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bottle, pours hazy orange with a medium off white head. Heavy aroma of dried granny apple, apricot and yeast. Light malt and a sweet and sour fruity element that fades to a nice dry hop and what I think is the mustard seed. Actually quite nice, as most Regenboog beers are. Lots of complexity and enough going on to keep it interesting, yet very easy to drink.

Draught at TDR: Fresh aroma of slight apple and slight mustard. Poured brown in color with a small tan head that lasted throughout. Very hazy. Very sparkling. Flavor is lightly sweet and slightly sour. Tastes of mustard seed, sour apples, spices, and slight fruit. Medium body. Thin texture. Average carbonation. Slightly sour, slight mustard, and sour apple finish. A very strange beer. It grew on me.

On tap @ the Hopleaf. Average beer, worth trying for the novelty factor of a beer brewed w/ mustard, which lends it a most unusual bitterness. From the bar description: 90% pilsner malt, Reut Goldings, Challenger hops, crushed Torhout mustard seeds and dark and light candy sugars.

The beer pouted a clear amber with a huge head, the presentation was the best part of the beer. There was a funky weird spicey aroma that reminded me of a septic wound with a hint of bandaid and citrus. The flavor was just as odd with a slight citrus and mustdard and peppery notes that do not go well with beer. It was light on the palate. Overall, there is just something strange about this beer that is tough to describe, I would rather have any light American lager over this beer, it just did not sit well and ended up down the drain.

Bottle thanks to nearbeer. Pours an amber orange with two fingers of off white head and some ugly looking black yeasty bits. A very distinct spicy mustard aroma, some sweet pear fruit, a light sourness, musty. Taste is mustard, funky cheese. Very weird, cloying but with sour lemons and bitter spiciness. Could not stand much more than a few sips.

I am reliably informed this has aromas of unsweetened echinacea. I pick up on a sweetness underlying some light hops. Bitter immediately with a sourness but has a great cleansing savoury finish with hints of sweetness. Wonderful with the cheese souffle I drank it with.

11.2-oz. I’m grading this primarily as a food beer. As a thirst quencher/sipper, I can’t argue too much with the 3.0 rating it’s been averaging. As a food beer, though, it’s got some assertive tang to it that, with the carbonation, would really cleanse the palate beautifully of fatty roast meat and stuff like that. Pours a hazy light amber with tons of vigorously rising carb. Dense, creamy platinum blonde head. Plenty of lace. Tangy, floral mustard and mustard greens nose--very much a botanical scent. How I know this is beyond me; I don’t sniff a lot of mustard in different contexts. Creamy medium body with brightly assertive carb. Lemon and blackberry are an excellent description of the mid-palate; they carry along and then a nice dark brown mustard note takes effect. Long mustardy finish. This is a very promising food beer, but, that said, I don’t know how interested I am in finishing this.

33 cl. Foggy amber-copper with a smallish, but lasting creamy head. Pungent aromas of mustard and medicinal iodine. Flavor is the same, with some sweet nuttiness hidden underneath the medicine. Later some tart-sweet lemon and blackberry nearly lambic flavors come to dominate, and turn the mustard into some woody-sulphur and iodine-shrimp flavors in the long finish. Light-medium body is watery, dry and sorta smooth. Nice lacing. If you can hang with this beer through half of it becomes better. Very complex and interesting, but not my style.