La Source Beer Co. Old Fashion

Old Fashion

 

La Source Beer Co. in Laken / Laeken, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Traditional Beer - Gruit Special
Score
7.13
ABV: 5.2% IBU: - Ticks: 5
Cocktail Inspired Gruit. With Gentian for bitterness and oranges at whirlpool. Aged several months in bourbon barrels w/ our house culture.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

aroma of Belgian wild ale with some fruity esters going on, very nice, well mellow and blended, still yeasty notes and some funk. Flavor is very peppery, belgian style sour ale, with some of the more bacterial kind of citrussy sourness you'd find in US wild ales, also a lot of bitter grapefruit fruit peel going on. Overall the flavor is decent enough, not so sour as to scare anyone off, but also quite messy and not really refined enough to make me look forward to the rest of the 75cl bottle I just opened.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2024 at 19:46


7.4

Light, surprising. Lots of Flanders-y notes. Enjoying the lack of hops. Very cocktailish, but definitely more gruit

Tried from Bottle on 24 Jul 2022 at 19:18


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

21/V/22 - sample @ Leuven Innovation, BB: n/a (2022-554) Thanks to Sebletitje for sharing today’s beers!

Little cloudy orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: herbal, floral, a bit weird, spicy, some thyme? MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour start, clean acidity, fruity, oranges, orange peel, a little bitter. Aftertaste: spicy, sourish, herbal, more thyme, orange peel, bitter finish, some almonds, little oxidized.

Tried on 21 May 2022 at 14:40


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Sample during Leuven Innovation '22, shared with Tderoeck and Untappd duo.
Couleur lgère orange - ambre, col fin blanc.
Arôme sur un bouquet funk, léger niveau barrique, effluves herbacées entre médicinal et cocktail - le tout est frais et intriguant.
Palais est finement aigre, funk, pas mal herbacé sur cette approche un peu gin tonic avec une petite touche rappelant le genièvre, effervescence marquée et une acidité de fin de bouche plaisante sans être surfaite.

Tried from Bottle on 21 May 2022 at 09:15


8

Great! Fruity and bitter in the aftertaste with hints of wood.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Apr 2022 at 21:34