7.8/10
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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!
Tried
from Bottle
from Het Huis van de Geuze
on 14 Jan 2026
at 18:58
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2025
at 17:44
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2025
at 17:56
7.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2025
at 19:59
8/10
Another nice Belgian raw ale
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2025
at 12:03
8/10
Belgian raw ale. Quite nice! I should've gotten more. Earthy. Funky.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2025
at 17:46
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2024
at 17:34
7.4/10
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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.
Tried
on 28 Oct 2024
at 08:06
7.8/10
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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 !
Tried
on 10 Oct 2024
at 05:15
7/10
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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!
Tried
from Bottle
at
Café Pardaf
on 07 Aug 2024
at 07:33