t Smisje Wostyntje

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

amber coloured little sparkling body with a off white head a spicy fruity aroma a spicy herby little soury fruity taste with a little soury bitter finish

Dark orange coloured beer with medium diminishing white head and lots of carbonation. Sour fruity aroma flovoured with some yeast. Full palate. Finish is long sour.

Enjoyed at Bailey’s Chocolate Bar. 11.2 oz. bottle. A big off white head was as if layered on with a trowel. Dissipated slowly over an amber cloudy beer. Aroma was sweet fruit and spice. Also something I could not quite identify, possibly the mustard. Flavor was not all that pleasant with a dry zesty bitterness. Lots of fruit, sugar, and spice. Still this was a dry beer and one that seemed to work against itself. Once was enough with this one.

trade with papsoe. unclear brown, small white head. aroma is sour milk, slightly fruity. flaovr is like a belgian brune, caramel , sourness, slight fruitiness.

Bottle into Trappist glass. Pours hazy amber with a huge rocky off-white head that settles to about 2 fingerbreadths. Malty aroma with dry hops. Tastes of prominent tangerine with caramel and sugary light malts. I did not detect any mustard in there. A lot sweeter and orangey than I expected. Finishes with a tangy sweet fruitiness. Not one I’d go back to. A largely failed experiment in my opinion.

Draft at Redlight. I don’t get much mustard. A lot of wheat and grain with some lemon. Super cloudy brownish yellow with a white head. Taste isn’t very good. Light with low carbonation. Flavor is weird... can’t really pinpoint what’s going on in there, but I don’t like it.

From the bottle pours a lightly hazy, deep orange-amber color with a moderate, slowly fleeting head of cream colored foam. A soapy wash mostly rejoins the body, leaving minimal micro-spotting behind. The aroma shows an odd sweet-tart malt base, with slightly bronzed, blonde candy sugar being accompanied by an acidic, medicinal sort of spice note that I can only attribute to the mustard seed. Hints of tumeric come to mind, as does abrasive anise and salty iodine. It’s sort of briny, in a way. The flavor is similarly structured, the mustard seed and various spices working against the sweet candy sugar, forming a briny, vinegary, acidic concoction that just doesn’t sit right with me. The body is substantial to the point of being lightly syrupy, with that odd acidity being intensified by the lively carbonation. This one reminds me of some of the briny Italian SHVs that are out these days, but that doesn’t seem to fit with the traditional Belgian candy sugar base. Weird, but not that good.

(33cl bottle) Hazy, golden colour with a big and slightly off-white foamy head. Sweet, delicately malty aroma with a distinctive sharp spicy note, almost iodinic…must be the mustard seed. Sweet and slightly sourish tart flavour, medium body with a moderate carbonation. Malt-accented and subtle fruity taste with present spicy elements; quite sourish and tart finish. Reminds me of an infected Whisky malt lager (22.06.09).