Brewmaster's Selection Wild Funky Wit
Brouwerij De Brabandere in Bavikhove, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.65
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Yves Benoit created the Brewmaster’s Selection Wild Funky Wit: a refreshing witbeer. Instead of using yeast for the first fermentation, we use the wild microflora derived from our oak foeders. Due to the complexity of these flora, the beer requires a longer and intense fermentation. The result: the ultimate refreshment with a citrus-sour flavor and taste!
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Brabandere Brewmaster's Selection Wild Funky Wit (by De Brabandere):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-560) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Pretty clear blond to pale yellow beer, small creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sourish, bretty notes, funky indeed! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of brett character, fruity notes, acidic, lemony, sourish, nice stuff! Aftertaste: more acidic, finish, bit funky, lemony, brett, nice one!
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
28/IV/18 - shared @ Zythos Bierfestival 2018 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-560) Thanks to the ratebeer crew for sharing today's beers!
Pretty clear blond to pale yellow beer, small creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sourish, bretty notes, funky indeed! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of brett character, fruity notes, acidic, lemony, sourish, nice stuff! Aftertaste: more acidic, finish, bit funky, lemony, brett, nice one!
Tried
on 28 Apr 2018
at 19:14
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330ml bottle from Vanuxeem. Pours a misty gold, medium foamy white head receding. Aroma of spicy funk, yeasty esters. Taste seems a little lacklustre, under-developed perhaps. Much richer in terms of yeast than expected from a wit, wild elements seem fleeting and drying.. lacks an expected bright, crisp clarity though there is some bristling funk at work. Dunno, just doesn't seem to come together brilliantly, which I guess you have to expect sometimes from this approach.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2018
at 20:21
4/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2018
at 22:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow. Small white head. Aroma is bretty and crisp hoppy. Bitter, citrusy and slight bretty. Mellow. Bretty and citusy. Dry,bitter and slight citric fruity.bretty and dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2017
at 14:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle from Mitra Beukenplein. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma is quite sour, acetic, lots of wood, wheat, sour lemon, light funky. Flavour is sour, acetic, wood, wheat, lemon, light floral, tart finish. Light bodied. Not much Wit left imho, very acetic, but I enjoyed this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2017
at 04:32
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from bottle @ Mitra BeerXperience Oirschot Oirschot. Hazy pale yellow color with a decent sized white head. Smell and taste are both nicely balanced sourish, citrus, brett, light nectarine and pineapple. Quite nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2017
at 08:59
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Flesje gedronken bij tasting Mitra Oirschot. Bleek licht troebel bier. Aroma en smaak is citrusachtig maar waterig. Weinig nasmaak.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2017
at 08:25
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Geproefd op tasting met Roelzie1986, Inoven en Benzai. Het is een troebel geel bier. Het heeft een frisse geur. De smaak is fruitig en zuur.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2017
at 08:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hazy straw yellow colour, good two finger frothy white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Aroma wheat, brett, lemon, buttermilk and light notes. Taste light to medium sweet and sour, wheat, lemon, star fruit, goose berries, mild yoghurt. Mild sweet-and-sour aftertaste, yeasty, light herbal notes. Medium body, sticky texture, soft carbonation, nice dry white wine-like cross-over of wild and wit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2017
at 13:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
The first in this Brewmaster's Selection series, a witbier (probably the Wittekerke recipe) aged on the 'foeders' in which De Brabandere, formerly Bavik, creates its Petrus Oud Bruin and other 'wild' ales. Bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Creamy, 'membranous' lacing, medium thick, eggshell-white, stable head, thinning but still remaining closed for a long time, over a hazy straw blonde beer with olive greenish tinge. Aroma of buttermilk, cheese spread, yoghurt, lemon rind, soap, raw cauliflower (not DMS), pear, zucchini, sweet white grapes, coriander seed, plaster, nectarine, pineapple, white bread, camomile tea, stewed rhubarb. Crisp, fruity onset, sweetish pineapple and pear core with a hint of banana but embedded in a refreshing, soft but 'uplifting', raw rhubarb- and starfruit-like, even slightly lemony sourness; mellow but long lactic tartness, very yoghurty, cuts through the whole beer and lends it a mildly drying effect, balanced by a soft, soapy 'wheatiness' and pleasantly bready 'barleyness'; ends tart and drying, dry white wine-like and yoghurty-lactic, with soapy coriander seed thrown in and accentuating the wheat soapiness, as well as a pleasantly floral, bit camomile-like, softly bittering hoppiness. Interesting way to create a 'wild' or sour ale out of a classically conceived witbier. I like this, now off to find that tripel version, which is the only one I'm still missing now.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2017
at 07:20