Sour For the Soul - Blueberry
De Mederie in Celles, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: BrouwbarBrewed at/by: Brouwerij Alvinne
Sour / Wild Beer Regular
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Score
7.34
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(Sour saison with Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus)
Collab between De Mederie (Pottes, Belgium) and Brouwbar (Ghent, Belgium)
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Sour For the Soul - Blueberry from De Mederie 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Blueberry fruit beer based on Sour For The Soul, a collaboration of Brouwbar and De Mederie, brewed in Alvinne’s barrels. Thick and mousy, irregularly edged, pale lilac-tinged off-white head, hazy deep purple-tinged burgundy robe. Aroma bursting with actual, ripe, fleshy, juicy blueberries exhibiting sweetness, astringency and spiciness, with side impressions of sourdough, red wine vinegar, raspberry bush leaves, cooked rhubarb, stewed plums and some background woodiness. Crisp sour onset deeply soaked in a very generous amount of blueberry juiciness, sweetness and spiciness – as if drinking actual, homemade blueberry juice, but with a sharper ‘sting’ of lactic, rhubarb- and redcurrant-like acidity to it; medium carb, apparently a tad softer than in the plum version, and therefore as a whole feeling softer and more ‘moelleux’. Light bready core remaining drenched in blueberry juice and lactic sourness till the very end, where astringent blueberry skin and seed effects provide a strong drying effect balancing out the fleshiness of the fruit itself; slight woody accents linger along with that typical, ‘dark green’, forest-evoking blueberry spiciness and earthiness. A very pretty one, delivering exactly what it promises and more – probably my favourite of the three Sour For The Soul fruit beers, though admittedly it is hard to choose as they are all equally accomplished, each in their own way.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Sour For the Soul - Blueberry from De Mederie 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
19/IX/20 - on tap @ brouwbar, BB: n/a (2020-933)
Little cloudy dark purple beer, big bubbled off-white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, no lacing in the glass. Aroma: quite some tannins, fruity, blueberries, bit herbal, funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice acidity, lemon juice, fruity, some blueberries, bitter touch, tannins, bit of a saline touch, nice. Aftertaste: lots of blueberries, some blueberry jam, bitter, bit oxidized, lovely beer, really dig it!