Hoevebrouwers Toria

Brewed by De Graal
Style: Belgian Ale
Brakel, Belgium

Bottle: Poured a golden yellow with ghost like shapes created from the huge white carbonated head. The aroma is a hoppy metallic. The taste is sweet spices and it changes to a very hoppy finish.

Had it from draught at beer festival in Zottegem, drunk also the bottle version. A spicy beer with some sour touch.

Bottle, 6.5% from De Proefbrouwerij. Vegetable, urine and cream aroma, not really unpleasant. Hazy golden colour, small white head. High carbonation. Vegetable flavour with some coriander, OK spiciness. Sourish hop finish. Again, not as bad as it sounds.

33cL at Delirium. Aroma is a bit sugary with some vanilla notes. Looks clear gold with not much white head. Sweetish beer with a mild kick of hops and a dry finish. Well-made blonde, might even give it another go.

(Bottled@Delirium Cafe, Brussels) Hazy golden with a smallish head. Honey-sweetish, slightly vegetably aroma with hints of alcohol. Quite acidic, sweetish-malty flavor with some fruitiness and very little hops. Medium-bodied, slightly slicky and foamy palate. Decent, a very basic blonde - not very interesting.

Bottle, 33 cl. Today at the new farm brewery. Light hazy orange-golden beer. Good bitterness like Oravl. Taste bitterness, but not to bitter, hoppy. The people are there, everyone like this beer !

Original version from Picobrouwerij Alvinne Head gone in seconds; very lightly hazy orange-golden beer. Spicey nose with some hints of citrus and some malts, bubble gum. Grainy taste like from oats, crude bitterness, not heavily, but lacks hoppy aromatics. Finish/retronasal is dull spicey like mustard powder or horseradish, and my co-taster complains of acetic acid. Very titillating MF despite no apparent high carbonation. Yet the beer is dead after a minute or two. Needs some serious work. I do not know what the dull-spicey bitterness causes, but I fear it had better go.