Pipes and Barrels
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: De LeiteSour / Wild Beer Regular
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7.43
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At Oud Beersel, we filled two pipes in early March 2021 with Bon Homme and topped them off with 30% Lambic. This blend then aged for 26 months until the barrels were recently emptied and bottled. Our blend is named “Pipes and Barrels".
At Brouwerij De Leite, they followed the same process—filling a barrel with both Bon Homme and Oud Beersel Lambic at the same proportions. Their blend is named “Barrels and Pipes”.
Both beers do an amazing job of showcasing the different effects that different barrels and expertise can have on aging.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375mL bottle from Oud Beersel. Pours murky brown with a beige head. Dark dried berries, gentle funk, leather on the nose. Flavour has dried cranberries, some musty old wood, leather. Very nice.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
375mL bottle, pours a cloudy dark amber brown with a medium beige head. Aroma has a nice musty leather character upfront, moderate barnyard funk, and a touch of dark dried fruits. Flavour is much the same, with tart red fruits, leather, and gentle funk. Finishes tart and leathery. Solid blend.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 37.5cl. corked and caged @home poured into a shaker. Tart and barnyard nose. Clear deep amberbrown colour, small moussy beige head, slowly diminishing to a thin layer, light lacing. Aroma lambic, barnyard, wood, horse blanket, redcurrant. Fruity taste, medium sour and below medium sweet, tart, malty notes, red berries, sour apples, balsamico, woody notes. Medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation, fruity sweet and sour aftertaste, woody notes, earthy notes, complex aad smooth impression, very good.
ShivanDragon (10851) ticked Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 1 year ago
Proeft als ren Vlaams bruin , eiken, moutig en lambic, zoet en zuur, lekker
fombe89 (10864) ticked Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 1 year ago
Botella @Oud Beersel. Tour Gueuze 2024. 05/04/2024. Color ambarino corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores madera, ácida, cuerpo medio.
EvNa (6056) reviewed Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Dark ruby, large light brown head. Aroma: Tart, caramel and dark fruit notes.Taste: Tart, Balsamico vinegar, fruity lemon and gooseberry, oak wood, funky notes, some dark dried fruit and iron. Over moderate to medium tart. Very light bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Nice and refreshing.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours fairly clear, dark brown. Scent is very toasty, roasty, earthy. Reminding me of the dark lambic once made by 3F. Taste is very dry and sharp, roasty and toasty, very mildly acetic. Strong pungent apple aroma typical to OB, Ashy factor as well almost. Very different and unique, but not a particular combo I enjoy as much as I hoped I would.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Blend of 70% De Leite Bon Homme (a dubbel) with 30% Oud Beersel lambic, from a 37.5 cl 'geuze bottle' with cork and muselet. Opens with a bang but no gushing. Thickly moussy, crackling, quite coarse and large-bubbled, pale grey-beige head slowly thinning over an initially clear, warm and deep caramel brown robe with coppery to almost purplish hue, turning misty only in the very end. Aroma largely dominated by the lambic, with impressions of redcurrant, lemon juice, lots of old wood, crabapple, unripe green plum, cracked leather, 'horseblanket', dry earth, brown bread crust (almost burnt), dusty attic, unripe blackberries, sherry vinegar or even vague balsamico, dried rose petals, autumn leaves, faint roasted chicory. Tart, crisp onset, again dominant lambic effects, lemon, blackberries, redcurrant and wild apple sourness, very fruity and lively, with spritzy, geuze-like effervescence; smooth, rather full body, minerally carbonation effects piercing through a brown-bready and slightly beech-nutty core, accompanied by strong woody tannins and lingering unripe stonefruit astringency, yet maintaining a colourful 'dark' and sour fruitiness throughout. Earthy notes in the finish, with that lemon juice-like sourness continuing, but also red berries and wild apples still going strong. Dubbel with lambic equals old school 'versnijbier' or 'coupagebier', a practice still carried on by a handful of producers, but in most of those more 'classic' cases the emphasis remains on the sweetness and maltiness of the dubbel, whereas here the lambic has really taken over, with its sourness, funkiness and esteriness penetrating the Bon Homme deeply and relentlessly - in fact, the end result is perhaps better described as a 'dark lambic' rather than an old-fashioned versnijbier. I love Oud Beersel lambics but in this particular case, I was hoping to see more of De Leite's Bon Homme as well - do not get me wrong, though, this creation has complexity, intelligence, elegance and character to the brim. Prolonged cellaring may lead to interesting results with this kind of beer, too, I think.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2023, Friday. Reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma and Taste of intense sour red berries, grapes, wood, brett, funk.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Pipes and Barrels from Brouwerij Oud Beersel 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Receding cream-tannish head over dark amber-brown beer. Smell of farmyard/horseblanket, lemon, lemonthyme and lactic acid with Oud Bruin-associated dark candi sugar. Sourish, wood, sour dark grapes, hints of chocolated, dark fruit. In the finish some farmyard/horseblanket notes, bit lemony. Acidburn and -thinning, lasting flavours, good carbonation, original and interesting! The blend between lambic (dominant in the nose) and Sour Brown (more dominant in the flavour) is close to perfect balance. Great stuff! Txs to Stef!