Kempisch Vuur Sour Ale
Pirlot in Zandhoven, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.14
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mike_77 (15884) reviewed Kempisch Vuur Sour Ale from Pirlot 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Light brown colour with thin head. It's a sweet and sour mix. Something of sour-sugar cola bottles. Thin and fizzy. No noticeable aftertaste.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Kempisch Vuur Sour Ale from Pirlot 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Having sensed the renewed attention for sour beers in the beer world – and also in Belgium – Pirlot took on this experiment to create a generic sour ale (American style). Thick and mousy, snow white, quite dense but eventually opening and dissolving head, cloudy ‘dirty’ orange to copper robe with an ochre-beige hue. Aroma of sour apples, sour grape juice, caramel, redcurrant, band aid-like ‘clinical’ phenols, bread crumbs, lemon peel. Sour onset, bit lemony with hints of wild apples and redcurrant berries but all rather subdued and a bit ‘dull’, medium carbonation, slick caramelly and bread crumb-like malt base persistently but monotonously dried by this lactic sourness, with a notably apple-like flavour in the finish, accompanied by a somewhat chalky note (and not hop bitterness to speak of – none expected either). Ends a bit powdery, apple-ish and quite refreshing. Rather simple, thinnish and dull interpretation of a sour especially coming from the one country that kept mixed and spontaneous fermentation alive before the craft beer renaissance – but refreshing and enjoyable all the same.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Kempisch Vuur Sour Ale from Pirlot 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
11/I/20 - 33cl bottle @ home, BB: 24/IV/21 batch: L20180021 (2020-33) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy reddish to orange brown beer, small beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of caramel, some vinegar, malty, grains, cow fodder, ersatz chocolate, little spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very sourish start, vinegar notes, bit fruity. Aftertaste: lemon juice, apple skin, bitter, some tannins, interesting, not bad, but not great either.
DirDec (2086) ticked Kempisch Vuur Sour Ale from Pirlot 7 years ago