5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Frisch herb-hopfiger Geruch. Grasig-hopfiger Beginn, trocken, deutliche Herbe. Schwacher, dezent säuerlicher Hintergrund, helles Malz, kurzer Abgang, erfrischend. 9/8/9/8/8/8

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pours fairly clear blonde, small white head. Scent is a bit fruity. Bit southeastern hop style ( NZ / AUS ) Taste is bit sharp, very sessionable. Citrussy, malty, bit sharp. Very drinkable !

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

33cl bottle from Spar Oostende. F: medium, white, good retention. C: orange gold, milky hazy. A: fruity, orange, tangerine, bit spicy, unripe banana, floral. T: light malty base, orange, grapefruits, green banana, spicy, bit bready, mineral, higher bit disturbing carbonation, bit yeasty, long lasting bitterness, quite nice for low alc. beer, enjoyed.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Geers. Pours clear golden with a thin, unstable, frothy, white head. Aroma of mandarin peel, apple, hard pear, wheat, flowery soap, breadcrust. Taste has sweet unripe apple, pear & mandarin against a bready-yeasty backbone with a rather strong wheaty undercurrent, quite soapy by result, a tad bitter spicy & grainy too. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, more unripe fruit, yeast & soap, all in all very 'minerally'. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Too much carbonation, yeast & wheat bury the noble hops, alas.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Low alcohol blonde (a sunny session IPA as the brewer calls it) hopped with Centennial, Mandarina Bavaria and Equinox and containing oats and wheat next to barley in different forms. Very thick and foamy, snow white, papery lacing, frothy head, hazy yellow-golden robe with apricot tinge, lively sparkling. Aroma of green pear, unripe banana, dried camomile, dry hay, white bread, old lemon zest, soap, apricot, gypsum, hint of burnt rubber. Crisp onset, very minerally and strongly carbonated, restrained fruitiness of green banana, hard pear and unripe apricot, very subdued in sweetness but with a sourish edge from the wheat, which also provides a notable soapiness; cereally and white-bready middle, softened by the oats but the soapiness of the wheat dominates, feeling altogether 'full' for only 3.1% ABV. Grassy and floral, mildly peppery hop bitterness in the finish, adding 'body' to the final stage as well as some retronasal aromas of dried field flowers and old citrus peel, but hardly any of the luscious fruitiness I was hoping for when I read 'Mandarina Bavaria' or 'Equinox'... Instead, a rather annoying gypsum-like minerality and strong wheaty soapiness linger. More a 'postmodern hop-forward session Belgian blonde' than a true ISA, a bit like L'Arogante Session, but much more 'wheated' than that one; fits in this recent string of low ABV Belgian beers, a trend clearly inspired by the global popularity of ISA in the craft beer world. In that segment, certainly not the worst one, but I maintain that more New World hop aromatics and less wheat soapiness would greatly improve this one - and, perhaps, turn it into a true session IPA.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12/III/20 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 19/VII/20 (2020-260)

Clear orange beer, big creamy yellowish head, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, slightly fruity, cow fodder, some almonds, bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty start, pretty bitter, hoppy, grassy, not bad. Aftertaste: little metallic, some grapefruit, cow fodder, bitter and dry, nice but a bit too old. Weird, I thought I had already reviewed this one month ago.

6

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

03/09/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Cloudy light orange, huge rocky white head. Nose is grains, grassy, bit fruit. Taste is bone dry, bit lemon, grains, bit pepper, nice dry bitter ending.