Oude Cider
Het Boerenerf in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Cider - Dry Regular|
Score
7.26
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mike_77 (15884) ticked Oude Cider - Oogst 2022 from Het Boerenerf 4 months ago
mcberko (47051) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
750mL bottle at Lord Byron, pours a clear blonde with a medium white head. Aroma is full of barnyard funk, dry apple skins, and champagne-like effervescence. Flavour is like a funkier, lambic-fortified Spanish cider, dry apple skins, and some champagne-like effervescence. Funky, dry and musty finish. Excellent.
RennyDoig (4318) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 7 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[2022 Vintage] 750mL bottle at Lord Byron. Pours hazy blonde with a white head. Musty apple skin and funk on the nose. Flavour has apple skins, funk, and slightly tannic. Very nice funky cider
midovark (6754) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 8 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle shared at the brewery. Erősen tanninos, vibrálóan gyümölcsös, száraz, mint a sivatag
Svesse (15611) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Draught at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, 20 Oct 2024) Hazy pale yellow colour with foamy, white head. Fruity nose with notes of green apples, yeast, birch leaves and a touch of funk. Fruity taste with apples, honey, a touch of yeast, mild tannins and a balanced acidity in the finish. Medium body, with a slight sweetness. Rich and well made cider. Very nice.
daniele (14527) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
As cider 2020/21 bottle oro carico velato piuttosto gasato con una discreta schiuma lieve nota funky brte lievito speziato ? Poi leggera pera mela piuttosto matura medio secco delicato tannino
Maakun (16495) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared. Bit hazy light golden. Huge farmyard aroma, donkey sweat, pear, quince, leather, hay, grapes, dry green apple. Under medium sweet and light sour. Almost full bodied, medium dry. Not too bad for a Belgian cider.
danlo (12875) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Panda courtesy of Theydon_Bois, cheers Colin! Golden colour, bubbly white foam head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of apple, wood, wild yeast, funk. Taste is tart, tangy, oak, apple, wood barrel, with some funky yeasty notes and drying tannin. Medium bodied, light carbonation, dry finish. Nicely drinkable.
Theydon_Bois (45766) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, picked up from the brewery during RTV's 50th bash, 24/03/24. Almost clear light golden to orange with a white cap that settles at the edge and as a swirl/spotting. Nose is bitter sweet apple, herb, hedgerow, light orchard wood, straw. Taste comprises sharp apple, dried pears, tannins, orchard wood, hedgerow, vinous tones. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, big drying close. Solid cider ... good balance ... largely tarte apple and not sweet which is my preference.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Oude Cider from Het Boerenerf 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Boerenerf's 'basic' cider, though perhaps less basic if one considers the addition of two apple-related but clearly distinct fruit species, namely pear and quince. The word 'oude' was seemingly borrowed from the lambic world - where it refers to the traditional production methods, especially in the context of geuze, so I guess in this case it should be interpreted as spontaneously fermented without the addition of extra sugars. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork and crown cap. Medium thick, egg-white, moussey, tiny-bubbled foam forms during pouring, opening up in the middle but retaining very well around the edge of the glass; hazy yellow blonde colour with a vague olive-greenish tinge and minute strings of sparkling everywhere, but hard to see with the naked eye through the haze. Rustic aroma of old wrinkled apples but not the very sweet ones, Conference pear peel, cooked quince perhaps, a pear orchard in spring, damp straw, freshly ploughed land in early spring (undoubtedly bacterial), stale urine but in a good way if you get my drift - Brettanomyces perhaps, wet clay, petrichor, light background woodiness. Crisp, obviously very fruity onset, medium sweet apples with ripe Conference pear, quite soft and sweetish but nowhere too sweet; the quince again seems 'cooked', lacking its classic raw astringency, but edginess is added both by malic acid from the fruit and spritzy, minerally effervescence enthusiastically bubbling through a soft mushy apple pulp middle, sweetish with a gently sour core, in which tannic effects from fruit and wood pop up elegantly - yet neither the carbonation nor the tannins draw the attention away from the fruit, which gets all the credits here, accompanied retronasally by this bacterial and wild-yeasty funky elements, varying between damp hay, wet earth and forest mushrooms. Pleasant accents of wood, lemon zest and apple blossoms pop up here and there. I am not well-versed in judging cider, but this one seems utterly balanced between sweet and sour, with a gently drying finish, an above average level of complexity and lovely earthy and funky accents to keep it entertaining. A lovely, pure, 'fresh' apple flavour lingers after swallowing, focusing on the fact that this is indeed very much cider - as well as perry and whatever fermented quince juice is called these days. This is Boerenerf 'pur sang'': producing fully natural, artisan products of completely different heritage yet all sharing a common ground somehow, an approach best illustrated by their crossovers of beer, cider, mead and even wine (see e.g. Symbiose). In order to fully understand the blends containing cider, tasting this 'pure' one is a must. Very tasty indeed.