Zeuren Oap
Brouwerij Benoit in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.35
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Zeuren Oap from Brouwerij Benoit 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Attempt at ‘oud bruin’ by this young microbrewery in Kortrijk in Western Flanders, thanks tderoeck for sharing. Medium thick, quickly opening, pale beige head, leaving a thin ring and a thin veil in the middle, over an initially clear, deep brownish-copper-hued dark amber beer. Aroma strongly oxidized (rusty iron, very old sherry), hard caramel candy, rosehip, dry tea bags, cranberries, brown sugar, medlar, old red wine vinegar hint, elderberry juice. Only mildly and thinly sour, elderberry- and cranberry-ish again with pear-like sweetness as well, actually more prominent than the sourness, which remains a thin layer of lactic tartness superficially lying on top of a smooth, hard-caramelly and slightly toffeeish malt base which very obviously shows signs of oxidation. Only very softly dryish in then end with still a lot of caramelly sweetness, fading away without leaving behind a lasting impression… Poor attempt at this style, completely lacking in the depth, maturity and complexity a good ‘Flemish red’ can have – feels like Zulte in its latest Alken-Maes years, or something alike. Too bad, Benoit has proven that they can do better than this – in non-sour styles at least.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Zeuren Oap from Brouwerij Benoit 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
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11/VII/20 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: XII/2020 (2020-620) Thanks to Jerre for the trade!
Clear deep ruby to red-brown beer, small aery head, beige, irregular unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very oxidized, some dried fruits, caramel, bit fruity, dusty, acidic impression, soft roast, alcohol, some vanilla. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, lots of caramel, very oxidized, bit sugary, hint of dried fruits, not bad, not great. Aftertaste: sugary, caramel, very oxidized, malty, dusty, oxidized, meh.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Zeuren Oap from Brouwerij Benoit 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
10/06/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Clear brown, off white lacing at sides of the glass. Nose is caramel, cherries, dark malts, sour touch. Taste is soft sour cherries, dark malts, bit vanilla, sweet caramel ending. One of the weirdest beers I had lately. Don’t know what to think of it. I seems more like a mix of all sorts of things for me.but at least they tried to do something different what I appreciate from a new brewery, more than a new mediocre beer of one in a million so points for at least trying. It has taste and aroma, it's not bad at least but the mix feels a bit weird.