Lambic Infused with Star Anise
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
7.10
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Ingredients: water, barley malt, wheat, hops, star anise
6.8 % ABV Color: golden yellow Pour at: 8 ° C - 12 ° C Shelf life: 2 years BEER BOX content: 3.1 l
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draught. Rating under caution, as rater is personally horrified by the taste of aniseed Yellow; almost clear beer; small rim. Aniseed in the nose, some farmyard odours, fennel. In the taste however, the sourness takes over from the spice; only retronasal; the spicy, perfumey aniseed/fennel flavour reappears. Lactic acid everywhere; mild but moulding the picture. Light with acidthinning, dry, mild tartness, very light carbonation. OK, it is way better than I feard, certainly the onset (not the nose) is quite agreable. Thanks to David!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
One of an ongoing series of unusually flavoured lambics, tasted from tap at Pardaf, a beer-oriented pub in Antwerp’s Suikerrui and one I absolutely needed to check out. Egg-white, open but stable (for unblended lambic!) ‘ring’ for a head, hazy ochre-tinged golden blonde robe. Aroma of dried orange peel, weirdly bottled orange juice as well, indeed strong aniseed, camphor, lemon curd, fresh dill (probably a star anise effect again but quite strikingly so), roses, dry hay, ginger, stale sweat, sourdough, wild apple, old bread crust. Crisp onset, quite some carbonation for an unblended lambic, adding minerally accents; lemony tartness but not too harsh, lots of drying, yoghurty lactic sourness through a bread-crusty core – overpowered by this very herbal, strong star aniseed affect, again very dill-like, evoking ginger and lemon verbena as well in combination with the lambic’s sourness; very aromatic and long-lasting, the star aniseed is a bit ‘distorted’ by the lambic’s spontaneous fermentation effects in a very dill-like way, quite surprisingly (but then I had no idea what to expect from a star anise lambic anyway). In terms of unexpected and weird aromas, which kind of work but then do not entirely in the end, this is only surpassed by the weirdest of those Japan-themed OWA lambics.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
2/VII/21 - 3.1L bag-in-box from the brewery @ Gentse Biervereniging lambiektasting pt. 2, BB: 16/III/22 (2021-562)
Clear orange beer, no head. Aroma: that’s a lot of star anise all right! Very spicy, funky touch, and just more and more star anise.MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: good, nice warm spice, star anise, lots of oranges as well, some gentle bitterness, candy flavours… Aftertaste: dry finish, citrus notes, orange peel and more star anise obviously.