Vieille Provision
Brouwerij De Ranke in Dottignies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Unblended Regular|
Score
7.72
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Vieille Provision is a preservation beer, made from a selection of the best barrels of aged beer in our brewery. The beer is the base for Cuvée De Ranke and Kriek De Ranke and has aged at least one year on oak barrels.
Taste: The beer has a soft tartness with the subtle aroma of wood.
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7/10
Fajnie dzikawe sianowato, nieco owocowe, ciut octowe, w sumie dosc grzexzne i chlalne. Taniczne. Z minusikiem
Tried
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 17 Nov 2018
at 22:14
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a flat clear pale brown color ale with no head. Aroma of oak and light cherry notes with some sour notes is OK. Taste is a mix of oak and cherry with stale sour notes. Body is light with no carbonation. I don’t get the fuss about that one; the limited carbonation and the sourness and acidity didn’t really mesh well together.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2018
at 21:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours with no head on a dark amber coloured still body. Dry oaky aroma. Medium bodied, sharp 9n the palate with a clean dry finish. Dry white wine, grape, citrus, oak & woody tastes. Excellent choice
Tried
on 14 Nov 2018
at 19:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Pours amber with almost no head.Nose shows funk, lemon, elderflower, orange peel.FLavours include a reasonable acidity, lemon, horseblanket and a soft sweetness underneath.Almost no carbonation.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2018
at 00:30
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
Bottle in garden, rate #3500, 5th August 18. Pours a honey colour, no carbo or head to speak of. Aroma is funk, sour fruit, barrel, wood. Taste is tart Apple, wood, barrel, vinous, complex, balsamic. Totally gorgeous beer, as expected from De Ranke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2018
at 16:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Color: Amber to copper, very thin white head. Aroma: Sourish, Brett, overripe apples. Taste: Nicely balanced in between moderate to medium sweet and sour taste. Notes of wood and farm barnyard like Brett yeast. Slightly over medium body, below average carbonation. Notes of lemon, yellow fruit, ripe apples. Very nice, complex and very well balanced. Refreshing.
Edit 16th august 2025. Bottle, 2020 edition. Color: Slightly hazy golden, very thin white head. Aroma: Fruity, funky. Taste: Moderate tartness combined with light sweetness. Funky, oak wood, fruity citrus and sweet and sour apples. Nice ageing.
Edit 16th august 2025. Bottle, 2020 edition. Color: Slightly hazy golden, very thin white head. Aroma: Fruity, funky. Taste: Moderate tartness combined with light sweetness. Funky, oak wood, fruity citrus and sweet and sour apples. Nice ageing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2018
at 15:21
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Shelton Festival. Pours a hazy gold with medium white head that lasts. The aroma is oak, citrus, some funk. Thin body, grass, citrus, light funk, nice tartness, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2018
at 01:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 75 cl, shared with Gunnar. Orange, hazy with a white head. A fruit and citrus aroma. Sour taste with a fruit end, ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2018
at 20:22
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Glowing amber with a white head that's very soon at the rim. Aroma is funky with damp laundry, flowers, apricots and their stones, a little bread crust. Slippery, almost flat. Brooding mellow sourness with apricots, plums and overripe gooseberries, apples. Woody and pitty notes grip towards the fairly dry finish. Makes you feel alive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2018
at 13:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Beer Merchants. It pours hazy orange - amber with a bubbly white head. The aroma is earth, musty, funky, barnyard, gooseberry, white grape, white currant, lactic, vinous, oak, vanilla and gooseberry fool. The taste is dry, bitter, oily, gooseberry, white grape, vinous, barnyard, oaky, lemon sherbet, lactic, pickled onion crisps, limey, dull astringency, kick of acidity and loads of dry funk. Medium and soft carbonation. Good depth of flavour. Fun.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2018
at 15:13