t Smisje Fiori

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

Bottle. Cloudy orange gold with a medium foam. Aromas are soft malts, bubblegum and yeast with soft spices. Flavours are caramel malts with spices and yeast. Dry on the finish. Simple yet effective.

Bottle from new beer. Pours a orange amber body with a creamy white head. Sweet fruity esters pear, apple, a bit tart and some candi sugar. Spices of clove and musky wood. Light etoh with a semi dry finish. Fruity esters linger in the aftermath. Good.

Pours a lightly hazy copper, with a fizzy, short-lived head - the aroma is slightly musty and tart, with some bizarre underlying complexities that include root vegetables (starchy character), charred wood, burnt herbs, dandelions, a touch of candi sugar sweetness - an odd but not unpleasant combination - the flavor gets even more strange, though - things start out with flavors of beechwood ashes and boiled vegetables - this is followed by some bitterness and aromatic herbal and wildflower character, but these, too, taste charred, like someone lit plants on fire and crushed the ashes of them into my beer - this is followed by a very light sweetness and peppery character - the vegetal qualities and burnt flavor return for the finish, as well as some papery/cork-like oxidized notes - there is a fine line between unique/interesting and just plain bad, and this beer kind of has one foot on each side of that line.

Bottle. Large white creamy lasting head with good lacing. Copper/orange hazy body. Aroma of oranges, honey, grain and grass. Bitter finish, oily texture. Medium bitter and sweet.

Bottle, bought @ Vinens Verden, Odense.
Pours muddy, pale amber with a small, creamy, off-white head. Aroma has pepper, some cardboard, coriander and herbs. Fine mouthfeel, medium carbonation. Flavour is very flowery, tulips and roses. Light herbal touch as well.

33cl bottle at home: Hazy orange with an amber center. Yellowed tall and creamy head sits nicely on top. Turns to a rocky mountainscape after a while. Big malt and husky fresh grain aroma. Touch of grassiness. A nice "burnt earth" or wood-fired clay pot in the background. At first it is hidden by the grain and wildflower bouquet but as that diisapates the fired clay comes out. Sweet yellow cake starts to build up as well, but raw grain, malt, and wild flowers dominate. Grain husk, wheat, and some sort of wild grass come out first upon tasting. Alcohol note comes in the middle but never reaches the nose. Some oiliness in the middle too. Yeast, alcohol, yellow cake, grass and wheat take you on a long journey before leaving you with wheat, hay and a touch of wet newspaper. CO2 is high enough to keep the slickness of the beer from becoming oppressive. Very interesting but falls apart at the end a bit.

Bottle at chris_o’s angry fist tasting. Alround rating: Dusty house yeast, pale sweet malts, spicey peppery character.

Bottle: This is a very weird beer. Pours a hazy deep golden/orange with a dense white head that laces. Has a very unique aroma! Burning paper, tree bark, almost incense-like. Extremely unique. The body is prickly yet creamy. Has a very odd flavor as well. Plasticy, smoky incense spiciness? It has such a unique flavor that it’s hard to describe. Has a yeasty dryness which compliments the odd spicy flavors. It isn’t necessarily universally pleasant as an edible product, but it’s so unique and weird that I enjoyed trying to figure out the flavors. Very interesting.