t Smisje Wostyntje

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Belgian Ale
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

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.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange amber body with a tan head. Sweet alcohol latent fruits, candi sugar, unrefined malty sugars. Dry spicy mustard seed and a dry woodiness. Pepper spice. more spices. good brew.

I like the mustard flavor. And it had a beautiful head. It’s everything about this beer I don’t like. It’s sour and not in a good lambic way. It’s thin and overcarbonated. It’s borderline gross.

11.2 oz. bottle, consumed on 1-19-09. This bottle probably had at about 2 years of age on it, maybe more. Appetizing, complex, intriguing, tart, yeasty, floral aroma of apple juice, dust, chalk, white grape juice, honey, and yellow plum. Smells like a musty tripel. Pours a bright, dark gold to bronze color. Moderate amount of eggshell-colored head. Effervescent; tons of bubbles. I poured half of the beer out at first and the second half after I had consumed the first half. The first half poured mostly clear with some haze. The second half was cloudy and milky with a lot of suspended particulate and looked like apple cider. White wine, white vinegar, and white grape juice flavors. Dry, tart, and fruity. The taste is not as complex as the aroma. Not particularly spicy or mustardy. Medium body. The palate effects are not remarkable. I was a little worried about the mustard, but Wostyntje was in no way offensive and actually pretty good.

It is slightly hazy, warm golden with a huge, white and creamy head. The aroma has notes of malt, mustard, spice, yeast and plastic. The flavour has notes of malt, mustard (with a slightly burning feel), coriander, yeast, a very light sweetness and bitterness, and it ends on a dry and spicy note. I tried it with the New Year cod fish, but I quickly switched to another one.

The best mustard seed beer I have ever tasted. Musty dry spice with a bitter finish. Worth trying. Pair it carefully, no hot dogs.

Very cloudy pour with ivory head about an 1/3 an inch. I think knowing this had mustard seed has affected the rest of my thoughts though. Still, I enjoyed this and went well with my sausages.