Green Walnut
(has 4 batches)
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.46
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“Green Walnut” is a surprising and innovative Lambic beer of Oud Beersel. For the production of the Green Walnut real fruit is used, in the same way as for the Oude Kriek of Oud Beersel.
In July the still green walnuts are gathered in the Oud Beersel orchard and are added to the Lambic beer that matured in wooden wine barrels.
After the bottle fermentation this sparkling walnut Lambic of Oud Beersel is called Green Walnut, which is a strong companion for blue-veined cheese, dried ham and salads with nuts.
The green walnuts macerate in the Lambic beer enabling them to unfold their taste and flavour. The initial bitterness which is extracted from the walnuts is tempered during the ripening of the walnut Lambic. This results in a delicate balance between the light sourness of the Lambic beer and the bitterness of the green walnuts. The wooden wine barrels provide a subtle touch of red fruits to the beer.
In July the still green walnuts are gathered in the Oud Beersel orchard and are added to the Lambic beer that matured in wooden wine barrels.
After the bottle fermentation this sparkling walnut Lambic of Oud Beersel is called Green Walnut, which is a strong companion for blue-veined cheese, dried ham and salads with nuts.
The green walnuts macerate in the Lambic beer enabling them to unfold their taste and flavour. The initial bitterness which is extracted from the walnuts is tempered during the ripening of the walnut Lambic. This results in a delicate balance between the light sourness of the Lambic beer and the bitterness of the green walnuts. The wooden wine barrels provide a subtle touch of red fruits to the beer.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Interesting lambic novelty from Oud Beersel, with a flaky, egg-white, thin and unstable head and cloudy, strange khaki colour. Estery and funky lambic aroma with green plums, gooseberries, old sherry, lemon peel, wet hay, wood and indeed the somewhat astringent smell of unripe walnuts, well-integrated in the overall lambic profile. Very estery lambic taste, spritzy at first with a soft lactic acidity more than sharp vinegar acidity, drying, sherryish, ’horseblanket’ funkiness, long dry and tart finish with deeply buried old hops bitterishness like in Oud Beersel’s geuze and a wryness of unripe walnuts built into the whole. Good idea indeed, with the walnuts adding a nutty astringency and a weird but fascinating greenish hue to the colour. Altogether very different from the usual fruit lambics, that much is clear...
Tried
on 30 Aug 2015
at 10:32
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Head gone in secs; fully cloudy, fine-bubbled golden-mustard colour. Nice sourish lemon, barnyard and leather aromas. Lots of lambic, barnyard flavours, but the nuts manifest themselves only by a serious tannine dose; bit of sulphur. Light body, but very slick - probably more than with usual lambics. Good try - but I think prime Nocino needs more nuts...
Tried
on 09 Aug 2015
at 01:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 10
Thnx to Wangsnap. Pours darker blonde, OK white head. Smell is funky, bitter, bit tart . Taste is bit dry, mildly sour, slightly bitter. The actual nuts are not present in the flavor, but the green surroundings of it are def recognizable from the scent you get of those. Got a nice, earthy-green-complex background. Nice body and MF. Another nice one from Gert&co
Tried
on 28 Jul 2015
at 10:36
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle sampled thanks to Geus. Pours near clear golden with an off white head. Aroma shows off the walnut characters upfront with a nice woodiness, light soft cellar funk, light citrus and cobweb notes. Flavour is light moderate sour. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation. The walnut really adds an interesting aspect on a decent Gueuze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2015
at 08:45