Walnotenlambiek
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
6.99
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
MBCC. Hazy golden with a tiny white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, barnyard and salt water. Flavor is quite sweet and light acidic. Dry and light acidic finish. 060523
Tried
on 06 May 2023
at 10:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap. Opaque orange color with no head. Aroma is walnuts, goat cheese indeed, flowery, Lambic feet. Taste is juicy-ish, almost sticky, walnuts, fruity finish with a dash of stinky feet and cheese. Oily mouthfeel, almost flat. Nice refresher I gotta say, makes you smack your lips.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 May 2023
at 09:42
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
The 'raw material' of Oud Beersel's Green Walnut, one of their first experiments with unusual ingredients and now a fixed classic in the Belgian lambic world; draught at Bar Beenhouwer. Some loose, egg-white bubbles form an interrupted, wafer-thin ring at first but soon disappear altogether; cloudy ochre-tinged peach blonde robe. Aroma of indeed green walnut husks but also actual 'ripe' walnut itself, sherry vinegar, goat cheese, mugwort, sorrel, green gooseberry, dry hay, dandelion, vermouth, old dry white wine, wet leather. Tart onset of course, lemon peel and crushed green gooseberry elements, bone dry with the dryness accentuated by the walnuts, adding tannic and even astringent elements - but the overall vinosity of this lambic is never in danger; cereally core under lactic acidity, dry unripe stonefruit and of course actual walnut astringency and hayish Brett funkiness with an 'old leather' aspect to it. Some more dry sherry-like nuttiness from the added ingredient pops up towards the end, with woodiness, tannic walnut husk effects and leathery Brett continue unabated. Bone dry, astringent lambic, but its vinous texture ensures drinkability - if only for the lambicophiles, I guess; already complex and that is without it having been backblended and refermented. Interesting to taste this one if you want to fully understand the essence of their Green Walnut.
Tried
on 02 Apr 2023
at 00:51
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 3.5
Texture 5
Overall 4
Pours very dark and cloudy yellow. No head, ofcourse. Scent is fairly mild, recognizable OB lambic, walnut fairly hidden. Taste is intense, rubber, mild funk, chewy in a way. No doubt this one uses the green shell of the walnut, just like the bottled variant, since this tastes nothing like the actual nut, but everything like the aroma I knew all to well as a child with a walnut tree in the garden. Not a big fan, to put it mildly. It gets weirdly bitter, which clashes with the acidity. Hard to consume, even in experimentation, this doesn't work to me. I couldn't finish my few cl's in my taster pour....
Tried
on 27 Mar 2023
at 14:04
6.5/10
billie's craft beer fest 2022
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2023
at 21:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
4/I/23 - on tap, shared @ Billies Bier Kafétaria (Antwerpen), BB: n/a (2023-24)
Cloudy beige beer, no head. Aroma: very fruity, lots of peaches, nectarines, a little funky, nice brett notes, sweet impression, some almonds, bit oxidized. MF: no carbon, medium to light body. Taste: fruity start, pretty lemony, funky, brett, pretty bitter, a bit hoppy? Aftertaste: spicy, dry, some tannins, lemon peel, wood notes, again that hop-like bitterness.
Cloudy beige beer, no head. Aroma: very fruity, lots of peaches, nectarines, a little funky, nice brett notes, sweet impression, some almonds, bit oxidized. MF: no carbon, medium to light body. Taste: fruity start, pretty lemony, funky, brett, pretty bitter, a bit hoppy? Aftertaste: spicy, dry, some tannins, lemon peel, wood notes, again that hop-like bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
at
Billie's Bier Kafétaria
on 04 Jan 2023
at 17:40
7/10
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Friday Session. A hazy yellow golden beer with a white head. Aroma and Taste of tart grapes, apples, brett, peach.
Tried
on 17 Nov 2022
at 21:58