Flower Sour
't Hofbrouwerijke in Beerzel, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.07
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Alengrin (11675) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Started gushing quite violently one second after opening. Egg-white, loosely structured, airy head, quickly reduced to a thin moussy rim around the glass and not much else; hazy orange blonde robe with deep amber hue and strings of fizz here and there. Quite powerful aroma of gooseberry, peach, orange peel, ginger, fermenting hay, wet leather, dried cranberries, vaguely honeyish camomile (effectively used), bread crumbs, moldy walnuts, sour apples, home-made herbal tea (I guess this is the heather), wormwood (or indeed bitter dandelion juice?), soap (perhaps the lavender - but in a subtle way, I do not get much explicit lavender aroma, actually). Crisp, estery, vivid onset, lots of sour crabapple, unripe plum and redcurrant, berry-like sourness with a sweetish, peachy core, mildly tingling carbonation, smooth and somewhat oily mouthfeel. This lively fruitiness persists over a caramelly and slightly nutty malt sweet middle phase, with the soft but nevertheless crisp acidity gently drying the palate. Something leathery retronasally (Brettanomyces!) along with aromatic herbal and floral notes, but again, the different herbs are hard to distinguish and remain interwoven with both each other and the estery profile of the beer itself; I guess camomile and heather are recognizable as something honeyish and the lavender yields a subtle soapy accent, with the dandelion providing a light rooty wryness in the end, paired with an earthy, spicy hop bitterish touch; bready yeastiness follows too along with juicy malt sweetness. Somewhat unusual spice beer, with the sourness fitting in well, but the four herbs used are a bit lost into the whole - which is, perhaps, not a bad thing, as many spice beers are drowned in an overkill of spiciness while this one retains only a moderately spicy character integrated in a Belgian ’wild’ (Brett) ale. Still, I did expect a more outspoken floral and herbal character. In all, not an unpleasant beer to my palate, refreshing and tasty, but technically not quite alright considering the gushing.
DerPhilynck (3863) ticked Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
yespr (55573) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity, citric and wineous. Fruity, citric. Lingering and smooth fruity. Dry and citric finish. Lasting fruity into the far finish.
Joren Monnens (3486) ticked Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Trübes dunkel orange goldenes Bier mit geringen leicht beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch süß fruchtig, floral. Geschmack süß fruchtig, rote Früchte, leicht säuerlich.
SinH4 (15514) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy dark orange color with white head. Aroma is tart cherries, yoghurt, quite funky. Taste is sweet, phenolic-boozy tart cherry, oily mouthfeel, near-flat. Warming finish. Not bad, but not too good either.
beastiefan2k (4725) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
I should have checked the ratings first, good thing it was only only a 4oz draft at Beer Junction. Just baddddd. Rotten fruit that happens to be tart, dusty and weirdly sticky and sweet malts. Didn’t really want to drink more to get better descriptors.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Immediate gushng upon opening gets rid of a small glass worth of beer. Despite the relentless foambuilding, hardly any head in the glass... ominous. Fully hazy amber beer. Sour nose with clear lavender, acids, citrus. Some other strange aroma that I tend to correlate to the heather. Sour, with a resiny background (again the heather?). Lavender retronasal up in force. Bitterness - probably more the dandelion than hops. Light body, acidthinning and -burn. Let’s say it are the flowers that make it Interesting, rather than the other dread I-word.
DSG (25989) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle sample at a Beer And Beyon,d sour beers tasting at their shop. Muddy orange-amber with small dark floaties and almost no head. Floral spiciness aroma with lots of lavender, somewhat soapy, and a funky note. Sour funky flavor with fruits and big floral spiciness. Medium-bodied. Way too spicy for my liking.
caesar (10841) reviewed Flower Sour from 't Hofbrouwerijke 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled @ de Molen, small sample. Hazy orange color, quickly disappearing frothy head. Aroma is very flowery, fly-paper, toilet-refreshener (is that a word?), bit spicy like ’ontbijtkoek’, hint of cinnamon. Soft sour taste, bit bitter. Weird brew. Im not a fan of big flowery aroma’s (unless they are in a hoppy way) and certainly not together with spicy and sour stuff. Still, it’s not that bad actually, though a bit messy.