Cîmes & Dormance
En Stoemelings in Laken / Laeken, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Tripel Special|
Score
7.27
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Suite des expérimentations sur une recette de notre gamme permanente : la Curieuse Neus, une triple de soif. Un élevage de 4 mois dans une barrique ayant contenu du vin d’Alsace, quelques Bretts et une bonne quantité de poires. Délicatesse !
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Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Cîmes & Dormance from En Stoemelings 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Head reduced to rim in seconds. Beautiful, faintly veiled pinkish golden beer. Fruity nose with wild yeasts, pink berries and apples, Conférence pears, and rosé wine. Sourish, vinous and backthroat sweetness as from apples or more accurately pears. In the finish there's a strange, almost wry bitterness as from foliage or branches. Pearskins, peachskins. Quite slick, medium bodied at least despite the acidthinning. Nice beer indeed, not as sophisticated as based on lambic, but rewarding enough. Txs to Stef!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Cîmes & Dormance from En Stoemelings 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Curieuse Neus (En Stoemelings' tripel) aged on wine barrels with added pear and Brettanomyces, one of their more gastronomically ambitious one-off projects seeking experiment and elaboration of their core range. From a 75 cl bottle bought at Willems, shared with Craftmember. Off-white, medium thick, moussy, quickly disappearing head on a cloudy orange-glowing peach blonde robe. Aroma of stale armpit sweat (Brett!), indeed ripe (Doyenné) pear, strawberry, overripe onion, urine even, medlar, hint of stinky cheese, unripe orange, hints of band aid and other 'clinical' phenols, persimmon and rainwater. Sweet-sourish onset, persimmon, strawberry and indeed ripe sweet pear, soft carb, more or less vinous mouthfeel; residual honeyish candi-sugary sweetness on top of a yoghurty- and grape-soured, caramelly and slightly biscuity malt sweet core, buried deeply under exaggerated Bretty funkiness (sweat, urine, cow stable, overripe onion) which sadly overwhelms the delicacies of the Alsace wine and brings way too many phenolic effects too, ranging from innocent clove to offensive band aid. Light earthy bitterness in the tail, paired with soft woody tannins and lingering tripel fruitiness (even banana) - before a sour effect of strawberry vinegar returns, becoming a bit too sour for something not really intended as a true sour ale. Complex for sure, a lot of things are happening here - but they fail to meet each other in a satisfying synthesis, leaving a crude construction with little sophistication. Interesting but weird, perhaps the tripel was not the best choice for this kind of treatment, and the pears only propelled the phenolic effects of the Brett forward to a level I can no longer describe as pleasant. Who knows, maybe I should have cellared this one for a much longer time? Fact of the matter is: En Stoemelings has never really convinced me and in my humble opinion still lags behind on the true grandmasters of Brussels' 'nouvelle vague' (think Senne, Ermitage, No Science or Source, to name a few)... A missed opportunity to true greatness.
EvNa (5983) reviewed Cîmes & Dormance from En Stoemelings 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Hazy orange amber, off-white head. Aroma: Tart, fruity, Brett funk. Taste: Moderate to over moderate tart, mix of apple vinegar, vinuous white wine, rural Brett funk, fruity pear, citrus and stone fruit, wood, subtle spicy notes. Malty base. Medium body, below average carbonation. Light sweetness. Nice one.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Cîmes & Dormance from En Stoemelings 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
75cl bottle from Carrefour market LA CHASSE (BRUSSEL)as my beer #3333 from Belgium. F: medium, egg-white, quick gone. C: orange deep gold, hazy. A: pears, Brett, bit caramel, woody funky, red fruits, bit lemon, bready touch. T: full malty base, woody, pears, mild Brett, peach, lemon, bit balsamic, light sour fruity, nice balanced bitterness, soft carbonation, delicious as I expected.