Auguste
Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij 't VerzetSour / Wild Beer Regular
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Score
7.29
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear golden beer with a white head. Aroma of sour grapes, herbs, pale malt. Taste of sour pale malt, white grapes, brett.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Head reduced to rim in seconds over clear copperish beer. Woody nose, dry, old barrels, split wood, dried apples. Sweet - dry - spicy. Hints in the background first of Oud Bruin, without the caramel. Oud Bruin characteristics increase exponentially during sampling. Mild lactic acid, again something of dried apples. Tart, light body, but slight slickness. Low carbonation. Excellent in the line of other aged pale... vintage... you know. Thanks to Stef!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Blonde sour ale from a ‘bierfirma’ originally dedicated to resurrecting an old brand of a local Belgian ale – then, likely inspired by ‘t Verzet where they brew their beer, making a turn towards the experimental and modern craft beer idiom, much to my surprise. I remember the wine barrel aged version of this ‘Auguste’ as being little less than stellar, so I was looking forward to trying the regular. Slow gusher, but manageable with sufficient time and care. Egg-white, mousy, opening head lacing in dots over a misty, deep and warm orange-tinged peach blonde beer. Aroma of moldy oranges, sour grapes, Bretty ‘stale urine’, crabapple, ripe melon, dry white wine, gooseberries, hints of lime, green pear, dough and raw leek. Sweet-and-sour onet, grapey with purple gooseberry and sour apple impressions but a sweet melon hint too as well as some green apple acetaldehyde, fizzy carbonation, lactic acidity throughout, gently drying a soft, sweetish bready malt ‘underground’ with a slight caramelly edge; long, vinous finish, white wine and gooseberry aspects strongly lingering along with that green apple note. Some lemony sourness, but in all remaining soft, clean, well-balanced and accessible for this style, this is surprisingly decent, brightly fruity and very well executed, though lacking a bit in depth. Nevertheless a great start for what is hopefully a new sour ale project in Flanders – I’ve seen much poorer starters in that field than this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
25cl bottle, many thanks JefVerstraete for this! Pours misty gold, white frothy head. Confident bretty nose. Taste is brett-forward, sharp, sour with funk, vinegar, funky yoghurt, lactic, complex super brigh brett with lots of wild flourishes.. excellent sharp flavoursome bretty pale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from LDW, Eke. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Tart nose of lemon, milky sourness, wood. Taste is tart, lemony, complex, some yoghurt notes. Very refreshing and interesting!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
01/06/2019 - tasting glass @Brouwers in het Bos, Ename. Cloudy straw yellow, small lacing at sides of the glass, nose is sour, green apple, bit lemon, wild yeast. Taste is grains, lemon, green apple, sour, fresh!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Petre Devos Auguste (by Petre Devos Audenaerde bvba):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
28/IV/19 - sample @ Zythos Bierfestival 2019 (Leuven), BB: n/a - (2019-600) Thanks to Nathanvc, 77ships & Anke for sharing today's beers!
Clear orange beer, creamy white head, stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: oh boy, that's not good. Lots of vinegar hitting my nose from the start, very funky, acidic, sharp. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, quite some vinegar, sharp acidity. Aftertaste: very sour, more vinegar, too one dimensional and sharp.