Appel-Blauwe Bes Geuze Limited Edition
Publitasting in Vichte, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
6.71
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Blend met 1,2,3,4,5 en 6 jaarse traditionele lambiek uit de Zennevallei van Brouwerij Eylenbosch (Kobbegem), Brouwerij Sako (Pepingen) en Brouwerij Den Herberg (Halle). Water, gemoute gerst, tarwe, overjaarse hop. Maceratie met appelen & blauwe bessen. Naar idee van Peter Desmet.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
750mL bottle, pours a deep dark burgundy with a small off-white head. Aroma has pungent apple core, huge blueberries, and some buried funk. Flavour is full of intense, rotting apple core, wood glue, gentle funk, and a touch of acidic blueberries. This is pretty rough—so much rotting apple core and wood glue. This isn’t up to speed compared to usual Publitasting lambics. Not egregious, but definitely very far from a top-tier lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2026
at 05:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Hazy purple. Fresh berry character, lots of acidity. The berry character is fairly strong, and the apple note is cidery and is messy, incongruous, in terms of the clash between berry and apple here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2026
at 05:50
5.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Poured from 750mL bottle (2023 vintage). Cloudy purple-ish brown with small off white head. Earthy apple, light blueberry, wood glue, touch of phenolic notes, underlying tartness, rough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2026
at 05:46
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
2023 vintage. 375 ml bottle. Pour a light brownish purple with light head. Aromas of cassis, blueberries, a bit of farmyard, and soft wheaty malts. Flavors of blueberries and green apples with some tart grape skins and sharp wheaty malts.
Tried
from Bottle
at
In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst
on 19 Apr 2026
at 09:44
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6
75cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geeks Winter Gathering. Misty deep purple appearance, white head. Interesting blueberry / apple hybrid.. seems a little jarring at times, can't say the apple is fully welcome but it's tolerated whilst you search for more blueberries. Moderately sweet, nicely sour. Generally decent
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2025
at 19:36
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
1/III/25 - 75cl bottle @ Belgian Beer Geek Gathering (2025 Winter/Spring edition), BB: 31/XII/27 (2025-181) Thanks to Bierridder for sharing the bottle!
Cloudy dark purple beer, small creamy pink head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, blueberries indeed, funky, brett, woody, ok. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, lots of blueberries, some vinegar, woody, tannins, bitter touch. Aftertaste: nice acidity, lots of malic acid, fruity, pleasant finish. Good decent fruit lambic.
Cloudy dark purple beer, small creamy pink head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: fruity, blueberries indeed, funky, brett, woody, ok. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish, lots of blueberries, some vinegar, woody, tannins, bitter touch. Aftertaste: nice acidity, lots of malic acid, fruity, pleasant finish. Good decent fruit lambic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2025
at 17:30
7.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2025
at 17:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Bottle at Belgian Beer Geeks Gathering. Hazy purple/pink. Blueberries, glue, pears, soft funk, oak, vanilla, funk. Medium sweet and sour. Medium bodied. Weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2025
at 17:19
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bouteille 75cl @ Belgian Winter gathering 01 March 2025 – Tim’s place, thanks Siegfried.
Léger rosé/pourpre, col blanc rosé moyen.
Arôme sur un bouquet floral de pommes qui ressort bien avec un léger apport de myrtille en rétro-nasal. Le tout sur un renfort délicat de lambic qui ne brille pas vraiment pour son assemblage.
Palais est sur une base ‘sourish’ assez marqué avec un apport délicat fruité de la myrtille, finement aigrelet avec un léger retrait de pomme acerbe – comme sur d’autres versions le côté lambic/gueuze se retrouve un peu perdu.
Léger rosé/pourpre, col blanc rosé moyen.
Arôme sur un bouquet floral de pommes qui ressort bien avec un léger apport de myrtille en rétro-nasal. Le tout sur un renfort délicat de lambic qui ne brille pas vraiment pour son assemblage.
Palais est sur une base ‘sourish’ assez marqué avec un apport délicat fruité de la myrtille, finement aigrelet avec un léger retrait de pomme acerbe – comme sur d’autres versions le côté lambic/gueuze se retrouve un peu perdu.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2025
at 10:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Very pale pink medium head, reasonably stable over fully opaque dark red purplish beer with indeed pieces of fruit. Fruitaroma, but also banana, diary, and something strangely boozy, or even white spirit like. Warming up, this unwelcome aroma transcends into a whisky-like smell. Quite sour, lactic, fruitacids, and indeed, sour apple, crabapple, appleskins. Fine flavours, if not much aftertaste nor lingering aromas. Fruited buttermilk. Feels almost as Champenoise pearling, further alleviating the already light body, acidthinning, mild acidburn. Not as convincing as some blends.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Café Pardaf
on 12 May 2024
at 08:34