Bottle. Color: Murky reddish brown, beige head. Aroma: Tart, red wine, hints of Bourbon. Taste: Medium tart, red wine, oak wood, hints of Bourbon and vanilla. Indeed tasting pretty much like a Flemish Brown Ale. Dry finish. Medium body, below average carbonation.

Bottle @MBCC2023, Green Session. Cloudy dark orange, small offwhite head. Mild aroma, sourish fruit, leathery. Sweet flavour, leather, wet straw.

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Tommie Sjef’s interpretation of a Flemish ‘oud bruin’, made with mixed fermentation; big cheers to Hinke for this very generous gift! Yellowish egg-white, medium sized, membrane-like lacing, initially quite frothy, opening head on a cloudy, pale-ish caramel brown robe with ruddy-‘rusty’ glow. Aroma of sour red plums, blackberries, passionfruit, dusty old wood, redcurrant juice, medlars, dry old tea, kefir or white yoghurt, hints of cooked beef, raspberry vinegar and hard green pear. Tart onset, redcurrant- and blackberry-like, some light passionfruit-, pear- and medlar-like sweetness for balance but generally quite sour for this style, with a sharpish, fruity, colourful lactic acidity piercing through the whole. Quite fizzy in carbonation, helping the tartness to dry an otherwise rounded, caramelly, brown-bready, slender maltiness; tannic wood notes in the finish add further dryness to the point where the beer becomes a tad astringent (yet less so than I had in several other postmodern attempts at this ancient style). Red-fruity sourness lingers at the back along with bready elements, caramelly malts, woodiness and yoghurty lactic tartness. Slender and somewhat ‘basic’ Flemish red, but highly elegant, fruity and lively, with all the correct flavours and aromas one associates with ‘oud bruin’ immediately. Perhaps a tad more malt sweetness (and density) could bring further improvement to this already successful experiment?

Clear brown colour with no head. The acidity is quite citric and lemony. Gets really woody in the finish.