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Orange golden appearance with a minimum off white head. Aroma: sour gum, mango, apple cider, orangerasberries, thym and lime. Flavor: salty ginger ale, white pepper, thym, ginfer bread and coriander. Palate: medium body, lively carbonation, oily with a dry chalky finish.

375 ml 9,5 % t.h.t. (guaranteed maximal containable quality date) 08/2011. Drank it young, she was beautiful with a white perky top. A sort of fine old geuze without the time spent. It can well be kept but why should you. Its fine right now. Also the bottle is uneasy kept in the fridge. Is this where saison and young gueuze (lambic) meet? An alltogether fine beer with perfect presence and flavor. Have yourself the depot to end it with.

75cl corked and wired bottle, label different from the one pictured (it’s green, like the bottle). Pours a beautiful hazy orange witgh a big, soapy white head with normal retention and decent lacing. Aroma, likewise, is of orange, with some spicy herbs, yeast and an alcoholic note on top. Active carbonation, thick, tickly but smooth mouth feel. Complex taste of orange and other sweet orchard fruit, some coriander and a dry, hoppy finish. Sour-bitter after taste. Sweet notes in the beer throughout, but it’s not a sweetish brew. Refreshing sour notes also present all along the way. Excellent bottle-conditioned strong Belgian blonde, supremely well balanced and not too boozy despite the whopping 9.5 % abv. Dangerously sessionable, and agreeably complex without being oppressively sweet.

Corked and wired 750ml bottle. Pours hazy pale orange with a huge dense rocky and lasting white head that provides excellent lacing. Nose is bready malts, light lemony citrus, subtle honey and earthy spicy hops. The taste is very restrained sweet grainy malts with a wonderful peppery spicy dry hop finish. Faint vanilla in there as well. It has a thick chewy mouthfeel with the ABV only apparent at the very end. Excellent, complex, classy and refreshing. Right up there with the very best.

Bottled 75cl. Beautiful appearance: Rich head, good lacework, great color. Complex aroma of yeast, clove, white bread, melon, coriander, apricot, peach and a huge amount of pear. Spicy yeasty taste. Practically no acidity. Some alcohol showing up on the swallow. Sweetish. A lot of cloves apparent. Reminiscence of cloves and pear in the finish. A very good beer.

75 cl bottle. Cloudy golden color with an amber tint. Nose: fruit and herbs. Citrus is big. Pears. Very dry. Big carbonation, with big, biscuity pilsner malt, flavors of yeast, a bit of alcohol, citrus peel, apple, pear and maybe plum. Thin body and extremely dry. Very impressive and original but not as likeable as their Moinette or Saison. Good understated hops. Great and technically perfect, but too dry and lacks the kindness of their other beers.

750ml bottle. Pours an opaque hay colored body with a massive white head. Solid retention and beautiful sheet lacing. Aroma is initially a bit earthy, grassy, some barnyard funk, as well as a zesty fruit character. Tastes of sweet yeasty malt up front with hints of lemon, vanilla, and wet hay. Good carbonation and nice refreshing bite.

750ML Bottle. Pours a cloudy gold with citrus and spice notes. Grass shows on the palate along with the citrus and spice. A nice light bitterness pushes along at the finish.