Brussels Beer Project Dansaert - Invasive: Japanese Knotweed

Dansaert - Invasive: Japanese Knotweed

 

Brussels Beer Project in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช

  Lambic Style - Untraditional Special
Score
7.25
ABV: 6.5% IBU: - Ticks: 4
How do we turn the unintended spread of an invasive plant species into something nice? We brew beer!
Thatโ€™s the short story of ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ, a 6.5% lambic brewed with ๐—๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ž๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ, in collaboration with Forest To Plate.
All over the world and in Belgium, people are looking for solutions to remove Japanese knotweed from nature, so we came up with the idea to turn it into something useful.
 

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

12/II/23 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared with the Cybulskis @ home, BB: V/2027, bottled: V/2022 (2023-156)

Clear gold yellow beer, small aery irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice and funky, dry impression, spicy, funk, woody. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, good acidity up front, a little funky, lots of lemon juice, pretty bitter, nice herbal touch, some wood notes. Aftertaste: dry finish, spicy, a bit herbal, bitter, some tannins.

Tried from Bottle from Dranken Geers on 12 Feb 2023 at 18:00


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

No head but rim, dull ochre-orange beer. Sour, green fruit, white pepper, dry coriander powder, other pulverised spices (ginger, Szechuan pepper,...) Dry, peppery, spicy flavour, with lactic acid, rhubarb, lemon in the finish, pretty pleasing. Flavours as from sweet woodruff/Maitrank. Some good acidthinning and mild -burn. Dry-out effect. Finish shows some body all the same. Another good one. Who the dickens got to try if Knotweed isn't some deadly poison? Whatever, it is a pretty refined lambic.

Tried from Bottle at Cafรฉ Pardaf on 15 Oct 2022 at 07:43


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Scent is mild, lambic funk. Bit herbal, but no clue how knotweed is supposed to smell - I can only assume this herbal side is just that. Taste is funky, raw malty, tad lemon acid, bit herbal. Fairly low in intensity on the knotweed, taste more like a very nice lambic to me.

Tried on 05 Oct 2022 at 12:02