t Smisje Fiori

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

Color is murky, dirty, muted golden with a sticky-icky lacing. Aroma is lightly tart, lightly brine-y, and lightly white raisin bread. Similar flavor and very easy drinking without being light. Leaves a light aftertaste of muted passion fruit. This was nice stuff, and salty dog is at the beach.
33cl bottle, date #rd quarter of 2009?, from Bier Temple, in a De Neve tumbler.

On tap @ the brewery. Hazy amber color, with nice off-white head. Aroma yeast, hops, caramel. Medium body. Taste is bit sweet, lightly sour flowery and spices. Good.

Delicata e complessa, è una birra di grande valore ed altissima beverinità, che rischia di farsi mandare giù con troppa disinvoltura anche perché è l’unica T’Smisje fra quelle che ho finora assaggiato a non avere il forte piccante alcolico (infatti la gradazione è minore del solito). Ce ne vorrebbe una cisterna

11.2oz grenade bottle. Thick orange-brown color. Thin, lasting head. Pretty much one that can only be classified as a "Belgian Ale". Peculiarly spiced, but still balances with the sweet candi sugar and yeast. Never overwhelming alcohol-wise, with a great creamy effervescence. Highly complex..sweet, sour, spiced, yeasty, hoppy... an interesting concoction. I’ll be back.

tap @ Monk’s. This beer was different all right, having the flavor of odd spices and what seemed to be smoked ham hocks added during the boil. It had an upper end of medium bodied flavor that could hold it’s own with what I was eating. A good amount of funk and brett in the mix as well. Not too sweet or viscous with a clean, almost crisp mouthfeel. I ended up ordering 2. Thought it was pretty good.

Bottle. Pours hazy orange golden with lacing offwhite head. Yeasty, bready and spicy aroma. Quite bitter flavours with a herbal twist, noticeable alcohol, salty notes, dry. Satisfyingly different.

At ZBF, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Hazy blond body. Creamy, off-white head. Aroma of vanilla, hops, caramel, ... Lightly sweet, lightly sour flavour. Flowery. Soft with a nice balance.

Bottle from Healthy Spirits in S.F., CA. Hazy peach fuzz color with a very impressive white head. The aroma is something else. Reminds me of linoleum paste from decades ago. Yeast, brine, multiple spices. Medium body with fine carbonation. Flavor is wet wood, brine, bread, some sort of spice. It is on the naked edge. I am always up for different and unusual, and this certainly is. Finish is a bit papery, but all that other stuff is still there. Brewed in Brugge. Does it get better than that? Yeah, but this is something that should be on your bucket list.