3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
33cl. bottle: Pours a lightly hazy orange gold with a quickly dying bubbly off-white head. Aroma of multi-grain pancakes with maple syrup, with a bowl of oatmeal next to it and a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice (maybe I shouldn’t have skipped breakfast this morning!). Some spicy yeast character, some green apple, and a touch of toasted banana bread fill out the aroma. At first the beer seems a touch thin on the tongue until the flavors start to kick in. There is a sort of delayed reaction. First there is dark spice which leads into grain. Proceeding through the flavors green apple and citrus notes pop up next. This brings you back to spice and then finishes through oats, spice, and citrus. A touch of toasted sugars can be noticed fading in and out through the finish. Definitely an interesting beer. As it is new, it will be nice to see where it is taken.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From 33cl bottle, BB 07/11/09. Hazy dark golden body with a fluffy lasting head leaving a good lacing. Orange peel and clove in the nose, fruity and complex. Citric start, with a distinctive yeasty development in the middle mouth and gaining spicyness. Nice bitter finish and rather fruity aftertaste. Medium body with a low carbonation that powers flavors. This combination of 4 different grains produces a very good ale.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow to orange with a white head. Aroma is complex wheaty/spelt grainy with a very pronounced note of orange peel and a mild yet distinct spice note, underlying is a very classic Belgian yeasty note. Flavour is rather complex and following the same lines as the aroma. Orange peel and coriander take a step forward in a medium sweet fruity beer. Ends with a lingering wheat and spelt flavour with a little remaining orange peel note. Lovely!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: SEP 27, 2008 Bottle, 33 cl. @ home. (bought Geers) Hazy, darkgolden color, with white head.
Aroma fruity, sweet, yeast, some spice. Medium body. Taste start light sweet, bit bitter, fruits, some spice touch.
Not bad.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
#1,000 - Bottle from Cracked Kettle. Straw orange. Tall head. Citrus and hoppy nose. Nice texture, mouthfeel. Oranges, mango, strong grapefruit taste. A tad bitter. With a prickly finish. Decent.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle@Delirium, Brussels. Hazy amber with a nice offwhite head. Spicy and yeasty aroma. Complex fruity, yeasty and spicy flavours. Dry mouthfeel. A well-made Belgian ale.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle@Home. Label said 6.6% ABV. Citrus, banana and wheat aroma. Hazy, yellow color, white head, fair lace. Light sweet, light bitter start, fruity banana middle, very sweet and more bitter finish but then abrubtly stops. Sparkling mouthfeel.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: FEB 11, 2008 On bottle. Just a middle class beer. Not bad but not good also. Hope it will get better. Tasted the new version and talked to the brewer. And indeed the taste was much better. I am waiting to taste the version on draft
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: DEC 16, 2007 Small off-white head over pale ochre-orange beer. Vegetable & deepfried dumplings nose, as batter-surrounded vegetable matter, deep fried. Slightly sweet taste, as well as (cooked) vegetable, DMS. A bit fiery MF, but soon the beer falls flat. I was told this was brewed at a new location (then why the La Binchoise address on the bottle?). Anyway, it needs quite some work.
Additional info from the brewer: brewed by the own brewer at the site at La Binchoise, but independantly. Similar to the Struise Brouwers/ Deca situation.
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