Opal
Tommie Sjef Wild Ales in Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.59
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sour ale w/ organic plums
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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From bottle outside De Bierkoning, Amsterdam, during Carnivale Brettanomyces 2017. Aroma is quite funky with barnyard, cellar notes, fruity, prunes, and wood. Flavour is potently sour with a dry finish. Body is medium. Complex and amazing!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2025
at 04:45
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From bottle @ Carnivale Brettanomyces 2017. Orange golden color. Apricot in the aroma. Sour dry flavor with apricot. Soft bretty notes. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:04
8/10
Przepiony aromat. Sliwki sa przepiekne, jakas taka mila przyprawowosc, grzeczne, pyszne, jedno z lepszych dzis, kwasnosc akurat... pyszka,43
Tried
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 23 Feb 2019
at 17:13
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle @ Borefts 2018, small sample. I think the label said bottled 28 Jan 2016? Hazy reddish color. No head. Aroma's: sourish, fruit stone/almond, a bit funky. Flavor is rather sour, fruity (plum). Light bodied. Long finish, fruity, plum, tart.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2018
at 19:02
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Borefts 2018. 750 ml bottle. Pours a pinkish brown with little head. Aromas off horseblanket, sugared tart fruit and wheaty malts. Flavors of earthy grapes, wood, light funk and plums. Soft finish
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2018
at 11:41
8/10
Tried
on 21 Sep 2018
at 14:42
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Spritziger, extrem süffiger Beginn mit weicher Säure. Trauben, Pflaumen, vollmundig. 10/8/10/10//10
Tried
on 21 Sep 2018
at 10:58
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750mL bottled Dec 2nd, 2016, drunk 9/20/17.
Soft peachy-golden. Small but fairly dense white head shows good retention for the style. High clarity, sediment left behind. Well-carbonated.
Strong sulfur mixing with tart plum skins and a softer malt and fruit sweetness. Nothing aggressive whatsoever, which was concerning at first given how little (none) sourness there are to these "sours". But it's endearing after a while and clean and aromatic (clean minus the sulfur, whic I find enjoyable). No alcohol or flaw.
Soft and lightly malty with plum sweetness, light skun tannin and mild tartness from Brett. Lots of minerality, engaging, fine, natural carbonation and high attenuation.
Soft peachy-golden. Small but fairly dense white head shows good retention for the style. High clarity, sediment left behind. Well-carbonated.
Strong sulfur mixing with tart plum skins and a softer malt and fruit sweetness. Nothing aggressive whatsoever, which was concerning at first given how little (none) sourness there are to these "sours". But it's endearing after a while and clean and aromatic (clean minus the sulfur, whic I find enjoyable). No alcohol or flaw.
Soft and lightly malty with plum sweetness, light skun tannin and mild tartness from Brett. Lots of minerality, engaging, fine, natural carbonation and high attenuation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2018
at 02:37
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 750ml. @ [ pre-TTOD(U)RBSG17 - The Tenth Official Danish (Ulfborg) Ratebeer Summer Gathering 2017 ] @ fonefan - Brugmansia house, Denmark. [ As Tommie Sjef Opal ].Speaking, with a clear medium yellow orange colour with a average, frothy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, baryard, leather, tart - fruity - dried fruit - plum, funky, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic with a long duration, tart, grapes - plums, funky, dry. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20170818] 8-3-8-3-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2017
at 09:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
75 cl bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is earthy, fruity and sourish. Citric, fruity. Dry and sourish. Dry and citric. Fruity and earthy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2017
at 07:06