Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Thompson. Hazy dark brown color, a slight dark red glare coming through when held into the light, medium sized foamy beige to light brown head. Aroma is malts, lightly peat, lightly smoke, leather, tar, iodine, but also lightly vegetal. Taste malts, again lightly peat, tar, iodine, light to average bitterness. Decent body and carbonation. Not my kind of beer.

Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a huge orangey head. The aroma has notes of malt and straw. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and and over ripe fruits, leading to a bitter finish.

33 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a huge white head. Aroma is bretty, fruity and solid hoppy. Dry, brettyand mild grapefruity. Smooth fruity, bretty and dry. Crisp hoppy.

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!

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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