8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2010-02-15, bb 2023, 7 years old, 8-5-6-3-14=36
Generous pink head, persistent; cloudy red-amber color. Mature aroma, wood, cherry stones, light sourness and light dust. It’s highly carbonated, but smooth as well; the body is weaker than expected; there is a light cherry flavor and sourness; the final is weak and dry.
With the age it lost some body, reduced the sourness and didn’t gain enough complexity.
2006-01-14, 8-5-8-4-16=41
Hazy amber color; giant head, compact; fine and persistent perlage. Strong Lambic aroma, sour, with a sharp cherry note, and cherry kernels, magnesia. Aggressive mouthfeel, sharp, dry, sour, a bit astringent, with just a touch of fruits. Very good!
Generous pink head, persistent; cloudy red-amber color. Mature aroma, wood, cherry stones, light sourness and light dust. It’s highly carbonated, but smooth as well; the body is weaker than expected; there is a light cherry flavor and sourness; the final is weak and dry.
With the age it lost some body, reduced the sourness and didn’t gain enough complexity.
2006-01-14, 8-5-8-4-16=41
Hazy amber color; giant head, compact; fine and persistent perlage. Strong Lambic aroma, sour, with a sharp cherry note, and cherry kernels, magnesia. Aggressive mouthfeel, sharp, dry, sour, a bit astringent, with just a touch of fruits. Very good!
Tried
on 14 Jan 2006
at 08:43
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
One of the best aromas in beer; it includes yeast, and fruit. Flavor is a little sour but not as sour as some, there is an apple cider quality to this beer that makes it a very approachable gueuze. Flavor has citrus fruit, juniper, some malt, and more yeast. A cloudy orange beer with very little sediment. Great beer.
Tried
on 07 Jan 2006
at 21:39
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared with Hunsell at Café Bar Le Duc, ’s Hertogenbosch. Light blond lambic with a creamy white head. Aroma of sour cream and chesse and horseblanket. Puckering sour lambic with aging cave dust and light sour cherries. Rich mix of sour and fruity notes, earthborne flavours from the cave. Excellent. And a steal at 3 euros in a bar. May 1, 2005.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2005
at 22:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Orange-gold; very dense and fine off-white head. Nose of sourish greenery, vegetables in vinegar, as Belgian pickles. Little streak of woodruff, in aroma, not as in the syrup. Some hints of white candi sugar. Infected sweet-sour taste, that ougt to be unwanted. Burning MF, making the drinkability near inexistant. Alcohol is obvious. I feel very bad about this - the reason of this beer is só interesting. And I have blamed Huyghe brewery for near everything - but sofar NEVER of infection, I cannot understand. I will rerate this next time I find another bottle. WAS: 4/4/3/2/7 - 2.0 new tasting 2007 Fine white head, fast reduced to white rim, leaving lace. A bit of diacetyl (not much), coriander (more!), dry grainy nose, white candi sugar, and a sweet-alcoholic finish. Diacetyl all but gone in the taste, coriander is still there. Generally quite sweet-spiced for a tripel, but very alcoholic, liqueurish in character. Each sip again brings a more perfumed complex flavour, difficult to pinpoint. Ends again a bit diacetyl like. Dispite the (alcoholic probably), sweetness, the attenuation is quite tripel like: appearing less heavy than it is. Still a liqueurish smoothness. Definitely better than first try. Sweet-alcoholic it remains.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Dec 2005
at 04:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught, Heads Up, Silverdale WA
Muddy, reddish-brown colour. Fresh but a little syrupy raspberry nose with only a hint of brett. A bit of seedy character, sweet raspberries. Clean...very little lambic character save for some late tartness. With any other label, this wouldn’t feel so wrong, but to use the Oud Beersel name on this confection is regrettable.
Muddy, reddish-brown colour. Fresh but a little syrupy raspberry nose with only a hint of brett. A bit of seedy character, sweet raspberries. Clean...very little lambic character save for some late tartness. With any other label, this wouldn’t feel so wrong, but to use the Oud Beersel name on this confection is regrettable.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2005
at 03:27
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Dark pink/brown beer with a pinkish head. Dusty, fruity aroma. Tart, cherry flavor with lots of dusty earthiness. Clensing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2005
at 21:54
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On draught 9/3/2005 at Anam Cara. Blood red with a lighter, amber tinge to it. Ring of white bubbles is all that appears for a head and there is no lacing left behind. Transluscent clarity. Aroma of red raspberry jam, thick and sweet with vanilla and a touch of dryness. Light raspberry flesh/raspberry seeds. Tartness is fleeting and only faintly perceived. Flavor is quite sweet to start, granted it’s authentic tasting raspberry sweetness. Not syrupy, but the raspberries just don’t leave enough room for other (lambic) character. Actually, on the end, there is some light bacteria, but it’s very faint. Some black pepper, raspberry seeds, celery and plant stalks. Invigorating mouthfeel, lots of tiny CO2 bubbles in there, very compact. Some beaujolais wine-like character and low to moderate acidity, but it seems to come from the raspberries, certainly not any bacteria. No sourness whatsoever. Pretty simple, not worthy of the name, IMHO. Great fruit beer though. . . .
375 mL bottle, best before 6/21/2015 drunk on 1/11/14
Pretty close to the above draft experience. I will reiterate that there is some real raspberry flavor in here, though there is certainly some sugar of some sort in here as well. And that’s fine, they make no promises on the label, simply calling it Framboise. Vegetal notes become pervasive in the aroma, as it breathes, and there is more than enough powdered sugar flavor on the finish. Still, a passable fruit beer. Keeping the numbers unchanged
375 mL bottle, best before 6/21/2015 drunk on 1/11/14
Pretty close to the above draft experience. I will reiterate that there is some real raspberry flavor in here, though there is certainly some sugar of some sort in here as well. And that’s fine, they make no promises on the label, simply calling it Framboise. Vegetal notes become pervasive in the aroma, as it breathes, and there is more than enough powdered sugar flavor on the finish. Still, a passable fruit beer. Keeping the numbers unchanged
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2005
at 12:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Bottle 37,5 cl) Hazy, orangey golden beer with a fairly decent head. Tart and citrusy indeed, but for a traditional gueuze this is almost smooth and soft and almost easy to drink. But then of course it hasn’t got quite the same complexity as the more extreme gueuzes. Still an experience though. 110700
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2005
at 07:15
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Red, hazy colour. Dense, pink head. Acidic aroma with notes of barnyard. Sour taste of cherries and grapefruit. Surprisingly thin.
Tried
on 19 Jul 2005
at 12:34
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
(Bottle 75 cl) In this version called "Kriek Oud-Beersel" at 6% ABV. Faint reddish colour with a smal pink head. The sour , vinegary notes hit you as soon as the cork is removed and the tartness continue all the way through. This is a very traditional sour lambic, but lacks some finesse. Not really any trace of cherries - apart from the colour. 130498 (Bottle 37,5 cl) As "Oude Beersel Oude Kriek" 6/3/6/3/12=3 270601 (Bottle 37,5 cl) 7/4/7/3/13= 3.4 080707
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2005
at 13:16