Straw blond with light haze. Aroma is very much of a farmhouse with nice elements of straw and manure. It's a funky taste with the sweetness and sharpness associated with sherbert.

Bottle sample during Gents Bierfestival '21 - shared with Tderoeck.
Dorée-orange présentant un léger trouble, col fin blanc.
Arôme présente un nez répondant au nom - raisin et raisin avec des effluves 'sourish' , retrouve qcq pointes de barrique. Le tout conserve un léger funk plus sur un effet wild american ale.

Palais est finement 'sourish' avec un rétro raisin-fruité plaisant gardant une petite touche piquante en fin de bouche, côté raisin perdure tout le long avec un côté 'lambi-esque' tout en ayant ce côté 'sour' plus américaine - pas du tout surpris de retrouver le nom de Mikkeller dans cette histoire;

No head but ultra-small rim over fully hazy peach-coloured beer. Sour fruit nose, indeed grapes. Hint of white 'chocolate'. Sour, lactic and fruitacids, again definitely grapey. Bit vinous in character as well, much rather than lambic-like flavours. Lipsmacking acidity, light dry-out effect. New in the Feniks portfolio in many ways. I'm waiting for the Kortrijkse Quelque Chose...

21/VIII/21 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival (Gent), BB: X/2025 (2021-907)

Cloudy beige beer, small creamy white head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: yeasty, little dirty, floral, soapy touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very yeasty, some tannins, bit fruity, nice acidity. Aftertaste: more yeast, somewhat bitter, tannins, fruity, ok, but I liked the base beer better.

Collab of De Feniks in West-Flanders with world famous Mikkeller, apparently a lambic (even if they do not explicitly state that it is a lambic, for legal reasons I presume) with grapes normally used for champagne - I just had to taste this. Gusher, but manageable if cooled properly in advance and when opened carefully enough. Snow white, mousy, open, thinly structured head fizzing away into almost nothing in seconds; hazy straw blonde robe with peachy tinge. Funky, fruity aroma of stale lemon juice, kombucha, sweating abbey cheese, green gooseberry, cava, wet wood, stale urine (Brett!), sorrel, goat cheese, pomelo, gherkins in vinegar, sour grapes, wild apples, damp earth, hay, raspberry vinegar. Very crisply sour onset, lemon juice-like, but remaining fruity and lactic in nature without adding a vinegary sting; green gooseberries, sour grapes and lemon, fizzy carb in a refined way, supple body; bready core completely dried by this acidic lemony fruitiness and lactic yoghurt tartness, grape skin aspects, chalky side note becoming more important towards the finish, where sweaty-funky Brett aspects, some light and elegant tannic astringency and an impression of stale citrus juice join in. Crisp, very dry finish, some of the sourness is indeed absorbed by the wood and the breadiness of the malts, keeping everything enjoyable and refreshing. The chalky effect reminds me of Berliner Weisse, but this is clearly a lambic style sour indeed, complete with Bretty notes and estery fruitiness - though the 'champagne grapes' remain a bit too subtle to my taste and could have added a more interesting, sweeter juiciness to a beer acidic enough to potentially put off people not experienced in sour beer styles. Interesting, elegant experiment though, I'm not complaining (even if the price could have been a bit less stiff, for what it is...).