One of several new Wild Specials by this brewery in Merelbeke near Ghent. From a 75 cl bottle with paper wrap, actually labelled n° 5, but this seems to be merely a different bottling of the same thing (a Flemish red of 7% ABV aged on Bordeaux wine barrels), so I reckoned I could just as well put my rating here; I do think it would be interesting to list them both here and alias them, however, but I'll leave that to the admins. Gusher and quite strongly so. Thinnish, egg-white, mousy ring for a head along with flat 'islands' in the middle, eventually dissolving completely; cloudy amber-tinged bronze-brown robe. Aroma of sour grapes, medlar, sour apples, bread crumbs, redcurrant, red wine vinegar, moist wood, something sulfuric (egg yolk). Estery, indeed 'wild' onset (sic), bit dirty even, with impressions of sharply sour blackberries and redcurrant, medlar and wild apples, fizzily carbonated with very limited sweetness; brown-bready malt base, a tad caramelly and doughy, dried almost completely by sharp lactic sourness, though the 'vinegar sting' I feared for, remains relatively restrained. Some sulfuric and glueish solventy notes towards the end along with ongoing sharp fruity sourness and yeasty earthiness, the first accentuated by a tannic wood effect, though in all, the wood and the Bordeaux remain subordinate to the estery and lactic bacterial effects this beer is impregnated by. A late, earthy hop bitter note shows up at the back too. Not a bad effort at all, all things considered, but lacking a bit in body (ending just a bit too watery), refinement and balance for what is arguably a very difficult style to create; but if this is a first attempt, this series could turn out very promising, provided that it is continued and further finetuned. Curious for the others in this whole series.