Struiselensis Bourbon BA

Bottle from the Brugge Shop. Lemon nose with yogurt, vanilla, wood, bourbon. Cloudy gold with fine lace. Cream flavor of vanilla, lemon, soft and silky, a bit salty. Very soft and silky body with fine carbonation. Didn’t know if these flavors would work together, but they do.

Personal contribution. 75 cl. bottle sampled @ RBBSG II. Pours murky orange with no head. Smell is mellow tartness, sweet fruits, mellow marmalade, pineapple, fructose, mellow marmalade, caramel sugar,.. Taste is sweet vanilla sugar, nice marmalade bourbon, only light sourness, orange jam, mellow marmalade, pineapples, toffee, light citrus, only very light tartness in the back, small touch bitterness,… Oily, creamy, little carbonation. Really good & very interesting. Just think of this as a unique Barley wine as opposed to a geuze-style beer which the original non-BA batches were. Too different to even compare.

Bottle courtesy of rlgk. Pours hazy pale golden with a rather big creamy offwhite head that leaves some creamy lacing on the glass when dissipate. Smell is sour, malty and fruity with crackers, lemon juice, lemon flavoured yoghurt, moist wood, vanilla fudge, white grapes, lemon zest, bilberry bush leaves, dry pine needles, dry soil, hay and hints of grapefruit juice and barnyard. Taste is very tiny sweet, tiny bitter, sour and malty with white bread, crackers, vanilla, moist wood, lemon juice, white grapes, grapefruit juice, brett, dry pine needles, barnyard, dry soil and hay. Mouthfeel is slightly dry, round, tart and light bodied. Finish is sour and tart with crackers, white bread, lemon juice, white grapes, grapefruit rinds, dry pine needles, moist wood, hay and dry soil. Very balanced, quite thirst-quenching and tasty.

75cl bottle shared with Urbain, merci! Dorée présentant un trouble léger, col blanc. Arôme présente ce bouquet alternant brett, grains et barrique; dans ce cas un chêne aux effluves de Bourbon. Je note un subtile bouquet boisé tirant sur des notes aigres renforcé par un léger ajout vanillé. Palais garde un profil assez belge, blonde solide avec un profil aigre très agréable qui vient juste titiller le fond de la gorge. Le tout est adouci par le mûrissage en barrique de bourbon. Ce dernier ajoute complexité et une pointe de douceur vanillée. Le houblon est présent ajoutant une amertume modeste, cela tournant sur un citronné moyen. Au final, une bière encore un peu jeune, et qui promet de se développer avec le temps. En l’état les brett restent modérés sans dominer le profil de la bière. Le Bourbon arrive juste en balance sans pour cela dominer totalement. Reste à voir comment les des brett et le bourbon évolueront au cours du temps. POur le moment, je voit cette bière plus comme une bière belge avec qcq brett que comme une bière ’sour’. Reste très correte et complexe.

Bottle Pours fuzzy light yellow , small white head That fades fast Smell is pretty damn intresting ! Like a sour bourbon , exactly 50/50 , no side wins on the smell Enters like a soft geuze , than goes to a bourbon . I never drank pure bourbon ( accept jack , wich is , according to some , not even real bourbon ) but for the first time in my life i think i can recognize a brand . Wild turkey . Am i right ? That would ve shocking and awsome ! All trough barrel aged beer lol Anyway , the mouthfeel ( and carbo ) of a geuze , imidiatly bourbon takes ocer , with a good sour background . Than the sourness dissapears almost completely . Wich lambic did they use ? For sure it aint boon( bad relationships between struise and boon ) or cantillon ( very recognisable taste ) . Is this 3 fonteinen / de cam / oud beersel maybe ? Anyway , as expected , extremely intresting , and as always with struise , very freaking nice ! Cheers !