Vienna
Brasserie d'Oster in Manhay, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.62
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nathanvc (6881) reviewed Vienna from Brasserie d'Oster 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle brought back from a beer shop in Durbuy - many thanks to Anke! Pours clear yellow with a quickly thinning, off-white head. Aroma of banana, honey, yellow apple, white bread, ripe apricot, grain, yeast, kitchen herbs, some cooked cauliflower (vague DMS). Taste is light fruity sweet, a bit banana-estery, apricot & apple with a dash of honey & caramel; turning light to medium grainy bitter with a spicy edge, supported by a yeasty & (white) bready malty base & somewhat wheaty-lemony sourish. Dryish, grainy finish, lingering yeast, bread & faint yellow fruit, and some grassy hops kicking in very late. Medium body, slick texture, lively carbonation. Acceptable Belgian Ale, needs more punch.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Vienna from Brasserie d'Oster 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Belgian blonde in this Ardennes microbrewery's range, with, as my esteemed colleague kraddel already pointed out below, very stylish label with gilded letters with relief. When I saw the bottle standing on a shelf at Wijnegemse Drankenhandel, I first thought that this brewery had begun to venture into classic Lager styles, but the "Vienna" in the name does not refer to the old amber coloured Lager style in this case, but to the - traditionally - uncommon Vienna malt variety. Medium sized, creamy, moussy, eggshell-white ring with elaborate flat 'islands' in the middle over a lightly hazed, deep 'old gold' beer with orangey peach blonde hue, misty and equally misty orangey peach blonde with sediment, going all murky and ochre-hued orange in the end. Aroma of freshly cut red apples, pineapple, honey, light banana candy, pan-fried potato slices, freshly grated ginger, dried camomile flowers, some damp kitchen cloth, yellow raisins, caramel candy (the Vienna malt effect popping up, in other words), raw parsnip, glazed carrot and, alas, increasing as it warms up, a unignorable whiff of DMS (sulfuric, stinky, overcooked Brussels sprouts). Sweetish onset but in a refined kind of way, candied pear, some fig, light banana and sweet, fresh red apple, quite crisp and inviting with lively carbonation accentuating a basic, elegant sourishness; supple, smooth body. Caramelly malt sweetness in an elegant, non-offensive kind of way, the effect of the Vienna malt indeed, but perhaps a tad too sweet for my tooth, especially as it remains that way, only bittered in the end by a leafy, floral hop bitterness adding subtle spicy and gingery notes. All the while, a lively, yet non-numbing carbonation adds minerally side flavours. Ends floral and mildly bitter, with traces of the estery fruitiness remaining very much in the picture. Quite an elegant Belgian blonde, but the DMS and overt sweetishness - or better: lack of hop bitterness - make for a beer that is still, unfortunately, a bit less elegant than its label. This young Oster microbrewery does decent things, they are certainly on the right track here so if this brewery is strict enough for itself, it might show considerable improvement in coming years and in that case we will definitely hear more about them than we do now.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Vienna from Brasserie d'Oster 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Oster Vienna (by Brasserie d'Oster):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
27/I/18 - 33cl bottle from La Cave du Vénetien (La Roche-en-Ardenne), shared @ home - BB: IX/2019 (2018-30)
Little cloudy orange beer, small creamy off-white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, sweetish, some honey. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet malts, soft bitterness, bit spicy, touch of coriander, some honey. Aftertaste: grains, bit metallic, lots of sweet malts, very subtle, bit of orange peel.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Vienna from Brasserie d'Oster 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ home. Label is impressive ! Common Belgian style, but the text is in gold, shiny and in depth towards the rest of the label. I guess these labels weren’t cheap at all ! Even though it looks very simple at first sight, I do love this one. Many people say you shouldn’t mind the label, but I see it as art, and a part of the beer, of the experience. So this def deserves a plus 1 on appearance ! Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is weak, bit bitterness , perhaps ? very very hidden though. Taste is crispy malts, cornflakes-like grainyness. Very aromatic maltyness. Mild sweet touch, yet far from a sweet beer. no real bitterness. It’s a very decent beer, but honestly, I expected a Vienna ( amber lager ) whilst this is high fermentation. perhaps there is a story behind this name, but I did find it misleading. Nice beer nevertheless, an interesting try if you should come across .