Aged Pale Barrel Reserve - Bourgogne Bifidus Sour
Rolling Hills Brouwcompagnie (Formerly Known As Petre Devos) in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Score
7.17
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Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Donkergeel troebel bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is fris fruitig en licht zuur met iets van witte wijn, bessen en bramen. Best wel ok.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours slightly hazed blonde. No real head. Scent is very full, complex, almost like a lambic in terms of complexity. Taste is tart, sharp, buttery, oak, funky, brett. Complex. Yoghurty acidity. Nice, very culinairy beer.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Blonde ale by Rolling Hills fermented with Bifidobacterium, the anaerobic bacterium turning glucose into lactic acid and acetic acid, sometimes used in yoghurt (and frankly I never saw this one explicitly advertised in any sour beer so far, though it doubtlessly occurs naturally in many sours); the beer was then aged in French oak barrels, in the end creating an 'aged pale', probably inspired by the Petrus Aged Pale that made Bavik famous in American craft beer circles a couple of decades ago. Thinnish but regular, off-white, delicately 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, opening head over an initially crystal clear, apricot blonde beer with warm old-golden glow, turning misty and a bit more orangey with sediment. Strong bouquet of indeed artisanal Romanian yoghurt, 'Fromage de Herve', sweaty feet, wet oak wood including its vanillin scent, raw radish, lemon juice, goat cheese, dry white wine, green apple, yellow plum, gooseberry, wet hay, sour grapes, clay, volatile touches of strawberry, homemade vinegar, lime, musty cellar. Very estery onset, lots of sour fruits like green gooseberry, green plum and green apple, but also hints of pear and peach, notably tart and very lemony as well, even actually tasting like lime juice at first; refined but active carbonation only accentuates the sourness, which evolves into a thoroughly yoghurty lactic acidity, but also - as expected - a sharper vinagery streak. Rounded pale malty core, white-bready, severely dried by the acids but also richly adorned by all that fruitiness, which in itself is soon amplified by the barrel treatment, adding a very white grape-like factor to the whole. Woody tannins in turn reinforce the dryness established by the acids, but the latter burn through it all, with a homemade fruit vinegar-like aspect piercing deep into the finish; vague floral notes are present, but it is this sharper yoghurty lactic acidity, carrying all that radiant yellow-green fruitiness on its back, which gets the last word. Puckering sourness from beginning to end here, with very lemon- and lime-like effects, but compared with e.g. many American sour ales, this certainly stands the comparison favourably - or even tops many of those. 'Le goût américain', as Boon says - but a tad too acidic and vinegary for me to fully enjoy. Very interesting and memorable creation, though - perhaps one to store away in a deep corner of the cellar to forget for a year or ten, like I once did with Petrus Aged Pale, with delicious results...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Color: Hazy orange, white head. Aroma: Strong rural funk, fruity grape, vinuous. Taste: Moderate tart, strong rural funk, fruity notes of grape and citrus, oak wood. Dry-ish finish. Light sweetness, very light bitterness. Medium body, below average carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Golden colour with light haze and thin head. Aroma and flavour are super funky. There's also a woody barrel tart acidity too.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
Leicht erhöhte Karbonisierung. Hellmalzig säuerlicher Beginn, monoton, leicht getreidig. Herb-säuerlicher Abgang. 9/7/7/8/7/7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2023 Blend Medium to good just off-white head over well-carbonated orangeish golden beer. Orangerind, citrus, and Bretts. Lactic acid, horseblanket, lemonaroma growing. Hints at leathergrease. Lemon, horseblanket, farmyard. Citruspeel, green fruits, green kiwifruit, green banana. Lipsmacking acidity, dry-out effect, acidthinning and light -burn. Good carbonation. Excellent! Lambic quality without being it. In my experience, the very first bifidus beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy orange colour, white foam. Nose of balsamic vinegar, wood, oak, fruity, lactic sourness. Nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Zythos 2023. Pours a dull amber with light head. Aromas of stoned fruit, tart berries and toasted malts. Flavors follow same with additional grapes and more berries. Not getting much wine influence but still very nice.