Opal Noyaux
HenkeBier in Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.02
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Opal Noyaux is a blend of two Dutch gerstes macerated on Opal plums and their kernels for a couple of months before being bottled on the 29th of December, 2021.
After trying some plum sours in the past year, I really wanted to try and create one myself. A good friend of mine has some very tasty Opal plums growing in his backyard, and I was very pleased I could use a part of his yearly harvest for my plum beer.
The base beers are, as you know by now, two Gerstes with an average age of 13 months, one being 11 months and the other one being 15 months old. These beers had a very pleasent acidity and a moderate level of funkyness.
The plums I used for this blend were quite small. This has a couple of effects. First of all, you get more flavor from them, so that’s a great start. The fruit intensity of this blend was about 225 grams of plums per liter. These plums also impart a lot of color because of the amount of skin compared to the amount of flesh. The result is a kind of a darker pale gerste with intense plum notes.
After trying some plum sours in the past year, I really wanted to try and create one myself. A good friend of mine has some very tasty Opal plums growing in his backyard, and I was very pleased I could use a part of his yearly harvest for my plum beer.
The base beers are, as you know by now, two Gerstes with an average age of 13 months, one being 11 months and the other one being 15 months old. These beers had a very pleasent acidity and a moderate level of funkyness.
The plums I used for this blend were quite small. This has a couple of effects. First of all, you get more flavor from them, so that’s a great start. The fruit intensity of this blend was about 225 grams of plums per liter. These plums also impart a lot of color because of the amount of skin compared to the amount of flesh. The result is a kind of a darker pale gerste with intense plum notes.
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EvNa (6176) reviewed Opal Noyaux from HenkeBier 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, directly from brewery as part of the February Pack 2022. Color: Lightly hazy orange amber, long lasting off-white head. Aroma: Moderate tart, a lot op fruity plum, a little wild yeast funk. Taste: Moderate tart, funky, again quite a lot of fruity plum, plum skin and kernel. Tannins. Dry-ish and bit creamy mouthfeel. Some fruity bitterness at the finish. Over medium body, below average carbonation. Very well balanced and very nice.
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on 04 Mar 2022
at 20:27