Vaccin 4.0
Brouwerij Alvinne in Moen, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Series|
Score
7.47
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tricksta_p (13664) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Slijterij Groningen. Aroma is tart berries, orange, red fruits, notes of coffee and chocolate, malt. Flavour is tart and moderate to medium sour with a little sweetness. Body is medium. Tart and fruity with the malt and coffee on the background. Nice.
CraftBeerNick (11005) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 2 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home, 28th January 24. Only Vaccin I’ll be taking along with the other in the series! This one was a huge gusher, luckily in the kitchen, whilst I was cooking roast beef, lost a bit on the counter. It settled to reveal a chestnut brown sour, almost clear, dirty tan head with yeast in it. Aroma is wood, oranges, tart, even the coffee is present. Taste is indeed an infusion of tart oranges, bitter marmalade and coffee beans, tart and bitter marmalade finish. Very interesting
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
31/VII/22 - 33cl bottle from Geers, shared @ France Holiday, BB: ##/2022, lot: 1132 (2022-961)
Pretty clear deep red brown to maroon beer, creamy dense beige head, a bit adhesive. Aroma: oranges, blood oranges, gentle roast, some coffee indeed, maybe more green coffee than a dark roast. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: blackberries, oranges, orange peel, bitter, gentle roast, a bit oxidized. Aftertaste: very sour, some alcohol, a hint of vinegar, little bitter, nice, hint of dark chocolate, more orange peel, bitter oranges, alcohol burn, decent but not my favourite.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Flaska från Etre. Skummar ur flaskan men lugnar sig efter några cl. Mahognyfärgad vätska. Mjukt syrlig, blodapelsinsyltig, bär, fat, trä, balsamico, komplex och mycket njutbar och relativt drickvänlig för att komma från Alvinne. Mycket gott.
Davros (5279) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours brown with a small lasting head.Nose shows soft coffee, berries, funky oak, cocoa, red wine notes. Phwoar!Flavours include orange, coffee, a gentle but reasonable acidity, red berries and woody oak.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Pressklubben. Reddish/brown with a medium head. Medium sour with notes of coffee, malt, fruit and some wood. A decent one.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 5 years ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
The fourth in a series of so-called “vaccines” against Covid-19 ironically produced by Alvinne – basically an excuse to let themselves go in a bunch of experiments again, and in the absence of an actual vaccine against the virus, I am thankful we have this series. This one is an ‘oud bruin’ flavoured with blood orange and coffee, unlikely ingredients in sour ales perhaps, but I was confident Alvinne can pull this off before even opening the bottle. Pale creamy, off-white, dense, tightly plaster-like lacing, very stable head on a misty mahogany brown beer with warmer ruddy-vermillion tinge; cloudy with sediment. Aroma of indeed sweet-perfumey and bright-citrusy blood orange, elegantly hovering over a complex of blackberries, balsamico, red wine vinegar, sour cream, wet old oak wood, fresh redcurrants, brown bread, sawdust, some caramel and only the faintest background trace of coffee powder buried under all that complexity. Crisp onset, tart but in a gently drying, juicy way rather than being harshly acidic; sour apple, plum and blackcurrant esteriness gets soaked in a bright, lively, juicy blood orange presence. Fizzy carb, smooth body, lovely hard-caramelly and brown-bready malt core with a nutty edge, full and gently but consistently dried by Morpheus yeast lactic sourness and more vibrant fruity blood orange sourness. Once these two trails of sourness meet and get mixed in with the malts and the tannins from the oak wood, a more balsamic-like impression sets in, or extremely dry (and old) red wine at least; only in the very tail of the beer, when all this Alvinne sour ale complexity is fully developed, a tone of bittering, vaguely aromatic coffee appears, initially clashing a bit with the inherent sweetness of the malts and the overall tartness of the beer, but becoming a more agreeable, interesting twist as you get more used to it. I am left impressed – not the first time with Alvinne, on the contrary even, but this is truly beautiful: it is sour like any barrelled Alvinne with Morpheus yeast, but in a non-puckering, very drinkable, ‘noble’ and yet still powerful way, and the two added ingredients, seemingly incompatible with each other and with the whole base at first sight, get their fixed place and position, one upfront and the other all the way at the back – and, remarkably, stay there at all times, so that they never get in each other’s way. Absolutely beautiful – for the time being, I am as happy with this one as I would be with an actual Covid-19 vaccine.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark reddish brown colour, beige foam. Nose of red wine, citrussy, balsamic vinegar, sour cherries and some bready notes. Complex and very well balanced. Tart, sweet and bitter. Great.
Basementonline (12540) ticked Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 5 years ago
MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Vaccin 4.0 from Brouwerij Alvinne 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Brown amber pour. Aroma of sour orange, tart, caramel, malt and yeast. Taste has tart grapefruit, orange, yeast, muddy caramel, malt and a little cherry. Don't get any coffee, feels unfinished.