Zlotta (9960) reviewed Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
0.33 l bottle from 'Het Huis van de Geuze', best before 2027. Hazy, golden with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, white head. Sweetish, slightly sourish, rather fruity-floral, a little funky and a bit spicy aroma of gooseberry, prickly pear, blood orange, hay and hibiscus. Gently sweet, moderately bitter, minimally sourish, rather fruity-floral, a bit funky and a little spicy taste of blood orange, gooseberry, prickly pear, hay, hibiscus and lemon, followed by a medium long, gently bitter, a little tartish and a bit dry finish. Medium body, minimally astringent and gently effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. Massively refreshing brew, very well-balanced, quite complex for what it is. Really nice!
Szeppp (7592) ticked Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 8 months ago
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
7/3/2025. Bottle shared by minutemat, cheers! Pours clear dark amber brown with a short lasting off-white head. Aroma is funky, herbal, hedgerow, green rhubarb, citrus, gooseberry, vinous, dusty, yeast. Taste has vinaigrette sours, with moderate sweetness. Medium body, light carbonation. Likeable.
Maakun (16597) reviewed Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Slight hazy golden with small head. Wheat, sour citrus zest, light glue, oak, grain husks, soft alcohol, bitter medical herbs, dusty. Medium sweet and bitter, light sour. Medium bodied with dry finish. A bit weird, I liked the other two beers in this series better.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle from Poperinge Bierfestival. Pours unclear golden orange, thin sparse covering of bubbly foam atop. Wild acetic nose. Flavour profile presents an initial sip of acetic farmhouse elements, sour touch with herbal notes, grainy malt emerging forth with a vinegary sweetness coursing through with a lactic kick at the back of the palate. Refreshing wild ale but seems to lack focus and finesse.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Woudwolf from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml pour @ Poperinge Bier Festival 2024. Was quite interesting to hear Huis Van de Geuze owner Yves Panneels talk about this project between his son and Glenn Alvinne. Essentially resurrecting a very primitive style of beer by heating the wort only to 80 degrees, not boiling, and fermenting with kveik. Pours a misty gold, large white head. Flavoursome, cutting kveik pineapple and exotic notes which dominate over the juniper berry. Perhaps another strain would allow the juniper to shine a little more. Bright effervescence allowing floral suggestions to emerge on the finish. Interesting beer, but not a lot to distinguish it style-wise due to the overriding kveik elements.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Vuurvos from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Pours a clear blonde. Medium small, stable white head. Overripe apple scent fills the room. Upon actual nosing, the beer is far more complex. Spicy ( from the yeast phenols) , malty, mild acidic expectations. Taste is tart and dry-ish, complex yeasty phenols, maltyness (cornflake aspect) overripe fruit , oaky. Hogher carbonation sharpens the beer, and mutes the intensity it does deliver beneath. Makes me think of cuvee jeune homme ( which is a big compliment) but more complex and spiced. Nice !
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Woudwolf from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bit fluffy white head, stable and leaving lace over faintly veiled pale amber beer. End of bottle solid deposit. Gin, ginger and gingercookies in the nose. Maybe some conifer - no doubt the juniperberries. Soft bitterness and ditto sweetness with a slightly wryish, ginger-ish flavour. I can only connect it to the juniper or the kveik - certainly not mulberry. Medium bodied at least, good carbonation, slick. Some faint alcoholwarming. OK, but Vanmol have done better with kveik. From the blurb: De Woudwolf schuimt de bossen af op zoek naar gerst en boekweit en verschalkt daarbij jeneverbessen en schichtige moerbeien. Gawdelpus! A vegan wolf, all this world needed!
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Woudwolf from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Interesting new(ish) product by Vrijstaat Vanmol, intended as a kind of ‘fantasy historical’ beer: it is a raw ale to begin with, a practice long abandoned except for certain very local and ‘remote’ traditions here and there; it is fermented with kveik, the ancient yeast strain group from northern and eastern Europe disclosed to a larger audience only relatively recently; and it is flavoured with juniper berries and mulberries which represents the ‘fantasy’ part as these are hardly common ingredients in beer today. Snow white, moussey, thinning head on an initially clear, deep warm yellow-golden robe, misty and a bit ochre-tinged with sediment. Odd but not necessarily unattractive aroma of indeed juniper berry in a very ethereal and herbal way, also inciting impressions of raw parsnip and angelica, next to raw nettles, dry green peppercorns, chicory salad, canned tomato soup, grilled pear, some band aid, white bread. Fruity, sweetish onset with a mild fruity tartness from the mulberries, hints of pear and pineapple as well as oxidized green apple flesh and cooked gooseberries, medium carbonated; sweetish cereally maltiness, sleek with sugary-sweetish ripe fruit effects (the mulberries again) and, further on, herbaceous and bitterish spicy effects from the juniper berries. The combination of these ingredients with the kveik creates odd impressions of raw celeriac, curry powder, angelica, raw cinnamon and sweet tomato – while hop bitterness remains low. Ends herbal and mildly tart. Weird but admittedly fascinating beer – a worthy addition to the other oddities this project has created earlier, such as that blood orange one…
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Woudwolf from Vrijstaat Vanmol Brewing 1 year ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
23/VII/24 - 33cl bottle @ Alengrin’s place, BB: I/2027, W23.1267 (2024-578) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear gold orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: a bit chemical, a little fruity, earthy, funky, some band-aid, some solvents. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour, some pineapple, a little bitter, grassy, a bit herbal, grains, a bit wry. Aftertaste: sourish, dry, a bit lemony, funky, a bit spicy, sweet touch, more pineapple, a bit chemical, interesting but weird, but interesting, but not great alas.