De Bises

Corked bottle. Amber color. Figs, caramel and citrus in the aroma. Full bodied. Initial figs and citrus flavor, slightly tart. Malty and even bready. Well balanced with a hint of metal in the late finish.

750 ml. bottle sampled / shared with philus & kraddel. Idiosyncratic Vapeur beer with fig leaves & also hops from the brewers garden if I am reading this correctly. Fig leaves, that one is an odd one, sounds like the guy was just growing figs and decided to do something with the waste, I don’t think that one eats or uses fig leaves in anything. Capped & corked bottle. Reddish amber, off-white. Nose is extremely weird, akin to a hugely oxidized old beers, cooked apple, dishwashing liquid, old vegetable oxidation-like notes, I think that my bottle was pretty fresh so I assume that this weird oxidation-like profile comes from the leaves. Taste is sweet apple, dry leaves, overly dry, weird oxidation, vegetable, Kulminator bar atmosphere, plants, bay leaves, oxidized strawberry,… Really dries out your mouth, taste is far too much, weird, excessive, combined with they dry mouth effect, this one is interesting but really hard to stomach, massively plant-like & oxidation-like. Weird as expected.

Bottle shared with Tom. Hazy golden/orange, white foam. Spicy nose with notes of lemon, pepper and coriander. Unbalanced and not easy drinkable. Not very good.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Vapeur de Bises (by Brasserie à Vapeur):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5

1/III/15 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker) @ Lien & David's place - BB: n/a (2015-247)

Little hazy orange beer, creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: malty, bit fruity, some apples, caramel. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, malty, caramel, pretty spicy, slightly sour, some apple skin. Aftertaste: spicy touch, some coriander, bit earthy, fruity.

Celebration ale for the 25th anniversary of this brewery, tasted at a Vilvordia Bierproeffestival years ago, apparently made with fig leaves from the brewer’s garden... Thin, off-white head, misty copper colour. Strange, unique, even somewhat bizarre aroma, cranberry, tulips, dried leaves, candied figs, freshly cut grass, raw rhubarb, sour yoghurt, tomato, passion fruit... Vinous in the mouth, strange and not easy to describe: something fruity and something tart, very ’raw vegetable’-like and herbal, which I suppose comes from those fig leaves, though I am almost reminded of oak leaf lettuce or something of that kind, blood orange, sweetishness, a bit yeasty, tart finish without real bitterness. There is an oud bruin-like quality to it, but in all, this is one of those weird, idiosyncratic Belgians defying classification. I am grateful such beers still exist in this country, though I cannot honestly say I enjoyed this a lot, though I am all for Vapeur. Points for originality, nonetheless. heel eigenaardig, moeilijk te omschrijven, lichtzurig en fruitig, fris, zeer ‘plantaardig’, als verse eikenbladsla, bloedsinaasappel, zoetig, nooit echt bitter wordend, heel in de verte enigszins herinnerend aan oud bruin.

Bottle thanks to beastiefan. Pours a cloudy copper with medium beige head. The aroma is dark fruit, caramel, sugar, yeast. Thin mouth, sweet fruit, caramel, wet biscuit, good.

750 bottle shared by beastie @RBWG-JAX-lt tan-cloudy amber. A-med malt-some sweet, spruce. T-med malt-some sweet, spruce.

Bottle at RBWG. Massively sweet bose. Big caramel. Huge sweet flavor, some metal, leaves. Full bodied with fine cRbonation. Sugary, lightly wRming ripe berry finiah. Meh.