Sour ale by much-coveted Antidoot in Belgian Limburg, a winter beer apparently making use of not the fruit (because unavailable in winter), but the very branches of the blackcurrant shrub... Bottle shared at De Koffer in Groningen city. Medium thick, snow white, largely stable but open ring for a head, initially clear orange-hued deep golden robe, misty with sediment. Aroma of sour apples, green gooseberries, sourdough, wood sorrel, kefir, unripe mandarin, minerals, cava, cucumber, stale sweat, dandelion and other bitter weeds - probably the blackcurrant branches indeed. Sour onset, crisp and lemony but not harshly puckering, green plum, sour apple and unripe mandarin, lovely minerally aspects from fizzy, near-cava-like carbonation calming down later on, supple bready-sourdoughy core dried by this 'green' fruitiness and indeed a weedy, grassy, dandelion-like plant bitterishness representing the blackcurrant branches; unripe pear and sweaty notes in the end, drying sourness but not overly astringent. Contrary to my expectations, the blackcurrant branches do add something distinct that fits quite well in the 'wintery' atmosphere this beer wants to evoke; original and very refined, but I did not expect anything less from these guys.

White head, fast reduced to rim over deep-golden beer. Bit gingery nose at first, wild grapes, demi-sec white wine, hint @ noble rot. Sour, but with a marked bitterish, and mainly spicy backthroat taste. Mild acidity, lactic - malonic? More like acidic wine, now, but again vinous; lemon. Very faint mushroom flavour, the noble rot reappearing retronasal. Very slick, almost viscous feel, medium bodied, some acidthinning, soft carbonation. Lipsmacking acidity, dry-out effect. "Not their best"@ Antidoot means excellent.