From the box at EAP, pours a hazy orange amber with a tiny head. Aroma has a real nice leathery character, with subtle orangey floral notes, and a touch of funk. Flavour is leathery, with bitter orange blossom, leather, and earthiness. Flat and lacking much depth, as these flat, unblended, unrefermented lambics tend to be. Okay.

Bag in box @Drakkar, Madrid. 12/02/2022. Color amarillo oscuro sin espuma aromas cítricos, especiados sabor cítrico, herbales, ácida, cuerpo ligero.

Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Scent is full, funky, not straight up recognizable as orange. Than again, are the blossoms a lot like the actual fruit ? Taste is full, tart, very funky, oak. lambic has the upperhand. nice enough.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2021. A clear golden beer. Aroma of tart orange fruits, tangerine. Taste of orange fruits, tart juicy hops, brett, funk.

Cloudy gold with a nice white head. Light orange and a touch of funk. Nice orange and a clean finish. No funk or sourness but quite drinkable.

Draught Fluffy whitish head over foxy orange beer. Citrus, leather, leathersoap, old wood, orange(peel), resin. Very wry, tart, ultra-dry. Again orangepeel-oil-resin. Dry, traces of leather, farmyard flavours, wood. Only mild acidity. Light body, almost no carbonation, light dry-out effect. Nice - no doubt. But the flavours remind me more of orangepeel than of the flower.

One of an ongoing string of flavoured lambics by Oud Beersel, usually very tasty and interesting so I sometimes wonder why none of them has made it into a back-blended, refermented, bottled version so far. This one uses orange blossoms – not something you see every day in beer, let alone lambic. Snow white, moussy, breaking and dissolving head on a largely clear, warm ‘old gold’ beer with pale amberish glow. Aroma of lots of citrus peel (curaçao, dried grapefruit zest) more than a ‘blossomy’ effect, Seville orange even, dry hay, dry bergamot tea bags, bread crust, cracked leather, dried mugwort, dusty attic. Tart onset, orange peel and apple peel notes, minerally side effects in spite of low carb (this is lambic, after all, so none expected anyway), supple cereally and old cracker-like core, the sourness – with fruity edge – increasingly overshadowed by a plant-like (mugwort, bitterroot even), leafy, citrus pith-ridden bitterness, ending astringent in a spicy, curaçao-like way, the astringency further supported by wood tannins and the sheer dryness of the lambic as such. Bone dry, but nevertheless the orange blossom manages to add something fresh to it – even if this refreshing effect is of a bitter citrus pith nature and the blossoms, if actually used, did not provide the perfumey orange orchard effect I was expecting. If Oud Beersel manages to incorporate that effect in this lambic with pure natural means, then a masterpiece will be born. For now: just another interesting experiment in this fascinating series, which is good enough for me.

EG 280521. Golden-orange color with no head. Aroma is horse blanket, orange peel, lemon. Flavor is funk, orange peel, lemon, floral, cellar notes, malt. Bitter finish. Interesting beer.