Stekelbees. Bardzo fajny, wyrazny i jednoznaczy agrest w posmakach. Poza tym brzoskwinie, ciut lacto, ciut octu, ciut lambikowej skory. Najs

Tap at Luppolo Station (Rome). Misty and deep golden pour, regular and medium white foam. Nose: yellow fruit, white vinegar (soft), peach. Mouth: sourness is charming, starts quite mild and ends a bit peppery and chilly. Nice. The taste is certainly fruity, elegant. The finish is just stunning; clean and super peppery it cleans the mouth and invites to more sips.

Bottle. Arcade Beers, Huddersfield. Hazed, dark straw colour. Attractive, foamy, whipped white head. Nose has a goat’s milk cheese funk. Very oaky and vanilla like. Some zested lemon. Some earthy, dried hop notes. Taste has a sour apple tang. Quite sharp and lemony. There’s some sweetness in there, but it gets dry as it goes along. Light body. Fair amount of acidity. Cleanses the mouth a treat. Slightly too acidic on the finish to make me fancy another, but I did enjoy this one, overall.

Kwasne dzikie octowe brzoskwinie. W uscie az za bardzo kwasne. Charakterne piwo :)

This year’s rendition of Zure Van Tildonk, but the "Van Tildonk" has apparently been abandoned meanwhile, with different (American style) bottles and different label. Bottle from the Prik & Tik in Zele. Very strong gusher, beer flooding out of the bottle neck with quite great force about half a second after opening. Medium thick, very moussy, snow white, lightly lacing head, quickly dissipating in the middle but retaining a moussy rim around the edge, over a warm golden beer with deeper peachy hue, hazy from the start, turning ’milky’ with sediment. Aroma of fermenting plums, gooseberry juice, sharp redcurrant, sourdough, soggy white bread, buttermilk, lemon, dough, stale sweat but subtly so, hay, goat cheese, unripe nectarines, white grape peel, gypsum. Puckering sour onset, unripe stonefruit acidity and wryness but supple and pleasant, with hints of gooseberry, green plum, unripe grape and some lemon, sourness surrounding a softer peachy sweetish hint; sedate lactic acidity forms a yoghurty tartness further drying the mouth, but the sharper fruit acidity lasts all the way as well, while carbonation remains spritzy yet not too sharp for a sour ale; mouthfeel is smooth, lean and a tad creamy underneath the drying sourness, with well-dosed, soft and bready malt sweetishness in its core. Some retronasal ’funkiness’ (fermenting hay, sweat) and increasing breadiness in the finish due to the yeast; I get a very dim echo of earthy hop bitterishness in the tail as well, just enough to provide structural support, but it is the overall fruit sourness (and an amount of fruit peel wryness) that lasts the longest, softening a bit in the end but keeping things utterly crisp and refreshing throughout. A very late ’chalky’ flavor shows up as well. Too bad for the violent gushing which is a major issue here, but other than that, this is a very enjoyable and ’credible’ sour, with a somewhat cleaner and more balanced, less ’dirty’ flavor profile than the last version I had (then still in ’geuze’ bottles and with different label, as "Zure Van Tildonk"), clearly more to the point this time. Nice enough and I feel a bit frustrated now for not having followed this series year to year - this Zure is clearly improving, curious what next year’s rendition will bring.

33cl bottle. Pours hazy pale golden colour with a small white head. Aroma of sour yellow fruits, a bit dry. Taste of tart yellow fruits, hints of tropical fruits, a bit high carbonation, quite nice!

Part of a Belgian tasting at K&L in Redwood City. Hazy yellow and full white head. Fruity esters and slight puckering sourness. Finishes nicely very dry.

Bottle at home. Pours hazy yellow, nose is lime, bready, funky, taste is tart citrus, toffee, yeasty, zesty, dry finish, hint of grapes.