Flora Sour Cherry
De Wilde Brouwers in Merelbeke, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Score
6.70
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Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pinkish, bit fluffy head over clear reddish copper beer, lively carbonated. Woody nose, old dried cherries, cherry liqueur, faint liquorice and cypress needles. Sour cherry, tastes a bit aged, also age-thinned. All quite demure flavours, no fireworks. Light body, good carbonation; still quite slick, giving a light syrupy impression all the same. Possibly a tad aged, but it pulls in different directions: syrup vs. fruit. Txs to Stef!
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from Bio-Planet Jambes Supermarket in Namur. F: slow manageable gusher! medium, off-white, good retention. C: reddish, hazy. A: sour cherries, blueberries, red berries, beetroot. T: light sour fruity, cherries, beetroot, blueberries, redcurrants, medium to high carbonation, interesting idea here lager BA, good balanced beer, enjoyable.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
23 March 2023. At Micheline, Ghent. Cheers to the Teamleader crew!
A: clear red, small, foamy, off-white head.
A: sour cherry, cherry juice, beetroot, lemon, earth.
T: sour cherry, bitter cherry skin, beetroot, grain, old bread.
F: soft earthy hops, old sour cherry, bitter grain & yeast.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Refreshing and an enjoyable concept, but a bit too dirty.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Special version of Wilde Brouwers' low alcohol lager, also named after the neighbourhood in Merelbeke where they are located; aged on barrels with sour cherries, with a sour lager as a result rather than a sour ale - a combination I have seen only very rarely and so far never in Belgium. Extremely violent gusher: spouting out of the bottle with great force at the moment of removing the crown cap, so forcefully that I could not prevent losing 1/2 (!) of the content to the sink - be warned. Typical 'gusher head': very irregular and very thick initially, but 'empty' and uneven-bubbled, eventually settling as a thick, plaster-lacing, irregular but dense and stable, vaguely pinkish pale beige-white mousse on a very murky, deep burgundy red beer with earthy brownish tinge, looking like beetroot juice or something alike, with small strings of tiny bubbles creeping up along the wall of the glass here and there. Strong aroma of indeed actual sour cherries and sour cherry juice in a very natural way, old bread, damp earth, cherry stones (almond-y even), redcurrant, beetroot, raw red cabbage, overripe blueberries, rosehip, bitter dandelion leaves, soaking wet old wood, vague background hints of soap, chlorine and old rusty iron (in a 'natural' kind of way though). Acidic onset from the cherries, malic acid as well as citric acid, astringent and puckering but softening further on; 'real' sour cherry flavour, even some overripe ones, fills the onset, with perhaps some side notes of redcurrant and other sour berries; lively, spritzy carbonation accentuates the acidity in the beginning. Supple, basically soft core, bready and cereally, deeply soaked in this sour cherry overload, dried by cherry skin and cherry stone tannins - and a hint of actual wood tannins, though remaining low in the expected 'vanilla' effect oak wood normally emits. Earthy finish, 'damp tree leafy' hop bitterness and again that overripe - if not rotting - sour cherry effect, with both wryness and drying tartness, while traces of malt and yeast breadiness form a softening 'soil'. Bitterness and sourness compete, but some inherent fructose sweetness lingers about too, albeit in a subtle way. I have nothing against the idea of creating a sour cherry beer from a lager - this is original to say the least, and fortunately in the glass the overall flavour is quite enjoyable, if earthy and leafy; the extreme gushing is unforgivable though, I can take a certain amount of it and not be angry but this is way over the top. The unpleasant murky looks and somewhat disarrayed head are symptoms of the same problem, which must be addressed; I can only assume that either the barrels or the fruit, or maybe both, contained additional fermenting agents that went berserk after bottling. Solve this technical flaw and you will have an original, distinct beer that resets the traditional ideas we may have of what is possible with lagers.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
11/V/21 - 33cl bottle, shared @ home (Ghent), BB: 16/XII/22, (2021-376) Thanks to my neighbour Fred for the bottle!
Pretty cloudy red brown beer, big fluffy creamy beige to dirty pinkish head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, cherries, some vinegar, floral. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, some tannins, fruity touch, vinegar acidity, cherries. Aftertaste: dry, nice acidity, some vinegar, cherry pits, sour cherries.