Sour Stout
Brouwerij Broers in Wachtebeke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Sour Regular|
Score
6.91
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Beperkte oplage van 200 flessen.
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Sour Stout from Brouwerij Broers 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Broers' imperial stout (previously called Zwarte Ruiter) in a special form, limited to 200 bottles of 75 cl only; apparently a blend of the fresh, regular one with an older one that had been 'soured' on kegs for two years. Knowing this brewery's company policy, there is no doubt in my mind that they had an infected batch of this Zwarte Ruiter, but decided to blend and sell it anyway because whatever we make, it will sell anyway. Thanks to tderoeck for sharing this rarity. Pale greyish beige, irregular, bubbly, opening head on a blackish beer with misty mahogany hue. Aroma of blackberries, balsamic vinegar, unripe blue plums, old moldy walnuts, dry forest floor, old tea bags, coffee grounds, chlorine, hard caramel, sour milk, old oxidized sherry. Tart onset, blackberry-like with additional hints of green apple and blue plum, with a sweetish, fig-like core; softish carb, smooth walnutty and hard-caramelly maltiness with a light bitter chocolate effect, but too light to justify the 'stout' claim in this case; vinous tartness continuing till the end, also when a coffeeish roasted bitterness sets in. Ends herbal and very earthy, brown-bready and leafy, with eventually quite some yeasty 'dirtiness'. Better than expected to be fair, a typical example of a 'happy accident' I would argue, but in all more an 'oud bruin' than a true sour stout.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Sour Stout from Brouwerij Broers 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
19/VII/20 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a (2020-663)
Clear dark brown to black beer, small irregular beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of brett, some lambic, soft roast, funky, horse blanket, fruity notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft acidity, pretty bitter, bit chemical, dry, blackberries, bitter touch, some tannins. Aftertaste: soft roast, pretty astringent, more blackberries, very bitter, some coffee, sourish, acidic, fruity.