Voske
Beer 4 Nature in Mol, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij De SchieveFlemish Red / Bruin Regular
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Score
6.70
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Voske from Beer 4 Nature 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Veiled amber beer with mossy sheen under a medium, off-white head. Herbal, greenery nose, wild hops. Rather sharp taste, bit toasted, wild herbs, greenwood/branches, and also wild yeasts. Bitterness that, again, goes into the direction of wild hosp. Finish has wood, and a very, very far away hint at lambic (even when I'm convinced this is lab yeast cultivar). Light to medium bodied but with a clean, light feel, good carbonation. Not the worst from Beer4Nature, but once more, not one I'm going to crave... Txs to Joren for sharing!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Voske from Beer 4 Nature 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Amber (‘foxy’) ale from the ecologist Beer 4 Nature project in the green Kempen region, allegedly refermented with “lambic yeast”. Some light gushing, but slowly so, so no big losses or anything like that. Thick, snow white, foamy, plaster-like lacing, dense and stable head, pale orange-peach blonde robe, as good as clear initially, shifting to a misty, darker and deeper peach with sediment (but no real amber hue). Aroma very Brettanomyces-forward, like an aged Orval, including all the horseblanket, goat stable, old urine and sweaty leather metaphors associated with it, paired with impressions of bread crust, old potatoes, damp tree leaves, old wrinkled apples, yellow plum, bitter honey, dried apricot. Crisp onset, some residual fruity sweetishness (pear, peach, oxidized apple) with lively carbonation through a slick, cracker- an bread crust-like maltiness with caramelly edge, dried by this pronounced Brett effect, repeating all its horseblanket funkiness retronasally, while clove-like phenols, apple peel esters and soft floral hop bitterishness join in. I get no lactic acidity, though, so I think “fermented with cultivated Brettanomyces” is closer to the truth than “fermented with lambic yeast”… That said, I really love a Bretty ‘wild’ beer every now and then and in this bottle the wild yeast has really played out well, dominant without being unpleasant and pleasantly dry and funky. Feels like an ‘Orval light’, in a sense, and this may well have been somewhat intentional. Probably the best Beer 4 Nature representative so far, for me at least.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Voske from Beer 4 Nature 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
28/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk), shared @ summer holiday in France, BB: 30/IV/23, lot: P369 (2021-980)
Clear orange beer, big creamy off-white to yellowish head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice, fruity, some peaches, apricot, almonds, little oxidized, spicy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit sourish, fruity, citrus notes, rather zesty, a little bitter, very refreshing, a bit grassy. Aftertaste: hoppy bitterness, bit grassy, sourish touch, soapy finish, meh.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Voske from Beer 4 Nature 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: medium, white, quick gone. C: gold, bit hazy. A: malty, light sour fruity, funky, bit lemon, bit bready. T: medium malty base, light sour fruity, caramel, funky, lemon touch, soft carbonation, what are “lambic yeast”? ok for me.