Bottle, 7%. Slightly hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, brett, funk and oak. Flavour is malt, fruit, brett, medium sweet, apple, oak, wine, little dry and a little bitter.

Bottle, TTOD(U)RBSG17. Nearly clear golden, white head. Aroma has wood, vinous notes and discrete brett. Bitter, dry flavour. Woody notes. Some sweetness too. Rather light.

8 3 7 3 15 Bottle shared at Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering ’17. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of brett, barnyard, horse blanket, oak, light citrus and light fruit. Flavour is light moderate sweet with above light bitterness and a touch of sourness. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Bottle @ Fonefan Summer Gathering. Light hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, bretty, fruity and wood. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 180817

Sampled @ The Tenth Official Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2017, Day 1. A clear golden beer with a mid-sized good lasting white head. Aroma of mild sweet woody malt, bourbon, herbs, brett. Taste of soft tart fruits, pale fruits, sweet wood, bourbon, brett.

Belgian ale brewed in North Carolina, refermented with Brettanomyces and aged on wine barrels, sounds like my kind of beer... Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck, surprised I’m only the second one here to rate it. Very intricately cobweb-lacing, very stable, pale greyish beige, moussy head over a lightly hazy, rustic ’old gold’ coloured beer with orangey tinge. Very estery, mildly Bretty, thoroughly Belgian and ’added wine-like’ aroma of sweet white grapes and wry grape peel, overripe pear, fermenting peaches, dessert wine must and oloroso sherry, ripe purple gooseberries, caramel, fried pineapple slices, old bread, moldy old oranges, freshly cut red apples, wet hay, juice oozing out of a medium rare horse steak, ripe mango, strawberry jam, marmelade, vanilla-ish oak, cheese spread, some ’Bretty urine’ but only very faintly so. Fruity, very estery onset, lots of ripe peach, apricot, gooseberry and pear flavours, sweetish core with softly, elegantly souring edges, prickling carbo but in a refined way so not numbing or tiring the tongue too much, smooth and full body. Lovely sweetish caramelly malt middle with soft bready sides, while this overripe fruit esteriness goes on overhead; leads to a dryish yet still very juicy finish, where fermented fruit aspects go hand in hand with sweet grape, lightly tannic grape peel and actual wine must flavours, adding some further tartness but not as much as I was hoping for actually (don’t know how long this beer spent on a wine barrel); fruity and malty sweetness remain the main theme, but there is some lovely tannic woodiness in the end as well as a hint of ’Brettiness’ retronasally, mostly consisting of fermented fruits, but lacking a bit in the ureum- and leather-like effects I came to know and love from some domestic Brettanomyces beers. Ends very juicy, a bit vinous, very slightly alcoholic (warming - not astringent) and pleasantly dryish due to the tannins from grapes and wood, with an earthy twist to it adding complexity, coming from hops hidden behind the curtains yet providing structure - as well as a vague spicy bitter accent all the way at the back. Lots of fruitiness goes down the throat, with soft tannic aspects and juicy maltiness. Very fruity and very enjoyable, juicy beer, indeed feeling very ’Belgian’; under influence of international tendencies, refermenting beers with wild yeast are increasing in Belgium as well, the country that kept Brett alive in times when almost no other country in the world had any breweries deliberately working with them. This is a good example of this international influence; the yeast, also the Brett, clearly comes from a lab rather than an old barrel and somehow this makes a difference in terms of depth and complexity, but the intentions are good and I am confident that bottles like this can only improve with age, considering the long time Brettanomyces requires to come to full development, in ’eating everything’. Should have kept this longer... Anyway: the wine barrel factor is clearly palpable here but remains fairly subtle, and so does the Brett factor, though both are unmistakable. Elegant beer and a nice acquaintance with a brewery I never heard of before, but I would not mind more thorough Bretty effects here. I really need to learn more patience in keeping beers cellared.