The Bruery Terreux Train To Beersel

Train To Beersel

 

The Bruery Terreux in Anaheim, California, United States 🇺🇸

Brewed at/by: The Bruery
  Lambic Style - Gueuze Rotating
Score
7.51
ABV: 8.8% IBU: - Ticks: 51
Inspired by a trip to Belgium and designed to resemble the character of lambic found in the town of its namesake, Train to Beersel showcases a slightly higher ABV than you’ll find in most other lambics. As such, the body of the beer is more pronounced, adding a certain roundness to the sour notes while elevating the customary level of funk. Additional complexity is derived from extensive aging in once used French Oak Cabernet Sauvignon barrels and once used American Oak Sauvignon Blanc barrels, and by utilizing the time-honored tradition of bottle conditioning with Brettanomyces Lambicus. It’s an inviting combination that’s full of nuanced turns - and an excursion that’s rarely replicated on this side of the globe.
 

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8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from Hopt. Aroma is grain, barnyard funk, tart stone fruits, oak, notes of peach, apricot. Flavour is tart and medium sour with a little sweetness thrown in. Finish is fairly dry, body is medium. Reminds me of Boon, not a bad thing!

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 11:57


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at the CBJ BIG BOOSTY XMAS tasting, picked up from an online peddler whom I can't recall, 13/12/23. Moderately hazed orange amber topped with an off white cap that retains well. Nose is funk, herb, hedgerow, green berry must, straw. Taste comprises pissy green berries, funk, straw, lemon rind, light acidic bite, damp oak. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced puckering bite. Tidy stuff ... fairly crisp and clean.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Dec 2024 at 21:11


8

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:52


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

Bottle shared at Craft Beer Junction - cheers! Pours mostly clear gold with a bubbly white head. Light sweet flavour with sharp acidity, lemon, pear, salty sweat. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Quenching finish, salty, more lemony tartness. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2023 at 21:34


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

Bottle shared at craft beer junction bermondsey Bottle share. Many thanks. A hazed reddy amber coloured pour with a a halo of white head. Aroma is semi sweet sour green apple, caramel. Toffee. Flavour is vinegar. Super sour, vinegar sour, lemon rind.. Harsh.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2023 at 21:10


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

13th December 2023
Craft Beer Junction. Xmas bottleshare. A light haze on this gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Smooth palate, light and mildly dry, decent fine carbonation. Airy malts, mildly sweet. Good guezey fruits, tart and bright and a little woody but always pleasing. Just a touch of aceticness on the finish. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2023 at 21:09


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

The Bruery’s ‘Terreux’ department of sour beers has paid homage to the lambic tradition of Belgium’s Pajottenland before (see Rueuze, since 2012) but this is a more free and stronger take on the geuze theme – I have been looking forward to this one for months but figured a bit of cellaring could not hurt. Snow white ring of bubbles, open and quickly dissolving into – eventually – nothing; hazy ‘old golden’ robe with warm, pale orangey glow. Aroma of lime juice, sourdough, raw cucumber and raw rhubarb, green gooseberries, Granny Smith apple, lemon slices, old oxidized white wine, damp hay, damp wood in the background. Citric onset, very crisp and ‘green’, as if biting in a slice of lime or even lemon, with gooseberry and green grape associations too, but also fresh cucumber; softish fizz – in any case not geuze-like at all – with a slender, bit vinous mouthfeel. Lemony and cucumber-like ‘greenness’ and acidity all the way, green gooseberry or unripe grape popping up here and there but in all, remaining relatively low in esteriness; bready and cracker-like malt core, oaky tannins appearing in the end and adding dryness. The lemon juice sourness and crispness remains bright till the last drop – and though some may find the overall acidity a bit much (I probably could not finish an entire bottle myself), I liked the ‘sunny’ and joyful, refreshing crispness of this beer, all the more so because its considerable alcohol content never even gets in the way. If I would have tasted this blind, I would have estimated it at least two ‘degrees’ in ABV lower. AmLam indeed – by one of its specialists – and clearly not a lambic (let alone a geuze), for which it lacks funkiness, complexity and a certain ‘barnyard’ feel, but for those who are open to America’s ‘méthode traditionelle’, which in strictly American context is anything but traditional, this is a recommendable example. Perhaps its score here would have been higher without the association with ‘lambic land’: after all and for all my love for Pajottenland lambic, American sour ales, whether imitations of lambic or not, have acquired enough diversity and experience by now to no longer need the bond with actual lambic, in my view…

Tried on 14 Jan 2022 at 13:23


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7

Excellent wild ale, sour and vinous and layered, with a moderate citric/berry tartness mixed with grape jam, oak, and a hint of funk. Wish the funk in the taste was as prominent as the funk on the nose, but still a good pint.

Tried on 13 Jan 2022 at 03:37


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

On tap at Tørst. Pours gold orange. Sour, oak, vanilla, peach, pear, tart white wine, gooseberry, passionfruit, grapefruit zest, cider vinegar. Nice high carbonation. Good.

Tried from Draft on 02 Dec 2021 at 00:01


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

On tap at Bruery Terreux, pours a clear golden with a small white head. Nose brings out light funk and gentle grapes. Flavour is very vinegary, with lots of vinegar, a touch of funk, and a hint of oak. Way too vinegary, lacking any complexity. Crappy.

Tried from Draft on 24 Jun 2021 at 06:10