Single
New Limburg Brewing Company

Appearance: The body has a thick opaque gold color which makes in so that unless you hold it up to the light in the exact right way, you will barely see robust carbonation. However, you know it is there because the finger of head in produces stick around for some time. In fact, I'd go so far to say that I can't recall the last time I found a beer with head that suck around that long. It also manages to produce some lace, as I would expect.

Smell: Has a dry white wine smell to it that dominates the nose and is backed by floral and a touch of biscuit malt. It is very powerful, and doesn't require any warming to come out at all. Good stuff.

Taste: Unsurprisingly it has a very strong fruity yeast presence that seems to favour wine and grape as it quickly overwhelms some mild biscuit and dry bread taste which then encounters a slight sweep of earthy hops to round out the experience.

Mouthfeel: I'm not certain if it is the carbonation or the dry yeast and hop notes that are to blame for it, but after the lovely wine aspect, it takes on an almost club soda like quality I'm not a big fan of. Thankfully, it doesn't carry over into the aftertaste which is a mild earth and floral hop note that never gets out of control. As the carbonation seems to settle down, it takes on a nicer creamy quality as well the mitigates that odd club soda presence.

Drinkability: That dry note really does hamper it quite a bit, but thankfully because the aftertaste doesn't really stick around very long, it seems to cleanse the palate quickly. It certainly comes across as very light bodied, which I'm not sure if the best thing for it. That said, it's remarkably easy on the system.

Final Thoughts: When I started drinking this, Duvel immediately came to my mind. However it seems this offering trades the unconcealed booziness of the beer in favor of a much lighter experience, but at the cost of that dry note that seems out of place. I'm kind of left wondering if a bit more malt was present to raise the ABV slightly, how would it fare. That said, I'm not a brewer, I'm a drinker, and this is certainly one of the better Belgian experiences I've had come out of Ontario. I'm certainly intrigued as to what the Dubbel, Tripel and Quads will be like now.