 2015 Cloudy amber with a white fluffy head. Some candi sugar, with a spicy edge, in fact too sweet, caramel also and a bit of corn flake. The aroma has a rather industrial chemical taint. Not great. A4 A3 T4 P2 OV 8 2.1