meug festival 2022

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

Pours unclear, warm blonde. Small white head. Scent is raw grains, funky yuzu. Taste is mildly acidic, full, malty, yuzu. Easy drinker !

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

The festival beer of this year’s Meug Tastingfestival in Antwerp, from a trusted Antwerp brewing company; sour IPA (fermented with Lachancea so technically a so-called ‘Philly sour’) flavoured with yuzu, a Japanese kind of citrus fruit. Snow white, irregular and dissolving, loose head on a cloudy straw-yellow blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Aroma of indeed lots of yuzu but in a somewhat ‘moldy’ way, yoghurt, mango juice, rainwater, sourdough, apricot flesh, hint of ‘putteke’ (sewer water) which may or may not be related to the tap. Crisp fruity onset, very citric with the yuzu being clear and bright enough, hints of guava and unripe pineapple as well, lively carbonated; supple body, sourdoughy core but the sour aspect – as usual with Lachancea – remains subtle and soft, as a yoghurty lacing clashing a bit with a citrus pith and hoppy bitter note in the end. This yellow-green, sweet-sour, utterly citrusy fruitiness, however, prevails, so that the whole does end as refreshing and elegant as expected. Acceptable enough, but still some ups and downs here, lacking a bit in colour and brightness for a flavoured sour IPA. Maybe fermentation with the old lactic bacteria (and kettle souring) would give an even more crisp, ‘sunny’ effect?