7.4

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

A slightly hazy golden yellow beer with a white lacing. Aroma of sour apricot, wood, funk. Taste of sour apples, apricot, yeast, brett.

7.5

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

12 September 2024. At 1ste Kwatrechts Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Tim and the GBV crew!

Grape must, cellar, old white wine, sourdough. Sour grape, plum, some lemon, bit vinegary. Tart grape, grape skin, old white wine or almost-sherry like finish. Dry, old profile; not overly complex, just a nice dry apéritif.

8.4

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

Bottle. Color: Lightly hazy pale golden, fast disappearing white head. Aroma: Tart, vinuous, grape, subtle funk. Taste: Rural and slightly leathery funk, vinuous, grape,, grapemost and some grapeskin, spicy hints and light hints of vanilla. Saison-ish wine-beer hybrid. Tannins, dry mouthfeel. Moderate to over moderate tart, moderate sweet. Medium body, quite sparkling just below average carbonation. Very well balanced. I had to wait quite a long time before I had the chance to finally get an amphora aged beer of this brewery, but it definitely was worth the wait.

8

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

Shortlived white head over veiled golden-ochre beer. Sour apricot, peach, white grape, estery, bit of solvent. Apricot returning, apricot liqueur, with a spicy, almost bitterish retronasal flavour. Vinous character, with quite some wineacids. Seems lighter than it is, feels better carbonated than its looks, fruitslick, grapeskins feel and flavour. This is where Heilig Hart excells!

8.1

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

New embodiment of Heilig Hart’s first sour (a beer-wine hybrid and an immediate qualitative success back in 2019, as far as I am concerned), with tweaked recipe: whereas the original batch was aged on both clay amphoras and wooden barrels, this one omits the wood altogether; the wine must used comes from different grapes now (Gewürztraminer, Riesling and Sylvaer) and the hops are different too. Other than that, this 2020 version is also much stronger than the original – so a new entry here is indeed in order. No head at all, hazy apricot blonde robe with beige-ish tinge. Rich bouquet of freshly cut green apples, cooked yellow plums, clay from the amphoras, pumice even, unripe pineapple, wine must and indeed sweetish grapes, touch of honey even, lychee wine, soapy coriander, old dried thyme or other ‘herbes de Provençe’ and a rubbery touch reminiscent of sake. Very fruity onset, estery with more ripe and fleshy, sweet-sour fruitiness than the first batch, varying between red apple, yellow plum, lychee and pear, some very light carbonation, very vinous mouthfeel (but feeling a tad thicker than wine usually does). The grapes (or rather, the must) grow and grow in the middle, adding a sweetish white wine-like flavour which eventually becomes equally strong as this bready malt core underneath; lovely yoghurty acidity keeps everything in balance, while this clay-like amphora taste comes to the foreground further on (always a bit of an adaptation after hundreds of wood-aged beers!). The herbal notes (thyme, rosemary) from the nose return too, blending with the sweet-sour juiciness of the grapes; they accentuate the drying effect delivered by the lactic acidity. Alcohol warms, a tad sherry-like, but generally remains very well hidden. Fruitier, fleshier, juicier, ‘grape-ier’ and stronger than the first – a different creation indeed, and equally interesting.

8

Magus, hapu, funky, puuviljane, viinamarjane. Ok

6.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Taster at BXLBeerfest. yellow hazy color, small white head. smells funky, earthy, light stone fruits. Decent smell full body, soft carbonation. tastes of tannins, earthy notes, bit sweet, apples, stone fruits. Finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of apples, ciderish and spices. Pretty nice one, bit on the sweet side, but rather nice

7, 6.5, 7, 6, 7

6.9

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

Clear golden colour with no head. Subtle fruity notes, grape must, nicely woody and dry. Not too sharp, fairly mellow.

7.8

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

Clear red colour with no head. Complex with soft notes of red fruits. Quite grapey, winey. Touch of wood adds a drier element.

7.3

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

20/VIII/22 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a, 2020 edition (2022-1073)

Clear orange beer, practically no head. Aroma: nice, lots of brett notes, a little dirty, sourish, decent! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sweet, oxidized, a bit sourish, oranges, fruity, a little bitter, good stuff! Aftertaste: very fruity, pretty acidic, acid burns in the throat maybe, super sour, dry finish, a little bitter, some tannins, very pleasant.