jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy blond colour, white creamy foam. Nose of honey, some citrus. Sweet, fruity with medium bitter finish. Interesting and very easy drinkable.
Lameth (4904) reviewed Cydonia Barocca from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Deep golden color and a nice white head. Malty, caramel nose. Taste is grainy-malty, yeasty, toffee with a citric twist.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown colour, beige foam. Dry, roasty with notes of coffee, light roasty bitter, very dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Very dense & thick, whipped eggwhite-like head, quite stable (!) over cold hazed orange-golden beer. End of bottle full of suspension. Vinous, peppery, lightly toasted malts, hints @ lactic acid. Very fine, delicated acidic flavour with lemon, Lindenblossom, lactic acid, cucumber. Finish, and certainly warming up, bit honeyish flavour. Acidburn and -thinning, spritzy carbonation, certain oily slickness or film. Bit sharp, but still quite nice blonde sour. I do prefer their 'red' ales, all the same.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Hul Extra Stout from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Good cream-tan head, stable, over virtually black-opaque beer. Liquorice, ink, roast, some sweetness suggested. Cigarette ash in the mouth, roast, dry, again liquorice but without excess sweetness. Malt & roast malt underneath. Quite slick, rather well bodied; good carbonation, bit chewy. Meritorious. Probably better than the historical original. Yet, I prefer the Oud Bruins from these guys vastly!
Rubin77 (10243) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from Bio-Planet Jambes Supermarket in Namur. F: slow manageable gusher! medium, off-white, good retention. C: reddish, hazy. A: sour cherries, blueberries, red berries, beetroot. T: light sour fruity, cherries, beetroot, blueberries, redcurrants, medium to high carbonation, interesting idea here lager BA, good balanced beer, enjoyable.
nathanvc (7053) reviewed Flora Sour Cherry from De Wilde Brouwers 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
23 March 2023. At Micheline, Ghent. Cheers to the Teamleader crew!
A: clear red, small, foamy, off-white head.
A: sour cherry, cherry juice, beetroot, lemon, earth.
T: sour cherry, bitter cherry skin, beetroot, grain, old bread.
F: soft earthy hops, old sour cherry, bitter grain & yeast.
P: medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation.
Refreshing and an enjoyable concept, but a bit too dirty.
jefverstraete (7491) reviewed Flora 3.5 from De Wilde Brouwers 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Light sweet, some cereals, nose of flowers, hoppy bitter finish. Ok lager.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hul Extra Stout from De Wilde Brouwers 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
During remediation work in the ground beneath the brewery, the Wilde Brouwers stumbled upon old bottles of Hul Extra Stout, apparently an export stout once brewed by Brouwerij Hul in Merelbeke (where Wilde Brouwers are situated); this brewery, originally called L'Ancre until it was taken over by Auguste Van Hul in 1932, ceased activities in 1963, so one can imagine how old these bottles must have been. Export stouts were quite a rarity in Belgium in those days, with most stout brewed here being low-alcohol milk stouts (compare with the English classic in this genre, Mackeson), and with the popularity of strong stouts nowadays, I think it was a brilliant idea to try and recreate this historical beer. Thick and frothy, foamy, cobweb-lacing, pale greyish beige, stable head on a black beer with deep mahogany brown edges. Aroma of coffee grounds, burnt wood, charcoal, cigars, old liquorice, dried porcini, nutmeg, black peppercorns. Dry onset, something lightly astringent even, very low in sweetness with dried prune hints mingled with a subtle umami effect (porcini); medium carb with rounded, slick mouthfeel. Burnt toast, roasted walnut and eventually chicory fill the mouth, with leathery and spicy accents (clove, black pepper) and something ashy in the finish; leafy hops and a touch of earthy yeastiness further fill a long, roasty, dry, bit ashy and coffeeish finish. This is as old school as it gets: it is probably a bit hoppier and stronger - or, if you will, 'modern' - than the original was, because after all they had no fresh beer to go by and did not use the yeast from the original, but it does convey a very 'old school' feeling which I absolutely love in an old genre (or group of genres) like stout. In trying to grasp what a twentieth-century export stout tasted like, Wilde Brouwers did a very good job if you ask me; I heard that they are still looking for people old enough to have enjoyed the original version back in the mid-twentieth-century and I seriously doubt if they can still find some local octogenarian with a memory vivid enough to recall this beer, but I pray that they do. Very solid and very old-fashioned stout, an important addition to this interesting brewery's range if you ask me.
mike_77 (15880) reviewed Special Tony from De Wilde Brouwers 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Very pale blond colour with thin head. Aroma is grassy and hoppy. Tastes mostly of yeast. Not really sour. Dry finish. Closer to a Saison.