dok brewing festival 2022

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

Bottle pour at Arrogant sour Festival 2022. Cloudy yellow orange with medium white head. Stone fruit, apples, musty, some honey. Medium sourness.

Jätkuvalt mõnus.

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

At BXL. Hazy light golden. Honey up front, toilet smell, soft funk, gooseberries, light apple. Like a funky mead.

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

Blend of lambic, mead and cider, all home made by Boerenerf Eylenbosch, the new kid on the block in the Pajottenland lambic culture. Thin and very loose, snow white, open ring for a ‘head’ on a hazy deep yellow-golden robe with greenish tinge. Aroma of fermenting apple and indeed home made dry cider, gooseberry jam, yoghurt – even sweetened but that is probably the honey from the mead speaking, sugared lemon juice, ripe pear, rhubarb, sweaty note. Acidic onset, very much Granny Smith apple with sharpish lemony edge and flavours of unripe blackberries and rhubarb; yoghurty lactic sourness runs through the whole, medium carbonation, supple but quite full-bodied. Sourdoughy middle with aspects of cucumber and sugared lemon, but primarily the green apple persisting, with this weird mead sweetness crashing into the party; still this bizarre blend ends with crisp, green-fruity juiciness and slight vinosity, its quenching character aided by woody aspects which never overpower the green apple, gooseberry and rhubarb flavours which dominate here. If it were not for the lambic involved, I guess this drink could have been classified as a ‘cyser’ (mead fermented with apple) and I suspect cyser is the best frame of reference to compare this concoction with. Weird but interesting, tart and colourful, but the cider dominates and clashes a bit with the mead for me. Not my personal cup of tea, to be honest, but it demands respect that in such a short amount of time, this farm manages to produce lambic, cider ànd mead at home and starts experimenting with them. One can only imagine what more will come out of the sheer enthusiasm, creativity and know-how this Boerenerf Eylenbosch currently displays…

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

0,15l from bottle shared at Arrogant Sour Festival 2022. Yellow cloudy color, medium big white head. Smells spices, earthy, candy, bubblegum, nice to very nice smell. Full body, bubbly carbonation. Tastes of bubblegum, earthy, bit herbal, apples, cidery, grassy, some oak. Finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of apples, herbs and peppery notes. A bit too much carbonation, but overall very nice one

8, 7.5, 8, 7, 8

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

1/V/22 - 75cl bottle, shared @ Toer de Geuze, Boerenerf Eylenbosch, BB: 16/I/2027 (2022-466) Thanks to GBV-crew for sharing the bottles!

Cloudy orange blond beer, small creamy dense white head, stable, non adhesive. Aroma: little floral, fruity, lovely stuff, dry and funky, spicy, cookies and cookie dough, a big peppery. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, apples, juicy, fruity, funky, dry, lovely stuff. Aftertaste: fruity, apples, lovely stuff, dry, spicy, bit of honey, floral, herbal touch, some tannins, decent one!