Draft - Wheat and some corriander aromatics. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Wheat and mellow herbal and spice notes.

Bottle @ home. Blonde colour with a medium sized white head. Smells floral, hops, fresh, soapy, thyme. Tastes floral, bitter, slightly soapy, some hops, herbs and spices. Thin to medium body, nice carbo. Aftertaste is a bit too harsh for me.

Bottle. Color: Hazy gold to amber, white head. Taste: Citrus and floral, hints of berries, bit hoppy but mostly sweet. Nice bitter notes of hop in the finish. Nice refreshing and fruity spring beer for once in a while.

Ik weet niet waar de gin zich verstopt heeft, maar hij is ver te zoeken. Verder prima.

Bottle. Golden pour. Aroma has sweet elderflower, yeast, malt and herbs. Taste of sweet yeast, sweet elderflower, malt and floral herbs. Really sweet, although I like elderflower in itself, combined with sweet yeast the sweetness is too much.

Bottle, hazy white beer, small head. Aroma is malt, herbs, spices, gin. Taste is the same, bitter with some sweet, ok beer

Bottle, hazy orange beer, small head. Aroma is flowers, malt, hops. Taste is the same, somewhat sweet, not bad.

The extra spiced Weissbier from these two lovely brewing ladies, from a bottle bought at the Albert Heijn supermarket in Lokeren. Egg-white, dense and creamy, regular head leaving some limited ’paper’ lacing and remaining moussy on the edges whilst dissolving slowly in the middle, over a hazy straw blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge, more misty and warm peachy with sediment added but still looking attractive at that stage. Aroma of banana mush, soapy coriander seed, moist dough, unmistakable juniper berries but fortunately not too obtrusive, dried lemon peel (must be the classic curaçao), molten powder sugar, tulips (not necessarily from Amsterdam), young cheese, hints of phenolic aniseed, ripe pear, pineapple slices, cooked potato, apricot, chamomile tea, green plum, baker’s yeast and, alas, some very vague DMS far away in the background but not succeeding in escaping my DMS-hating nose. Fruity onset with the banana ester dominating (as expected from anything Weizen-like), sweet pineapple and ripe pear notes as well as a soft sourish gooseberry aspect later on reinforced by the basic sourishness of the spelt and - less so - the wheat, in an initially quite spritzy, but adequately carbonated environment, quite refreshing. Bready malt sweetishness and soapy, softly sourish wheatiness rule the middle phase, with the spelt accentuating the wheat souring aspect without becoming too grainy, carrying the banana ester onwards to a mildly drying finish, in which a subtle bready yeastiness appears underneath the expected retronasal impressions of coriander seed, old dry citrus peel having lost a lot of its uplifting aromas and, of course, the juniper berries, which add a gin-like touch but somehow manage not to completely overrule the classic witbier spicing; they do add a very notable resinous wryness on the root of the tongue in the end, along with a modest dash of earthy but otherwise ’colourless’ and merely structural hops - as it should be in a ’tarwedubbel’. Alcohol adds a certain glow as well, but only very faintly so - fortunately. Decent wheat ale, in all: I feared that the juniper berries would be much more agressive - a thing I hate since I encountered it in several recent Belgian beers (Hop(e)less Ginny, I’ll never forget it) - but in this particular case, they add a wryness on top of the tongue as well as aroma, but seem to live in relative harmony with the coriander and the curaçao (though the latter still remains understated and could have been a more refreshing factor if it had been applied more generously). Stylistically, this is a kind of hybrid between the two most classic wheat ale genres: Belgian witbier because of its very obvious spicing and perhaps also the spelt, and German Weissbier because of the use of malted wheat, though in all, it is the first of these two which dominates the second. If I had to explain this beer to less ’geeky’ friends, I’d therefore associate it closer to witbier than to Weissbier, but an accomplished one in that particular segment, to be preferred over e.g. Hoegaarden, to name just one example...

33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ Albert Heijn Culemborg. Hazy yellow with a big white head. Wheat aroma with orange, coriander and juniper berries. Taste and mouthfeel is that of a typical German weizen but the fruit and herbs really work in this one. Nice summer beer.