Maakun (16597) reviewed Wild Adam from De Cort 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Slight hazy golden with small white head. Sour apples, glue, funk, dry oak, soft tannins, suphur, smoke, citrus zest. Quite sour, medium bitter and very light sweet. Medium bodied, quite dry. Not very nice but it's drinkeable.
Nisse666 (17733) reviewed 2-Year Unblended Lambik from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Side pull In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst 2024-11-10 Brussels
AR: dry grainy , apple vinegar,
AP: clear coppery, no head
F: dry grainy , apple vinegar,
djd07 (28882) reviewed Wild Adam from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Magnum thanks to Kyle. Pours a hazy yellow gold with small white head that lasts. The aroma is funk, apple skin, wood, floral. Thin body, apple, lemon, funk, wood, nice tartness.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Project Alambic 1 - Whisky Geuze from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Geuze blended with lambics that were matured in whisky barrels - with a complex backstory: De Cort is actually a distillery (of high quality, from what I heard) located in a business site in Pepingen in the Pajottenland region since 2014, but in 2021 decided to join forces with the lambic world and produce this 'whisky geuze'. The lambic was brewed in the same site, but by Brouwerij van 't Pajottenland, which has since then moved to a new site in Gooik (about four miles north) and continues to operate there under its original name Sako, with their own Adelaar brand of lambics. I guess it remains a bit unclear as to who exactly brewed the lambic that went into this whisky geuze, the Sako people or the De Cort people, but an internal source revealed to me today that it was indeed the Sako people, who at the time had their Pajottenland brewery in the same location - hence the placement of this geuze under Pajottenland. Some forceful gushing upon removing the cork but only briefly so - the spouting spontaneously stopped after a couple of seconds. Fizzing, egg-white, loose, rather thin head, opening instantly and leaving a thin rim, but even this rim eventually disappears. Misty yellow blonde robe with somewhat khaki tinge, looking paler than I am used to from the genre; visual sparkling is limited to tiny bubbles, almost invisible to the naked eye, yet numerous and present everywhere. Aroma of rather pronounced vanillin from oak wood and Speyside style whisky, old Reinette apples, freshly cut nettles, sugared (!) lemon juice and a bit of dried lemon peel, yellow plum, grape skin, lilies, fermenting pear juice, old dry sherry, petrichor and something - excusez le mot - fart-like initially pushing through here and there (fortunately very vaguely so and completely vanishing after a while). Sweetish onset (very odd for a geuze) with softly tart edges, too 'mals' as it were, with yellow-fruity notes of oldschool storage apples, yellow plum and white grape, surrounded by this cooked gooseberry-like sour edge, yet, as said, remaining very mals and nowhere really acquiring that lemony streak that makes a typical geuze so refreshing. Carbonation is active but very fine-bubbled and in that sense perhaps a tad too slow for the style; mouthfeel is smooth and full, with a drying effect of a 'deep' lactic tartness being noticeable all the way through, albeit again in a very 'malse' way. Clear white-breadiness under ongoing sweetish and tart yellow fruit, vinous with a white grape-like association persisting, meeting woody tannins in the end as well as that whisky, which has a more drying effect than the wood and the lactic acid combined, even though a true 'alcohol heat' fortunately remains absent. Earthy, 'dusty', moderately funky and old sherry-like aromas rise up retronasally, along with a kind of minerally aspect (petrichor); the whisky accentuates the vanillin in the oak, which is more prominent here than in any other geuze I had. Altogether enjoyable, but a bit crude and unrefined - and very odd if seen like a true geuze, this feels more like some whisky barrel aged blonde sour ale, with a much softer character, less 'volatile' acids, a much sweeter kind of fruitiness and less complexity. This needs a lot of work, Angerik did this concept much better in their first Kluysbosch if you ask me; it does not even look, feel, smell or taste like a credible geuze, though like I mentioned, the whole remains interesting enough to be entertaining and palatable. One of these weird first Sako-related lambic try-outs I guess, but the question remains whether it was them (as Pajottenland) or De Cort who actually performed the brewing and blending; maybe it was a combination of both, but in any case, if we see other lambics by De Cort appear (under this 'Project Alambic' umbrella), then we will know for sure that De Cort deserves its own entry here as a real brewery...
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Oude Lambik from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
17 March 2024. At In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst. Shared with the lovely Anke!
A: clear golden, thin, frothy, off-white head.
A: green apple, oak, hay, straw, wet grass.
T: sour green apple & pear, funky straw.
F: old grassy hops, funky apple, wood, bread.
P: light to medium body, slick texture, flat carbonation.
Easy-going, not too extraordinary Lambic.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Schaarbeekse Kriek from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
5/V/24 - 75cl bottle @ Toer de Geuze, BB: n/a (2024-284) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!
Pretty cloudy deep ruby red beer, creamy dense pink head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of cherries, a little funky, some marzipan, almonds, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very nice, lots of cherries, a little bitter, earthy, funky, acidic, a little oxidized. Aftertaste: dry, bitter, tannins, earthy, lots of cherries, decent!
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Project Alambic 1 - Whisky Geuze from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
5/V/24 - 75cl bottle @ Toer de Geuze, BB: 14/IX/34, bottle N°323, 7.5% (2024-283) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!
Cloudy pale blond to yellow beer, big solid creamy white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: fruity, juicy, apples, some vanilla, citrus, grapefruit, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: nice, gentle acidity, herbal, very minty, earthy touch, spicy, bitter, some tannins. Aftertaste: fruity, a little sweet, sourish, bitter touch, a bit hoppy maybe, tannins, orange peel, a little oxidized, some walnut, alcohol burn.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Oude Lambik from De Cort 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
5/V/24 - sample from bag-in-box @ Toer de Geuze, BB: n/a, 2022 vintage (2024-282) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!
Clear pale yellow blond beer, small aery irregular white head, a little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, some apples, lots of pears, a bit earthy, some tannins, nice! MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: gentle acidity up front, malic acid, a little bitter, apple skin, some tannins, pretty dry. Aftertaste: bitter, lots of apples, pear skin, bitter, a little spicy in the finish.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Wild Adam from De Cort 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
20 August 2022. At 12de Gents Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Pieter & the whole crew!
Hazy ochre, thin, off-white head. Aroma of unripe apricot, sour plum, quince, green apple, lemon, wet straw, sour cream. Taste has sour apricot, plum, quince & apple in a sourdough-like malt body, bit lemony with funky straw. Tart, lemony finish, sour grape, funky apple. Medium body, slick texture, soft carbonation. Decent blend, refreshing.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Wild Adam from De Cort 3 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
26/VII/22 - 75cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ Ardenne Holiday, BB: 20/V/23 (2022-938)
Pretty cloudy blond to light orange beer/cider hybrid, no head. Aroma: lots of apple juice, funky, brett, dry, floral, chemical, a bit weird. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter start, dry, apples, bitter, quite some tannins, pretty sourish. Aftertaste: dry, tannins, pretty bitter, a bit metallic. Not so great.