Escort Deluxe 2016
Bieren Cabardouche in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Gose Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Fruitsalad (2249) ticked Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Süffiger, dunkel würziger Beginn. Leicht bitter, moderat herb, intensiv. Getreidig säuerlicher Abgang. 10/9/8/9//9
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
The first Belgian Gose, released in 2016 and immediately a 'modern' one with fruit, buckthorn berries to be precise... Far from evident in Belgium, even nowadays. Bottle from Kevin Devos' Beer Shop. Thick and frothy, lightly lacing, egg-white, moussy head, slowly showing gaps in the middle but very well-retaining otherwise; lightly hazy, warm peach-tinged 'old gold' robe. Aroma of pink grapefruit and sourish pomelo flesh, stewed rhubarb, sourdough, Sauerkraut, old bread crust, a vivid, sour apple-like fruitiness mixed with a dried herb aspect which together must represent the buckthorn berries, dried apricots, a salty cheese-like accent, fresh piccalilly somewhere, dusty old coriander seed, hints of caramel candy, withering lettuce, cooked cauliflower, gin and margarine; some very slight, onsetting oxidation is noticeable as it warms up, but anything but bothersome. Crisp, vivid onset, peach and pineapple sweetness but stronger in bright, juicy, citrusy and redcurrant-like sourness, a mixture of buckthorn berry acidity (and astringency) with drying lactic tartness, but relatively softly so; as can be expected from anything labelled as a Gose, a soft, pleasant, 'salted raw vegetable'-like saltiness sits on the sides of the tongue, adding complexity. Carbonation is spritzy and minerally, but not overly sharp, fit for this style; rounded, supple, even little bit creamy mouthfeel. Cleanly bread crust- and lightly caramel-like malt body, sweetish in its nature but dried by the sourness, leading to a juicy, dry, quenching finish in which everything comes together in a balanced, elegant and, in all, fairly gentle way: the buckthorn berry astringency, the malt breadiness and a deep, very vague but structurally important hop bitterish echo, all highlighted by a mild and gentle glow of warming, gin-like alcohol - this is, after all, an 8% ABV beer. Some wheat and coriander soapiness as well, but in a refined, subtle manner. Basically a Belgian tripel turned into something hip and different by adding salt and buckthorn berries, though these ingredients are nowhere mentioned on the label; in any case this is an altogether different brew than the average Belgian consumer is used to, I must admit that I love this brewery's bold approach. Technically well executed by Anders as well, making for an idiosyncratic, pleasant, well-balanced and multi-sided ale - which, with a certain amount of imagination, can indeed provoke images of the seaside in late summer, as is suggested on the label. I especially appreciate the balance that has been sought and found between sour, sweet and salty, with a pinch of mild bitterishness to it. Nice surprise, glad I ticked this one.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. A almost clear pale dark golden beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of orange fruits, Zest . Taste of soft tart orange fruits, lemon fruits.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bieren Cabardouche Escort Deluxe 2016 (by Bieren Cabardouche):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
25/VII/17 - 33cl bottle from ... I forgot @ holidays - BB: n/a, bottled: XI/2016 (2017-1125)
Clear blond beer, solid creamy irregular off-white head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty funky, chlorine, bit dirty, sourish touch. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sourish, funky, lemony, bitter, some tannins, fruity notes. Aftertaste: bit salty, lemony, quite some tannins, bitter, dry sour berries, very interesting!
Travlr (30173) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Billie’s. Clear golden color. Herbal aroma. Taste is earthy almost salty. One of the best Belgian goses I’ve had.
77ships (14506) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
[330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar][During launching event][Bottled Nov. 2016] Quite strong for a Gose at 8 % ABV. Hazy orange, collapsing white head. Nose is milky lactic egg-whites almost vegetable lactic, decent amount of salt. Taste is milky sour, yoghurt, egg-white salty almost vegetable sour-like, lactic, raw, quite salty, big lactic zest, close to overly salty but it luckily it doesn’t go there. Salty, lactic milk body. Bit raw in the sour department, veering towards almost too salty but quite there yet. I added the yeast, didn’t change much of the taste despite recommendations, opinions of others. Happy to see a new generation Belgian brewer veering into for us highly unusual style territory. I applaud more style variation in the Belgian beer scene.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2016 from Bieren Cabardouche 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Alert ! Pour WITH yeast. The beer is way much better with than without. Without yeast, the beer Pours very clear blonde, with a rather sweet Smell over a mild sourness. The Taste is too sweet, candy- necklaces pop in mind. Very mild sourness, no real maltyness. With the yeast however, the beer is cloudy. The scent is mildly sour. Taste is much and much more intense, salty, sour. Bit dry. The necklaces Candy -taste isn’t really there anymore. A very Nice gose, unlike the no-yeast glass that missed the features a real gose needed. This score is ment for the glass with yeast.