7.3

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pour at If It Ain't Dutch. Hazy pink tinged red. Thin white head sticks to the rim. Aroma is sour- berries and citrus. Apiyhy edge. Flavourwise it's dry and sour. Vinous and berries. Light. Thin. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle pour at dutch bar bermondsey. Batch 4 5.7% a translucent pinkish red coloured pour with a a halo of pixkosh head. Aroma is dryish, rose petal, po perrie, funky, barrel staves, floral, bark. Flavour is composed of dry tart, rose, bark, some hibiscus woody funk, bark grape funk. Palate is super crisp, tart, powdery. Carbonation. Nice.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle pour at MBCC 2025 (Yellow session), pours a cloudy bright reddish pink with a small white head. Aroma is loaded with beets, subtle wild yeast, and bready notes. Fpapgir is dominated by the beets, with earthy notes, bugs, and more beets. Earthy, dry, and buggy. Competent for what it is.

6

MBCC 2025. Session #1
Veeery tannic and dry. Meh.
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6.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at MBCC 2025, yellow session. Pours murky red-oramge with a white head. Lots of vegetal beets on the nose. Flavour has pickled beets, grass, moderate acidity. Okay.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is tart fruits, herbal, rye bread, dough, plenty of beetroot, funk, vegetable. Flavour is moderate sweet and light sour. Body is medium. Surprising and obscure with lots of beets, some funk. Nice!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle. I think this is slightly different from the first batch. Nice clear bottle as well. Lots of typical Nevel funk, but the earthy beets and absinthe really add a new dimension and also work very well together. Lovely.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle @ home. Clear red/orange body under a big off-white head. Aroma is funky acidic with distinct beetroot, mild wood and a herbal touch. Taste is sour, malty, funk, wood, earthy, distinct beetroot, slightly herbal and red berries. Balanced body with a tart, funky beetroot aftertaste. Interesting with the beetroot part in this kind of beer, still I think the beer part is better alone without the beetroot flavor.

7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Sour ale by Nevel containing beetroot and common (absinthe) wormwood, the same ingredients as in batch #3 apparently so I am assuming it is the same beer. From a colourless bottle shared by Craftmember, cheers! Some slow gushing initially but nothing too dramatic. Moussy, very pale lilac-tinged white head, initially thick but thinning and dissolving; misty vermillion red robe with salmon-pinkish tinge and lots of red-coloured, relatively large flakes of protein coloured by beetroot (or actual beetroot?) floating around everywhere – an unusual sight for a beer, in all. Aroma of indeed clear (glazed) beetroot including a subtle touch of its earthiness, carrot leaves, rosehip, dried tomato peel, pomegranate, grape skin, hints of young green tree leaves, rosé wine, blood orange and yoghurt. Tart onset but not harshly sour, slender and fruity with a sweetish beetroot flavour clear enough from the start, some ripe red plum and even blood orange accents, softish carbonation; yoghurty tartness from lactic bacteria continues round a lean, bit vinous body of pale maltiness, buried under that sweetish and slightly earthy beetroot, a rosé wine-like estery fruitiness and elements of rosehip and pomegranate – but hardly any wormwood. Only in the finish does a mild wormwood-tinged bitter element show up, but it remains completely subordinate to this colourful, remarkably fruity, yoghurty-tart beetroot and lactic acid combo, remaining refreshing and frivolous. Light-bodied and light-hearted but original, summery, refinedly elegant, almost ‘feminine’ flavoured sour ale, better than expected even – and in many ways a typical Nevel product.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

375 ml green bottle, batch #3, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 5.5%. Hazy ancient pink colour, no head. Aroma of lactic acid and lemons, only a hint of beetroot and absinthe. Flavour with the same elements, medium sour, but the beetroot and absinthe / wormwood are more distinct now. Moderate bitterness. Quite interesting.