De Leite Cuvée Copains #1

Cuvée Copains #1

 

De Leite in Oostkamp, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: Brouwerij Oud Beersel
Sour Ale Special
Score
7.07
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 25 Ticks: 10
This blond-sour beer is a blend of a slightly smoked 'Saison' and the Lambiek-type beer by Oud Beersel. The beer further ripened for approximately 6 months in the oak barrels of Brewery De Leite. The result is a beautiful harmony of both noble drinks fused into a new beer. The pleasant sourness is when dinking finished by beautiful bitterness, related in harmony by the refined smokery taste of the Saison and the gorgeous bitter touch of Lambiek. Both brewers are good friends and respect each other beyond boundaries. Luc could, as sole Belgian brewery, present this ‘Cuvée Copains’ in the brewery of his friend during ‘Tour De Geuze’.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled from bottle. must have had it before during Tour De Geuze, but seems like I didn't take notes (or lost them, who's to say) . Pours an unclear amber. Medium sized head, medium to medium high stability. Scent is mostly the lambic funk (including the typical apple aroma of an Oud Beersel! ) , some oak. Taste has surprisingly intense smoke, but it's no overkill, as the lambic joins in later and washes quite a lot of smoke away. Fairly dry. Mild sourness. Quite a bit buttery, but it seems to work in this beer. medium body, medium to medium high, sharp carbo. Hey, there's a smokey beer out there I actually like !

Tried on 21 Jan 2021 at 15:18


7.5

Lovely light stuff. Nice oakiness, got the beersel lambic thing further down. Very easy drinking.

Tried from Bottle from Beer Stand Hiranoya on 28 Sep 2020 at 14:29


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from LDW. Hazy golden colour, white foam. Lactic sourness, some fruity hints, nice tart with light bready notes.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2020 at 10:14


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Frischer, angenehm säuerlicher Beginn. Spritzig, erhöhte Karbonisierung, trocken. Leicht herb, geringe Würzigkeit, angenehm runde Lambiknoten. Trocken, vollmundig, langer Nachhall. 10/11/11/10/9/11

Tried from Bottle on 25 Apr 2020 at 21:35


6

33cl bottle. A clear dark golden beer with a white head. Aroma of tart fruits, apricot, grapes. Taste of mild tart fruits, grapes, herbs.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2020 at 22:10


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

30/08//2019 @ home - 33cl bottle from Willems & Zoon. Clear orange, medium white head. Nose is lambic, wood, lemon, bit vanilla. Taste is sour, lambic, lemon, green apple, wood tannins.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Oct 2019 at 11:12


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

'Versnijbier' of a sour ale by De Leite and Oud Beersel lambic, bottle from Dranken De Moor in Haasdonk. Medium thick, mousy, off-white, large-bubbled, slowly opening and diminishing head, misty peach blonde robe with pale orange hue. Aroma of sour plums, grass silage, raw rhubarb, old jute bags, green gooseberries, kefir, raw cucumber, old apple peel, haystack, raw pineapple. Fruity sourness in the mouth, sour plum, redcurrant, unripe nectarine and gooseberry impressions with a dash of raw cucumber thrown in but also a sweeter apple-ish core; spritzy carb, refreshing. Yoghurty lactic sourness with a thin lemony edge continues to dry a white-bready and lightly rusk-like maltiness, while fruity notes keep abounding towards a somewhat dusty and hayish finish - clearly very lambic-like; a late, deep, earthy hop bitterness shows up after that, again as in lambic, but the finish as a whole comes across as 'cleaner', less funky and more accessible than would typically be the case in a one hundred percent lambic beer. Yoghurty effects linger too. This delivers exactly what it promises: a typical fruity Leite sour with a good portion of lambic thrown in, but the clean, fruity, soft character of Leite's basic beer keeps it all relatively accessible and 'easy'. More than decent, very enjoyable sour in any case, that much is certain.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jul 2019 at 17:59


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Leite / Oud Beersel Cuvée Copains #1 (by De Leite):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.3/5

5/V/19 - sample @ Oud Beersel, Toer de Geuze, BB: n/a - (2019-670)
Clear blond to orange beer, small creamy to irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: malty, funky, lots of grains, hay, hay, bit fruity, non stable. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity start, soft bitterness, some peaches, apricots, bit lemony. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, quite some grapefruit, wood notes, very fruity, more citrus, some butter.

Tried on 05 May 2019 at 22:00


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Oud Beersel. Unclear golden with bright white head. Sweet cheesy parmesan funk, onion bread, tin metallic, butter. Moderate sweet and bitter, light sour. Medium body and soft carbonation.

Tried from Draft on 04 May 2019 at 14:50


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap at Oud Beersel. Bit hazy light golden with white head. Soft cloves, lemon, wheat, light funk, fresh grass, orange peel. Medium sour, light sweet and bitter. Almost medium bodied.

Tried from Draft on 04 May 2019 at 14:36