Cydonia Barocca
De Wilde Brouwers in Merelbeke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
6.65
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Brewed for Ghent Baroque Music Festival
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beerhunter111 (50837) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
A clear golden beer with a white lacing. Aroma of quince, some herbs. Taste of pale malt some quince, grains, easy to drink.
Koelschtrinker (42759) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Milder, fruchtig hefiger Beginn. Hellmalzig, moderat herb, relativ süffig. Mittellanger Abgang. 10/9/10/8/5/8
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 11 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Good, rather dense, just off-white head over quite carbonated clear amber beer. Very perfumey, bit pharmaceutical, even sparadrap. White berries. Again sparadrap (Band aid), pharmaceutical. Not even very fruity. Faint caramel, maybe some fruitsugars. Liquorice in the aftertaste. Slick, even a tad sticky, good carbonation. Medium bodied at least. Disappointing, certainly seen what Wilde Brouwers have done before. There is a slight if persistent off-flavour, and nothing to cover it. I did put on JSB, and even Graupner, but that didn't help... Txs to Stef!
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from supermarket MAENHOUT in Oostende. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: deep gold, light hazy. A: malty, bready, caramel, red apples peels, coriander, toast. T: medium to full malty base, bit bready, caramel, red apples, pears, peach, bit herbal, dry on the palate, medium carbonation, enjoyable beer.
jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy blond colour, white creamy foam. Nose of honey, some citrus. Sweet, fruity with medium bitter finish. Interesting and very easy drinkable.
Lameth (4904) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep golden color and a nice white head. Malty, caramel nose. Taste is grainy-malty, yeasty, toffee with a citric twist.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Tripel flavoured with quince (Cydonia oblonga in scientific terms), commissioned by Cydonia Barocca, a baroque music ensemble in Ghent. To be paired with music (as is sometimes recommended in present-day beer culture), specifically baroque music, and even more specifically Bach, Telemann or Graupner - the latter being very obscure, but taking this wonderful, refreshing and quite unique recommendation to heart, let me put on Bach's Wohltemperierte Klavier (performed by Sviatoslav Richter in 1969). With both Bach's and Telemann's output in mind, even ignoring all those other wonderful baroque composers, a few thousand of these Cydonia beer variations would not be sufficient, but anyway... Medium thick, snow white, moussy, small-bubbled, sparsely lacing, stable head on an initially clear, deep 'old gold' beer with 'metallic' orangey tinge and lively sparkling throughout, becoming misty with a slight khaki tinge after adding the sediment. Aroma indeed instantly revealing quince, a mixture between green apple and Conference pear in this case, coriander seed, ripe red apple peel, white bread crust, clove, homemade plum wine accent, medium dry sherry hint, vague notes of 'appeljenever', dried apricot, iron pipes, dried lemonbalm leaves, dry kitchen cloth, cotton, dry earth. Fruity onset in a more or less restrained way, slightly astringent quince effect (reminiscent of green apple or unripe pear with a tad more astringency somewhere), unripe peach and green banana accents, lively carbonated but not overly harsh, smooth and moderately 'full' body, very slick, a bit resinous even; cereally malt body with very light caramelly edges, ongoing 'green apple' fruitiness (sweetish and sourish) from the quince, a pinch of soapy coriander seed but fortunately not overdone, evolving into a gently warming finish in which a floral hop bitter accent appears, lasting quite long while coriander and that 'hard green fruit' quince effect continue - eventually all warmed up by a 'jenever'-like alcohol glow. An all too obvious metallic effect 'zings' along the edges, while sweetness lingers, but in a clean, non-sticky way, along with that floral hop bitterness; a more astringent green fruit touch, if subtly so, travels along down the throat as well. I wish (many) more beers would give specific musical recommendations like this - in fact the label did remind me of Graupner, whose music was very little known to me so far. Needless to say, the Wohltemperierte Klavier I put on lasted much longer than even the memory of this beer, which is, all things considered, just another 'easy-flavoured' tripel with a careful fruity twist to it; that said, the quince fruitiness is omnipresent and subtle at the same time, comparable with a quince saison I had from Broers (not that far removed from Wilde Brouwers geographically) a few years ago. Too metallic, unfathomably more boring than the music it associates itself with, easily smooth and many times more accessible than Telemann's countless concertos - this beer does not live up to its own associations for me, but I am a sucker for baroque music and a harsh critic when it comes to beer, so do not take my review here too seriously, just enjoy the baroque masters and have a sip of a beer which is altogether quite unusual thanks to this old and inaccessible species of fruit. My grandmother's garden, always an important guideline for me when it comes to olfactory memories, springs to mind once again - but not her homemade quince jam, which, from what I recall, was way sweeter than this somewhat astringent, mildly interesting tripel variation.
Tom (2084) ticked Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 5 years ago
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
4/VIII/20 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared @ Fred’s Social Distancing BBQ, BB: 5/IV/21 (2020-720) Thanks to Ama Deke for the bottle!
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: pretty fruity, funky, bit weird, floral, something’s off here. Can’t put my finger on it. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: soft bitterness, malty, grains, fruity, quince I guess, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: soapy, soft acidity, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: more quince coming through, soft acidity, bit sweet, dry, bit dusty, fruity finish.