HORAL's Oude Geuze Mega Blend 2015
Brouwerij F. Boon in Lembeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen / Timmermans / Brouwerij Oud Beersel / Brouwerij Lindemans / Brouwerij De Troch / Geuzestekerij De Cam / Hanssens Artisanaal / Gueuzerie TilquinLambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.90
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Color: Clear orange amber, large white head. Still very lively, cork came out with a pop. aroma: Oak wood, hay, fruity, some funk. Taste: Old hop, oak wood, fruity tart apple, hints of zesty citrus fruit and gooseberry, subtle rural funk notes. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Moderate tartness. Light Cognac-like hints. Lively carbonation for this style, especially with this age.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Clear pale golden colour. It's got a rounded chalky taste, very Boon. Quite light and thin. Quite a sharp finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Vintage 2015, consumed July 2015 (Toni calls it child murder). Surprisingly dark orange color with big white head. Aroma is wood, horseblanket funk, ripe apples. Taste is lots of wood and apples, quite a nice rather heavy body, some sweetness, apricots, peaches, good finish, not too acidic. Amazing soft foamy mouthfeel despite a very high carbonation (still very young) Easy sipping and a great Gueuze at the same time. Gotta get some of this to age, incredible how awesome this is already now.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
2015 bottle shared by Johnnnie on 5/20/17. Clear, well-carbonated, bronze-golden with strong copper tints and a white head atop that fades slowly to a ring. I’d be curious to know what the proportions of each blendery’s lambic are used in this. From the nose I get a LOT of leather, cider, light green apple, sweat, mineral and hay-like grains. These things I associate most strongly with Boon, Oud Beersel and to some extent, Lindemans). It doesn’t have the vivacious, bright Brett character of 3F, though of course, there is certainly light Brett in the nose. And nor does it have the stronger lactic acidity I associate with De Cam, Timmermans and Hanssens. Whatever the case, it’s very approachable with a surprisingly large amount of malt character (rich honey, hay, wheat-like cereal) to easily balance the tart, lemony Brett and light lactic sourness. A bit of farm-y character, though it’s more cider and mineral-dominated. No alcohol or flaw. Bright and lemony with light cider on the edges and a good lactic sourness that fails to completely pucker the mouth or strip the enamel. It’s well-balanced showing the aforementioned honey-like malt with even a touch of biscuity wheat. Lots of musty, cellar quality as it warms and breathes. Doesn’t display the sheer force of intense lambic flavor that 3F and Cantillon do, for me, as there’s a lot of, while pleasant, extraneous flavors at work. Slightly bigger body than I’d like, could use just a bit more dryness. Otherwise, very lovely and I’m sure much more approachable than most lambics.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
The Horal Mega Blend from 2015, tasted at six years of age, thanks to Rikkert for lining up every vintage in existence so far - a very interesting tasting indeed. Thick, egg-white, bubbly, opening head, rather large-bubbled and unstable (possibly due to age); initially clear, deep peach blonde robe, turning misty later on. Aroma of old lemon zest, minerals, crabapple, old peanuts, bread crust, apricot kernels, grass silage, rubbery phenolic accents. Crisp, sour onset, lemony with an astringency of wild apple or unripe stonefruit underneath, sharply and very minerally carbonated; bread-crusty core, drying lactic tartness, dried citrus peel and grass silage effects, with tannic woodiness in the end along with ongoing minerality and crisp sourness. More minerally and lemony than the 2017 vintage we had just before this one, even if made according to the same lambic composition - a bit unexpectedly, even.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750ml (thx, Alex M.!) shared with Andrey in Golden Ears enjoying the absence of the rain on the private beach. Vintage 2015. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: nice funk, abit earthy, a bit of barnyard and fruitiness. Taste: along the same lines, nicely balanced with a good body. Overall: good one.
