8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Aus der Flasche im 2025-06 getrunken. Bei diesen rote Sour sind deutliche Kirsch/Himbeer erkennbar. Aber dazu kommt dann deutlich der Einfluß des Farmhouse Ales und des Rotweineinfluss. Alles zusammen wunderbar stimmig und gefährlich süffig. Tolles Ale!

8.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

6 January 2022. At Dok Brewing Company (Hal 16). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!

Hazy red, no head. Aroma of plum and plum peel, raspberry coulis, cherry tomato, sour cherry, sour cream, red grapes, almond, soft lemon. Taste has very sour cherry, pure sour cherry and raspberry coulis, touch of sour plum too with a sweetish streak; sour-creamy maltiness paired with an almond note, vague hint of sourdough but still buried underneath the cherry. Very tart, mouth-puckering, funky, bretty and woody finish, with the creamy & funky sour red fruits never disappearing. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Well, this is a little masterpiece.

7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Pours unclear, pink amber. Small, nearly no head. Scent is very full, intense fruity, raspberry mostly. Taste is tart, sharp, lactic. Raspberry intensity, cherry provided a full backbone. Very nice fruity beer, perhaps not the most complex or balanced though.

7

Nice... Mayby bit too sour.

7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Etre Pours a lightly hazy brick red with lots of floaties in the glass. Cherry berry nose with light lemony tart and hints of bready malt and a touch of earthy funk. Pretty nice beer, looks ugly and could use some more lactic but a nice tipple.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

One of the three new fruit beers created in a joint effort of two of Ghent’s young and progressive brewing projects, this one with a combination of cherry and raspberry. Thick and mousy, tightly lacing, pale pinkish-tinged off-white head, hazy ruby red robe with deep brownish-purplish ‘bordeaux’ tinge. Aroma bursting with real, ripe, fleshy, deep red cherries – more powerful than the rasperries as expected, but not overpowering the latter at all, as in a second sniff, the sweetness and ‘forestiness’ of ripe red raspberries appears to be almost equally strong; other impressions involve purple gooseberries, red wine vinegar, plum peel, grape skin, tomato salsa, sourdough, soaking wet wood, raw rhubarb, almond from the cherry pits (I assume). Utterly juicy, crisply sour but also very fleshy onset, a mouthful of cherry juice indeed but pierced and dried by stinging lactic acidity, yet exhibiting its generosity to the fullest – and indeed beautifully reinforced by an equally generous dosage of raspberry; tart and fizzily carbonated, the latter aspect accentuating the overall sourness, but no vinegary effects. Smooth bready malt core dried completely by the fruit acidity and lactic sourness, lots of cherry skin and cherry pit effects in the end (almond returning) while the raspberry keeps fighting for attention as well – with success, as its ‘cooked tomato’-like character shines through in the end, almost topping the cherry effect even. A tannic woody edge brings further dryness and complexity to the finish. I guess I was wondering at first why cherry and raspberry went in one single beer here and why they were not kept separate as two variants, but having tasted this, I need not be convinced any further: this creation amply demonstrates how well both fruits work together when steeped generously in a sour ale. Absolutely stunning – again, hard to choose between these three new fruit sours!