6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Explosive gushing to as much beer on the table as in the glasses. Ending in a good yellowish head over some metallic orange beer. - 2 points. Pharmaceutical, Brasil nuts, wild yeasts, arachide. Old, oxydized nuts, oxydized malts, and Brettanomyces, of course. Paste made from... scorzanero? Of course overcarbonated. Slick, medium bodied. Bretts as an infection, I fear. Txs to Stef!

7.6

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

Bottle picked up from Dranken Vandewoude, Veurne, Belgium and consumed at home Sunday 15th December 2024, listening to ByteFM. We've got a Belgian Beef Carbonnade in the slow cooker. Pours mid to warm gold, it's a bit hazy, there is a mid sized white head. Bretty nose but also a little perfume, lavender maybe. Nice, refreshing it's light, spicy, really like this, however it was a gusher and I lost 1/4 to a 1/3rd of the bottle which was a tad frustrating.

7

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

330ml bottle. Cloudy, amber colour with huge, firm, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Sweet-ish, minimally sugary, caramel malty, mildly bretty, funky yeasty and slightly floral and grassy, hoppy aroma, hints of toffee and butterscotch, brown sugar, typical Hubba Bubba bubblegum brettiness, some funk. Taste is moderately bitter, grassy and minimally floral hoppy, mildly bretty, funky yeasty, minimally sugary, caramel malty basis without residual sweetness. Watery texture, dry palate, medium to coarse, prickly to lively carbonation. Nice bretty aspects, a bit watery, tad overcarbonated as well - decent.

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Voici donc une coopération entre la Brasserie des légendes et la Brasserie de la Seine autour du Bret. En l'occurrence, c'est la brasserie de la Seine qui est davantage en terrain connu. Le visuel et sur un blond doré légèrement voilé (EBC de 18), parcouru par de grosses bulles, avec une faible effervescence et une mousse blanche nappant la surface. Au nez, on ressent bien le Bret avec ces arômes de cuir, de ferme et de pommes vertes qui s'allient à ceux de céréales. En bouche, on retrouve les mêmes arômes sans trop d'acidité ou d'aigreur avec un ensemble relativement frais. Sur l'attaque, un léger poivre apparait toutefois. Mais on a l'impression d'avoir le bret, sans plus. La corpulence et la longueur sont honnêtes, tout comme l'alcool, à 6,2 % qui fait le job. Le final est relativement doux et manque un peu de vivacité. Du bret dans sa plus simple expression, mais avec une bière bien équilibrée.

6.8

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Lost about 3/4 of this to the worst gusher I've had in ages. Kitchen smells like sherbet. What's left is hazy gold, funky and has soft apricot some on the nose. Taste is yeasty, some bread and green apple. Dry finish.

7.5

Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Wild ale brewed at Légendes but fermented with a wild (read: Brettanomyces) yeast culture from Senne, an interesting premise. Very violent gusher, spouting out of the bottle as soon as the crown cap is lifted - making me lose about 1/4 of the content to the sink, which, after an equally fierce gusher by De Cam, must be very happy today. Typical 'gusher head' as a result (at least initially), lacing in dots and shreds, yellowish pale beige in colour and very irregular, open in the middle though retaining well around the edges, becoming more structured and dense as the remainder of the bottle goes in; hazy deep peach blonde robe with pale amber-brownish tinge. Aroma of funky Brett a mile out, horseblanket, damp hay, wet leather, soggy juniper berries, goat stable, armpit sweat, next to impressions of dried dandelion, young wormwood, old rusk, wet toast, petrichor, old abbey cheese rind, unripe peach, pickled apricot, dried grapefruit peel, nutmeg, preserved plum, furniture wax. Estery onset with impressions of dried apricot, pear peel, some vague persimmon and tamarillo but low in sweetness (though still some), more softly carbonated than expected (the carbon dioxide being badly 'bound') with a sleek, dryish mouthfeel. Rusk- and unsalted peanut-like, cereally malts under severely drying and funky Brett effects, including all the horseblanket, goat stable, armpit sweat, saddle soap and soaking wet leather one can think of, but low in sourness; if anything, a very dry leaf-, grapefruit peel- and young wormwood-like hoppiness provides a long, yet gentle bitterness completing the Brett profile in the finish. Lots of hay, urine, horse stable and other Brett effects linger - in fact, they are now dominating my living room after that gushing 'débacle', making me feel like I live in a stable populated by large mammals. Bone dry and quenching, hayish, leathery, peppery ending - this is Brett at its most fierce, more fierce even than in an Orval of several years old, drying the whole thing and imposing its animalistic odours to a degree where only true 'Brettheads' (does such a thing exist?) will stay faithful. Quintessential 'wild ale' (not 'sour ale' in this case) which has all the potential to age wonderfully - if only I had that much patience. Orval, the 'OG' wild ale, is never far away here, but this one does the same thing with a more youthful and uncontrolled passion. Point off for gushing right into my face, but admittedly an interesting and distinct one.

4.8

Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

29/II/24 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: V/2028, L091 (2024-131)

GUSHER ALERT
Clear orange beer, huge aery creamy irregular off-white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of orange peel, fresh orange juice, pretty floral, smells more like a witbier to me, slightly funky touch. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: funky, lab pitched brett yeast, very soapy bitterness, floral, a bit sweet. Aftertaste: very soapy, unpleasant bitterness, floral, funky, a little dirty, lab brett, don’t like it very much.

5.5

Tasting with tderoeck and Marina

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Gusher. Dark blond colour with fluffy head. Seems like there's a spicy gingerbread element in the background. Highly carbonated. Base sweetness balanced out by funky and dry Brett. Good but not anywhere near Bruxellensis.

8.1

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

Hazy orange colour, medium sized dense ecru-ish head; aroma of acetone, unripe fruity, grassy, some orange juice, malty, citrusy and woody notes; taste of hoppy bitterness, acetone, tart, woody, bitter orange, and some malty notes; great one