A month of so ago I showed you a bottle of Kwak, a Belgian ale, that had the filthiest amount of thick sediment floating in it that I had ever seen… This past weekend I opened that bottle… and look. This picture has not been modified, altered or edited. There was such an insane suspension of flaky sediment floating in this beer – it was kinda gross, but very intriguing. I’ve never, and no one I have shown this to has ever seen sediment or yeast debris like this. But, I wasn’t going to shy away from it. After all, it’s just beer… right?

The Kwak itself, or the liquid beer tasted delicious, just like a Kwak should. But I could feel the sediment gliding over my palate. It wasn’t as gross as it looks, and for the most part it was just a gentle texture, nothing too extreme. But as the beer was consumed and the sediment began to settle, a very earthy and musty flavor began to engulf the beer. The sediment started to take over and more and more and I was feeling it pass by my tongue. It got a bit tough to drink, and my the time there was only 2 inches of beer, more than half of it was sediment… I’m still not sure what caused this, and I have not heard anything back from the Bosteels Brewery who makes Kwak. It is yet another beer mystery.

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