Xmas bottleshare @ Gijs. Pours a dark golden to amber body. Aroma: sour, along with some wood retronasal. Flavour is very sour. Light bodied. Not (very) subtle.

12/X/24 - 75cl bottle @ 1ste Kwatrechts Bierfestival by Gentse Biervereniging, BB: n/a (2024-1127)

Clear red to orange beer, no head. Aroma: nice, fruity, grapes, yeasty, a bit sourish impression. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, lemony, a little bitter, acidic, some vinegar, more lemon juice. Aftertaste: pretty acidic, nice, good bitterness, a bit mineral, no pepper though? Nice beer.

17/VIII/24 - 75cl bottle @ GBV No-Festival-Bottle-Share, BB: +20Y, bottled: VIII/2023, blend: 61 (2024-763) Thanks to John for sharing the bottle!

Clear to little cloudy yellow blond beer, small creamy yellowish head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice, funky, a bit dusty, earthy, some sulphur, sewer even, ooh… Not so pleasant. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sour start, lemony, pretty clean acidity, a bitter touch, a bit grassy, decent one. Better than the Carnivale 2024.

17/VIII/24 - 75cl bottle @ GBV No-Festival-Bottle-Share, BB: +20Y, bottled: VI/2024, blend: 69 (2024-762) Thanks to John for sharing the bottle!

Pretty cloudy amber beer, practically no head. Aroma: meaty, very rural, earthy, wood notes, peppery touch. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: acidic, lemony, earthy, bitter, hint of diacetyl. Aftertaste: sourish, a bit watery, lemony touch, fruity notes, some vinegar, ok. Not great. Yet? Will definitely benefit from some extra time in the bottle!

I had no idea this blend, created live at this year's Gents Bierfestival, was rateable at all, but considering Pomphuizeke is now finally going to the market soon and considering this beer will be bottled and sold, I guess it cannot do any harm to rate it - from memory, as I did not take any notes. No head whatsoever (indeed made from 'flat' draught beers), misty pale caramel brown robe with ruddy glow. Aroma immediately recognisable as a blend of oud bruin and lambic: passionfruit, sour grapes, old wood, dry old sherry, medlar, red plum, raspberry vinegar, stewed rhubarb, very dry red wine, wild apples. Tart onset, very lactic and very fruity, lots of sour grape, gooseberry, red plum and green apple effects with lemony edge but also a 'malse' quality keeping things supple and vinous; lambic is gradually pushed aside a bit by the oud bruin in the form of nutty and lightly caramelly maltiness piercing through lactic and fruity acidity, then returns in the end when a touch of De Troch's bitter plant-like quality as well as Lindemans' elegance come to the foreground, in a rustic woody context where all the acids nicely linger alongside each other. Long, vinous, complex finish - a very clever blend, John Versyck obviously knows what he is doing, and like I told him at the festival, this deserves to be bottled and cellared, I really wonder what can come out of that after a year or so. So here we are John, my first official rating of one of your blends - I hope many more will follow, good luck with the project!