La Source Beer Co. Solstice D'Hiver

Solstice D'Hiver

 

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

  Traditional Beer - Gruit Winter
Score
7.28
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 12
Our personal take on the somewhat worn-out style of spicy Christmas beers: a wild Gruit, with spruce tips & juniper berries, aged for more than a year in barrels!
 

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7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

75cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geeks Winter Gathering. Pours gold with a light mist, pure white head. Aroma is herbal, gently spicy, wild air. Crisp sourness with a layered wild complexity, spicy moments with a noticeable juniper sweetness, tart fruity acidity. Like it.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2025 at 13:00


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

Bottle at Belgian Beer Geeks Gathering. Clear golden. Very herbal, sweet malts, lemon zest, yoghurt. Medium sour and light sweet.. medium bodied. Nice

Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2025 at 00:28


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

17/VIII/24 - 75cl bottle @ GBV No-Festival-Bottle-Share, BB: 16/XI/24, bottled: 16/XI/22 (2024-757) Thanks to Stephanie for sharing the bottle!

Clear blond beige beer, small creamy dense white head, pretty stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, some orange peel, very spicy, earthy, herbal, rosemary, a bit oxidized, funky, floral, nice one, earthy. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice fruity start, orange peel, some grapefruit, a bit acidic, lactobacillus, a bit herbal, very sour, nice! Aftertaste: very acidic, lemony, pretty bitter, herbal, some grapefruit, a bit resinous, herbal, earthy, sourish, refreshing, nice one!

Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2024 at 14:15


7

Tried from Draft on 04 May 2024 at 16:31


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Tap at the source. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a sticky off white head. Aroma is tangy apple, pale grains, green apple, sour. Palate is crisp and tangy, highish carbonation. Airy. Flavour is composed of semi sweet jolly rancher, pale grains, green apple. Light clean lacto.

Tried from Draft on 09 Feb 2024 at 18:29


7

Tried on 09 Feb 2024 at 18:25


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Aus der Flasche (bottled 16.11.2022/bbe 16.11.2024) im 2023-11 getrunken. Dieses gelbe, trübe Gruit wurde mit Fichtennadeln und Wacholderbeeren gebraut. Es zeigt sich eine deutliche, aber ausgewogene Säure und Weißweinaromen. Im Abgang kommt eine leichte Bitterkeit von Kärutern dazu. Wunderbar!

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jan 2024 at 20:14


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

Bouteille 75cl partagée avec toute l'équipe de El Birrot, Jafre lors de notre dégustation de début d'année 2024.
BB 16/11/2024, Bottled 16/11/2022, lot# P413.
Pâle, col crémeux blanc.
Arôme est frais avec une note de bourgeon de sapin qui apporte une belle fraicheur. Genévrier assez délicat mais qui appporte une direction en adéquation avec ce style ancien avec un effluve forestier/sous-bois bien plaisant.
Palais est plaisant avec un effet brett clairement présent mais qui apporte son côté sauvage et maîtrisé. Baies de genévrier en retrait qui accompagnent bien ces notes fraiches de bourgeons de sapin. Funk léger en fin de bouche.

Assez bien faite, juste étonnant de voir du houblon sur une bière vendue comme 'winter gruit'.

Tried from Bottle at La Source Beer Co. - Taproom on 11 Jan 2024 at 12:47


7

Hapu, puuviljane, taitrus, kuivust nats, virsikune. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2023 at 20:09


7

Sweet, sour, apples, jammy, fruity

Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2023 at 20:04