Brouwerij Oud Beersel Lambic Infused with Orange Blossom

Lambic Infused with Orange Blossom

 

Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular
Score
7.07
ABV: 6.8% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Oude Lambiek infused during several weeks with orange blossom
Ingredients: water, barley malt, wheat, hops, orange blossom

The infusion of lambic with orange blossom adds both flowerful and fruity flavors that match perfect with the grapefruit taste of the Oud Beersel lambic.

Een infusie van Oude Lambiek met oranjebloesem
Ingrediënten: water, gerstemout, tarwe, hop, oranjebloesem

De infusie van lambiek met oranjebloesem voegt zowel bloemrijke als fruitige smaken toe die perfect passen bij de pompelmoessmaak in de Oud Beersel lambiek.
 

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

Pours unclear blonde, small white head. Scent is full, funky, not straight up recognizable as orange. Than again, are the blossoms a lot like the actual fruit ? Taste is full, tart, very funky, oak. lambic has the upperhand. nice enough.

Tried on 27 Nov 2021 at 13:59


7

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2021. A clear golden beer. Aroma of tart orange fruits, tangerine. Taste of orange fruits, tart juicy hops, brett, funk.

Tried on 14 Nov 2021 at 12:37


7.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Slight hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of funk, barnyard, old socks, manure and orange. The orange is very present but the funk comes stronger at first. Flavour is moderate sour. Light to medium bodied with very soft carbonation.

Tried from Draft at Billie's Bier Kafétaria on 10 Nov 2021 at 15:49



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

Cloudy gold with a nice white head. Light orange and a touch of funk. Nice orange and a clean finish. No funk or sourness but quite drinkable.

Tried from Draft at Billie's Bier Kafétaria on 31 Oct 2021 at 16:41

gave a cheers!

7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draught Fluffy whitish head over foxy orange beer. Citrus, leather, leathersoap, old wood, orange(peel), resin. Very wry, tart, ultra-dry. Again orangepeel-oil-resin. Dry, traces of leather, farmyard flavours, wood. Only mild acidity. Light body, almost no carbonation, light dry-out effect. Nice - no doubt. But the flavours remind me more of orangepeel than of the flower.

Tried from Draft on 10 Oct 2021 at 07:51


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

One of an ongoing string of flavoured lambics by Oud Beersel, usually very tasty and interesting so I sometimes wonder why none of them has made it into a back-blended, refermented, bottled version so far. This one uses orange blossoms – not something you see every day in beer, let alone lambic. Snow white, moussy, breaking and dissolving head on a largely clear, warm ‘old gold’ beer with pale amberish glow. Aroma of lots of citrus peel (curaçao, dried grapefruit zest) more than a ‘blossomy’ effect, Seville orange even, dry hay, dry bergamot tea bags, bread crust, cracked leather, dried mugwort, dusty attic. Tart onset, orange peel and apple peel notes, minerally side effects in spite of low carb (this is lambic, after all, so none expected anyway), supple cereally and old cracker-like core, the sourness – with fruity edge – increasingly overshadowed by a plant-like (mugwort, bitterroot even), leafy, citrus pith-ridden bitterness, ending astringent in a spicy, curaçao-like way, the astringency further supported by wood tannins and the sheer dryness of the lambic as such. Bone dry, but nevertheless the orange blossom manages to add something fresh to it – even if this refreshing effect is of a bitter citrus pith nature and the blossoms, if actually used, did not provide the perfumey orange orchard effect I was expecting. If Oud Beersel manages to incorporate that effect in this lambic with pure natural means, then a masterpiece will be born. For now: just another interesting experiment in this fascinating series, which is good enough for me.

Tried on 07 Sep 2021 at 12:09


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

25 June 2021. Oud Beersel Tasting @ Vroonstallepark. Cheers to the Ghent Beer Society crew! Clear orange, small, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of unripe orange, mandarin zest, 'tea perfume', (elder)flower. Taste has sweet-sour orange & plum; flowery & wheaty accents. Tart finish, stonefruit end & orange, some bitter fruity hops & drying tannins. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation.

Tried on 18 Jul 2021 at 14:35


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

25/VI/21 - 3.1L bag-in-box from the brewery @ Gentse Biervereniging lambiektasting, BB: 27/X/22 (2021-530)

Clear deep orange beer, no head. Aroma: very floral, sweet ripe stone fruits, very perfumey. MF: soft carbon or at least something prickling, medium body. Taste: very fruity, very bitter, a bit resinous, dry, soapy, very very soapy, rather unpleasant. Aftertaste: resinous, more soapy bitterness, dry, very wry, unpleasant bitterness, don’t like it...

Tried from Cask at Oud Beersel Brewery on 25 Jun 2021 at 19:00