Brett and Oak
Brouwerij Anders! in Halen, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.75
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Wine barrel aged beer refermented with some or other Brettanomyces strain. Apparently one of very few beers Anders has made in their own account, but for a very specific occasion, namely the Zythos Beer Festival of 2015 - where it was served young and fresh, whereas Brett notoriously needs more time to unveil its full potential, since this yeast genus consumes larger sugar molecules but at a slower pace, thus releasing its fermentation by-products (responsible for aromas and flavor) at a later stage - see aged Orval and the like. Bottled in April 2015, I think this must have gained some degree of maturity by now - curious to find out. Quite a lot of pressure on the bottle, but no gushing. Very thick and frothy, egg-white, densely structured head leaving a thick membrane of lacing around the glass, crowning a pale straw blonde beer with ’old gold’ hue, sparkling quite vividly through a disparate haze of pale, minute yeast bits distributed throughout, turning it fully cloudy and deeper ochre-ish blonde with sediment completely added. Nose unambiguously betrays Brett with impressions of moldy lemon, fermenting white grapes and peaches, some stale urine (but fitting in very well - something only beer aficionados like all of us here will understand, but seems difficult to justify to non-beer people), whipped sour cream, moist hay, next to mandarin flesh, gooseberry, overripe pear, soggy white bread, cooked turnip, ripe banana, dried camomile flowers, honeydew, clear wet oak wood including something vanilla-ish, Riesling, ripe yellow plum, dust. Spritzy, estery onset, lots of fizz but in a refined, finely minerally, almost lambrusco-like way so not numbing at all, lots of fruits tumbling over each other: ripe gooseberry, peach, pear, red apple, sweet white grape, raw pineapple, some banana here and there, in all softly but crisply sourish with a sweetish core. Supple, smooth body, pleasantly honeyish malt sweetish touch, bready and soft in the middle, forming a well-equipped backbone for the display of fruity esters which, in all, behave very well and never descend into chaotic ’dirtiness’ even with all the sediment from the bottom of the bottle poured into the glass. Crisp and very mildly sourish finish with this ongoing malt sweetness underneath, along with retronasal leathery and hayish Brett effects, an earthy hop bitterish accent not interfering too much, and a touch of warming, but in all very well hidden alcohol; as in most wine barrel aged beers, the actual - tart - wine flavor shows up only in the very end, upon and during swallowing, adding complexity. Bready yeast accents show up especially in the end when the sediment is added - logically - and the wood effect, though very clearly noticeable in a subtle retronasal ’oaky vanilla’ accent and a fairly tannin-rich dryness in the finish, remains fairly restrained. In general, this is basically a classic Belgian tripel aged on wine barrels and ’Bretted’ - resulting in a refined, crisp and refreshing ’apéritif’ beer (though perhaps a bit on the strong side for that); it is very clear that the Brett, as usual, took time to develop, and this one and a half year of ageing must have done this beer good (I did not have it young). It has all the typical funky Brett properties in a noble and elegant way, matching well with the tartness established by the burgundy barrels; a ’wild’ but still very accessible, dainty, pleasant Belgian ale indeed. Probably harbors great cellaring potential - I would not mind retrying this after, say, five years of age, if only to see if this parallels the interesting ageing process seen in other ’Bretted’ ales.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Hazy yellow. Aroma is very funky. Flavour has woody dryness. Light sourness. Warming. Has notes of honey running throughout.
Joren Monnens (3488) ticked Brett & Oak 2015 from Brouwerij Anders! 9 years ago
SVD (7089) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sample at Zythos 2015, blond beer, fruit aroma, taste is fruity, sweet, hitn of sourness, meh
yespr (55607) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, toasted, citrusy and slight grassy. Sweet fruity and slight citric finish.
Benzai (24278) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ ZBF 15. Slightly hazy pale yellow color, average sized white head. Smell and taste wheat, brett, orangepeel. Average body and carbonation. Ok beer.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
At ZBF 15. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours unclear yellow, very small white head. Smell is bit sharp. Some sweetness. Taste is sharp, bit bitter. Mild honey, bit oak. Brett is hidden, but gives a tad more complexity.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Anders Brett and Oak (by Brouwerij Anders!):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5
26/IV/15 - 33cl bottle @ day 2 of ZBF 2015 (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2015-530)
Clear light orange beer, creamy irregular head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very sourish, fruity, spicy, bit funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit metallic, sourish, funky, spicy, bit hoppy, citrus. Aftertaste: very bitter, fruity, some peaches, bit acidic. Nice, but I'd give the brett some more time.
beerhunter111 (50413) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled @ Zyhos Bierfestival 2015 Trübe strohgelbe Farbe, wenig weißer Schaum. Geruch leicht säuerlich, holzig, süß. Geschmack leicht süßlich, holzig, Kraut.
Koelschtrinker (42161) reviewed Brett and Oak from Brouwerij Anders! 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hell säuerlicher Antrunk, wenig fruchtig. Hefig bitter, mild, minimal alkoholisch, konstante Säuerlichkeit. Gut. 10/11/11/11//11