Follow-up.
This has been in the bottle for less than a week but could not resist sampling one.
This has turned out to be an amazing brew. Pretty hard to describe, and certainly not everyone's favourite, but damn I think I'm in love.
The herbal bitterness of the wormwood, together with all the other herbs and the ridiculous amount of drygale results in an intensely fruity bitter beer. Again, I'm reminded of grapefruit (which us stupid Belgians call pompelmoes, which cracks the Dutch up no end, but that's linguistics for you).
Everything about this beer just clicks with me: bitter, flavourful and decidedly left-of-center. The slightly tart/lemony Fantome yeast pairs well with the beer overall, and the oat malts impart a smooth silky dessert-mike quality.
Is it a proper koyt? Probably not.
Is it a delicately-spiced gruit? Certainly not.
But damn this stuff is drinkable!