Dirty Horse (100% 1983)
(Batch of Dirty Horse)
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
8.43
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Starting with a Lambic grist bill composed of 70% barley malt and 30% unmalted wheat. No yeast was artificially added to the wort, but was exposed for two days to the open air in one of our plastic tunnels at the Noordhoek Ostrich Farm. First fermentation took place in second hand sherry oak casks for six weeks. 200 grams of Northern cherries per litre and the Roeseleire yeast strain were added after six months, provoking a new fermentation process. Eight months later, we pumped over the young ale to oak casks and let it mature for another 3 years. This project was realized after a tasting of the same recipe Urbain once made 20 years ago and was barrel aging in his garage in De Panne eversince and while he was in Africa and forgot all about it. As this is a very limited version, this ale will not be suitable for export but rather for sale at the farm when available.
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9/10
Old tick at Alvinne fest.
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on 30 Apr 2016
at 15:14
10/10
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on 30 Jun 2014
at 10:52
9/10
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on 16 Dec 2013
at 21:23
9/10
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Appearance 8
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Texture 8
Overall 10
Share by urbain . 1983 vintage . 75 cl bottle Pours red / amber / orange . Small foam Smell is earthy . Taste is very complex Old chery , like a fine port , small carbo Very nice , especialy for its age
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from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2013
at 14:48
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
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Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle 99/100. 100% from 1983. Big thanks to Trey and Dan for bringing this gem to the Philly tasting. Cloudy burnt orange pour. Caramel with hints of honey on the nose. Orange, supple honey, with hints of cherry and apple. The body is light and there is all kinds of caramel malts here. Considering this beer is 29 years old, it is FANTASTIC....
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from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2012
at 04:51
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
Imported from my RateBeer account as Struise Dirty Horse (by De Struise Brouwers):
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 10/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 20/20, MyTotalScore: 5/5
5/04/2011 75cl bottle @ Struise Oud Schooltje (2011-135) Thanx to Urbain for sharing the bottle and all the stories!
Note: this was the 1983 (100%) version without cherries.
Clear reddish amber beer, no head. Aroma: sour notes, red berries, wood, touch of smoked dried ham, bretta, moist cellar. MF: little carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity, apple skin, wood, red currants, touch of wild honey, aroma tobacco (non burned), peppery. Aftertaste: lemon, apple skin, more wood tones. Why the maximum score? Because it's impossible to give a beer with this much love a score, because it's incomparable with anything else, because this is a beer that can't be trapped in numbers. Anything less would be an insult to the 28 year old beer.
Aroma: 10/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 10/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 20/20, MyTotalScore: 5/5
5/04/2011 75cl bottle @ Struise Oud Schooltje (2011-135) Thanx to Urbain for sharing the bottle and all the stories!
Note: this was the 1983 (100%) version without cherries.
Clear reddish amber beer, no head. Aroma: sour notes, red berries, wood, touch of smoked dried ham, bretta, moist cellar. MF: little carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity, apple skin, wood, red currants, touch of wild honey, aroma tobacco (non burned), peppery. Aftertaste: lemon, apple skin, more wood tones. Why the maximum score? Because it's impossible to give a beer with this much love a score, because it's incomparable with anything else, because this is a beer that can't be trapped in numbers. Anything less would be an insult to the 28 year old beer.
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from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2011
at 08:06