OMER. Brut Nature
Brouwerij Omer Vander Ghinste (Bockor) in Bellegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Special|
Score
7.07
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OMER. Brut Nature is a copper coloured ‘Brut Style’ beer. The use of wild yeast (Brett) results in a pleasantly dry, low-sugar, ‘living’ beer, which evolves in the bottle and can be aged for at least 5 years.
Five different hops are used in the beer with dry hopping (Belgian hops) techniques reinforcing their fruity and spicy character. It results in a dry, bitter beer with a delicate aftertaste.
The various stages of fermentation, top fermentation and refermentation with wild yeast, mean the brewing process of the beer is at least 8 weeks.
Five different hops are used in the beer with dry hopping (Belgian hops) techniques reinforcing their fruity and spicy character. It results in a dry, bitter beer with a delicate aftertaste.
The various stages of fermentation, top fermentation and refermentation with wild yeast, mean the brewing process of the beer is at least 8 weeks.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Special edition of the popular Omer, launched a few months ago (with huge commercial success, I should add) in 75 cl bottles to commemorate the ten years of existence of the regular version; this one differs by using Brettanomyces ('wild yeast') for refermentation. Had it two times now so time for a review. Eggshell-white, large-bubbled and quite loosely structured but still generally stable, opening head on an initially clear, warm orange blonde beer with amberish tinge, lots of visible sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma of indeed clear Brett ('horseblanket', fermenting apple juice, damp hay, even stale urine) hovering elegantly over impressions of ripe apricot, nectarine, lightly toasted white bread, banana peel, dough, dried thyme, straw and a less pleasant, but luckily vague touch of band aid possibly related to the Brett. Fruity onset, wrinkled old apples, banana peel and a dash of rhubarb without the sourness; dry from the start, with lively carbonation (minerally) and supple, full body. Rounded peanutty and toasted-white-bready malts with a clear caramelly edge, dried by Brettanomyces effects, leading to a nicely dry and crisp, bread-crusty, leafy hop bitterish finish which is further dried by the Brett, albeit in an elegant manner. Some halfripe fruit effects linger. Indeed a 'Bretty' ale, more so even than I was expecting based on both expectations and rumours; as with Orvélo Sprint tasted the same night, the application of Brett has significantly made an otherwise rather trivial beer (sorry to all those Omer fans out there) more interesting. And as with Orvélo Sprint, it would be fascinating to see what the Brett will do in a year or so - so I hope all those people jumping onto this particular beer the day it came out, also thought of cellaring a few for later... In all: better (or indeed 'Bretter') than expected and Bockor's most interesting beer so far, ignoring their 'foederbier' used as the basis for both Vander Ghinste Oud Bruin and (most of) the Jacobins series.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2021
at 02:09
8/10
--- Beer merged from original tick of OMER. Brut Nature 2021 on 26 Dec 2021 at 18:58 - Score: 7
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2020
at 19:07