7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
0.75l bottle, huge thanks Kuba! Golden body, some white head. Dusty, fresh, spicy-citric aroma, lively and bretty. Lean, dry taste, pine, especially as it warms, citric and bretty notes, bit bitter. Nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2024
at 08:37
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 375 ml shared with Luka and MiroB. Funky, citrus, juicy, medium carbonation, touch of bitterness, moderate acidity, some peach?.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jul 2024
at 08:00
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Blonde ale hopped with Mandarina Bavaria, brewed at Anders for Oud Beersel (one of my favourite lambic producers) - thanks to Gert Christiaens himself for the information. It may seem odd that a lambic producer comes up with an ale, but let us not forget that this phenomenon has a history, not in the least at Oud Beersel itself, which still has its Bersalis brewed at Huyghe. This new one forms a frothy, quite thick, irregularly edged, egg-white, stable, shred-lacing head and shows an initially clear, warm old golden robe with peachy tinge and a whirlwind of enthusiastic sparkling, turning misty later on. Aroma of lightly toasted white bread, dry cereals, unripe peaches in spring, old dried orange peel, wet cardboard, raw beetroot, drying grass, crumbling dry earth, raw cucumber peel, very vague sulfuric note faraway in the background. Spritzy onset due to high effervescence with notable minerally effects, a bit stingy even, covering up already subdued fruity notes of unripe peach, apple peel and courgette; low in sweetness, with supple body. Cereally and lightly toasted-bready malts, generally dry, quite crisp and grainy; slight rooty hop bitterness in the finish with hints of dried mugwort and straw, but also a very faint dried orange peel element, adding a bit to the overall 'fraîcheur'; light earthy and herbal notes join in too. Your typical present-day Belgian blonde but in a crisp, sleek, dry kind of way; I was hoping for more bright Mandarina Bavaria aromas (tangerine) which could really have lifted it up, though. In all, a rather unassuming, but correctly executed summery quencher, which I may even revisit if I come across it somewhere in an outdoors café. But contrary to Bersalis, which is intelligently used in lambic blends at least in some variants, I fail to see this beer's 'raison d'être' a bit, to be honest...
Tried
on 19 Jul 2024
at 22:24
7/10
Tried
on 18 Jul 2024
at 19:04
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I lost count of how many single-flavoured unblended experimental lambics Oud Beersel has produced in the past few years so far – but most of them have proven very entertaining, so I never skip one when I see it advertised somewhere, in this case Bar Beenhouwer (which usually has one on tap). Cheers Meeki! Thinnish, snow white, moussey, opening head on a misty deep yellow-golden robe with somewhat khaki-like tinge. Aroma of freshly cut lemon and lemon zest, freshly mown lawn, lime peel, wood sorrel, fresh spring onion, unripe mandarin, background structures of old wood, stale sweat and pickled gherkins. Refreshingly lemony or lime juice-like onset, citrusy but not overly acidic, softish carb, smooth and somewhat vinous body; dry bread-crusty graininess under drying yet fruity lactic tartness (green apple) and ongoing lime, teaming up with drying woody tannins and the hops – accentuating this bright yellow-green, radiant fruitiness, blending freshly crushed green gooseberry and Granny Smith apple with lime and lemon as well as spring onion and sorrel. Simcoe does not, however, become too oniony here: instead it retains its youthful citrusiness and lends the lambic a beautiful brightness and crispness, accentuating the lemony aspect in a soft, very easily drinkable, colourful way. A little gem, this one – absolutely delicious!
Tried
on 17 Jul 2024
at 15:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Had it fresh, but this tine aged ! Sampled 2024 . Pours rather unclear, no real head. Scent is funky, rather rough lambic. Age shows, but isnt teoublesome. Taste is full, tart dry, very oaky. Oxidation notes - but not bad. The green walnut vibe has faded , remaining as an oily, fullnfewtyre rather than aromatic. Decent. Perhaps a bit too old by now but still perfevtly drinkble, and i might even enjoy it more than fresh. Sweet spot should probably be at around... 7 years?
Tried
on 13 Jul 2024
at 18:39
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared bottle. Ruby red color with off white head. Aroma of cherries, funk, vinous, wood. Taste is powerfull with tons of cherries, funk, vinous, wood, light spices. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2024
at 14:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Shared Bottle. Red color with white head. Strong aroma of cherries, funk, light sourness, wood, Taste is powerfull, cherries, funk, bayrnard, wood, brett. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2024
at 14:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 750ml @ yngwie nyttår 2022
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, funk, tart, barnyard and forest. Taste is light sweet and light sour with a long tart, barnyard, forest and funky finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, funk, tart, barnyard and forest. Taste is light sweet and light sour with a long tart, barnyard, forest and funky finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2024
at 15:31
7.4/10
Botte. Hazy to cloudy yellow color white head. Herbal lemonseop aroma. Taste is lemony with light funk. OK
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2024
at 04:10