Pale Ale
Bastone Brewery

I'll take a wild guess they were emulating De Koninck or Palm with this beer? A fair ringer if they were.

Pours a glistening orange with gold highlights with a fair though thin head leaving some sticky lace. Smell opens to light yeast-borne citric fruitiness and whiffs of phenolic spiciness. Behind that is a sweet but alluring light caramel maltiness with subtle bready hints.

Taste is very spicy, mostly from the yeast but some from strong bittering and a healthy dash of hop flavor with a dimishing toastiness in what seems like a nod to Vienna malts. Overall, though, the malt is hard to find and in strongly in need as the spice of De Koninck-like phenols kicked major butt along with Goldings-type earthy hop character. Mouthfeel was slick as a pils but with some ale-girth and texture.

A good beer with food and quite a tingler for a Belgian brew. Could use a little more malt balance to aid drinkability. Regardless, well-crafted.

Nice orange transluscent color with good head. Estery yeast aroma, with little hop aroma. Descent malt flavor, a little Belgian yeast flavor, hop bitterness but not too much hop flavor, overall clean and tasty. I found it enjoyable, I didn’t expect a ton of hops, and I thought the hop/malt balance was good, but I would have liked a little more of the Belgian yeast character