Bzart Ciderlambiek Millésime
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Cider - Graff Regular|
Score
7.36
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Cidre Brut
Blend of 60% Lambic and 40% cider as base. Otherwise, the same steps were followed as for the Bzart 2023, i.e. addition of 'liqueur de tirage', then 'remuage' and 'dégorgement', and no addition of 'liqueur d'expédition'.
Blend of 60% Lambic and 40% cider as base. Otherwise, the same steps were followed as for the Bzart 2023, i.e. addition of 'liqueur de tirage', then 'remuage' and 'dégorgement', and no addition of 'liqueur d'expédition'.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
0.75 l bottle from 'Het Huis van de Geuze', 2023 vintage. Slightly hazy, golden with a medium large, slightly fluffy, quickly diminishing, white head. Slightly sweetish, sourish, heavily funky and rather fruity aroma of overripe lemon, apple, quite some horse blanket, gooseberry and some oak. A little sweetish, gently sour, fairly dry, quite funky and rather fruity taste of horse blanket, apple, oak, overripe lemon, a touch of gooseberry and hints of white pepper, followed by a medium long, gently tart, fairly woody-dry finish. Medium body, slightly astringent and rather effervescent mouthfeel, lively carbonation. Superbly crafted beverage, quite complex but also highly drinkable. Serves perfectly as an apéritif, or just as a thirst-quencher in the summer.
Tried
from Bottle
from Het Huis van de Geuze
on 09 Jan 2026
at 17:34
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, pours a hazy golden with a medium white head. Aroma has a nice funky character, lots of champagne-like effervescence, and hay. Flavour is full of apple core and skins, lots of champagne-like effervescence, moderate funk, and a little hay. Highly carbonated, finishing funky with plenty of apple core. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Oud Beersel Brewery
on 14 Aug 2025
at 05:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Hazy, pale amber. Big leathery accents, with light cider to it. But the lambic certainly dominates on the nose. Leathery, dry, the apple just shows a bit here, in the finish, and the malolactic hits in that context. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Aug 2025
at 05:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 750mL bottle. Lightly hazed yellow gold with small white head. Feint funk, nice blend of apple core cider and mild lambic notes with a soft carbonation. Blends nicely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2025
at 05:54
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours a very foamy, clear blonde. The big (huge) white foam is stable and pillowy. Scent is funky, full OB lambic -which I always deem very apple-like, obvisously that part is now greatly enhanced - But I did fear it clashing, which it doesn't (not in the aroma at least) it works like a charm and enhances the lambic. Raw, funky appleskins. Lovely ! Taste is more cider-oriented than the aroma. Still, lambic isn't a lightweight in the balance, but it's not as overpowering as in the aroma. More room has been given to cider, the funky apples (skins), raw tannic fruityness, but the acidity (well balanced, we all know OB!) together with the funk and wood from the lambic, really does work beautifully. Even the carbonation (yes, this is very highly carbonated) - the fine champagne bubbles are the reason I've personally always used champagne yeast for refermentation in my homebrews. At this level though, it's not only the fine pearls (which I simply prefer over bombastic, big bubbles like BE style tripels tend to have) , it's also refinement. Trough the looks of the bottle, the feel of the bubbles, but in this specific case, also the taste itself. I'm not gonna hide the facts I had my doubts about this one, and I've been proving wrong. This turned out the best possible way !
Tried
on 05 Aug 2025
at 18:59