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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

One of the two first beers produced by this new (2019) microbrewery in the north of the Limburg province, in an area called 'Bosland' and determined to keep things as local as possible, making use of Bosland ingredients as much as they can. This blonde has a snow white, mousy, medium sized, membrane-lacing, thinning head and hazy apricot blonde robe, acquiring an ochre-ish tinge and more cloudy look with sediment. Aroma of ripe apricot, banana peel, coriander seed (and a lot of it), outspoken DMS (overcooked broccoli), white bread, glazed carrot, clove, honey, old potatoes, background hints of grass and sour cream. Fruity onset, fizzy, ripe peach, pear and banana notes, sweet with a light sourish undertone; smooth, slick body, white-bready and cereally pale malt sweetishness under quite thick honeyish residual sugar and, alas, the DMS returning retronasally, along with mild spicy phenols (clove) and soapy, dusty-spicy coriander. A floral hop bitterness does appear, but in a very late stage and only briefly and mildly so. Your ordinary, sweet, overcoriandered Belgian style blonde ale, all the clichés are present here - and then there is that awful DMS coming across very strongly... Not my cup of beer, I'm afraid.