Score
7.51
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Bottle. Bit hazy amber. Sweet malts, oak, yoghurt, light herbal, soft dusty spices with cloves and chili. Nutty too, with some me dusty she ought under the sourness. Medium sweet and sour. Full bodied. Good.
How: Bottle.
Where: MBCC 2023.
Appearance: Hazy dark golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Sour, fruit, yeast, oak, acidic, funk.
Body: Medium body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Sour, fruit, yeast, acidic, funk.
0,75l bottle at home. Bottled 06.02.2022. amber cloudy color, small white head. smells funky, earthy, grassy, stone fruits, bit peppery, lactic, very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes stone fruits, grassy, earthy, peppery, herbal, some rosemary, horse radish, leathery. finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of pepper, horse radish and grassy notes. good stuff, tastes a bit young, rather on the bitter side, non the less a pretty good one
8, 8, 7.5, 7, 7.5
No head; totally clear pale cognac-coloured beer, still. Sour, sour grapes, vinous, unripe fruit, and farmyard-horseblanket. Very outspoken grape flavour, almost as Eiswein, but with a lot more acids. Again lambic-like. Despite the huge acidity and all its consequences, quite slick, even a tad sticky, as sweet(er) strong wine. No carbonation. Outstanding beer, despite the CO² absence. Just, Tommie, don't call this 'bitter'. It isn't, not even in the English way.
‘Coupage’ of a hoppy saison with an aged sour ale; at Ghent Beer Fest. Off-white ring of small, loose bubbles rather than a true head, hazy apricot blonde robe with ‘dirty’-orangey tinge. Aroma of sour apple, unripe mandarin, dried grapefruit peel, green gooseberry, raw rhubarb, dry hay, sherry vinegar, sourdough, lemon zest, wet old oak wood, dust. Very fruity-estery onset, tart with sweetish notes hidden within, sour grape and green apple, unripe plum note, lime-like edge, quite zesty and colourful; soft carb, smooth and bit vinous mouthfeel. Sourdoughy and bread-crumb-like malt core under lingering tart fruitiness (sour grape, gooseberry, rhubarb) gradually acquiring hoppy notes of lemonbalm, old grapefruit peel and hay, indeed adding a bit of citrus pith-like, spicy bitterness, but only very mildly so, in any case much more mild than expected when seeing the name ‘Bitter’; still a very pleasant, accessible but interesting, refreshing and elegant sour ale – as usual from this producer.
20/VIII/22 - 75cl bottle @ Gents Bierfestival, BB: n/a (2022-1074)
Little cloudy orange to amber beer, small creamy off-white head, a little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: very earthy, mineral, fruity notes, lemony, some grapefruit. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: citrus, lemony, bitter, juicy, citrus, lemony, dry and hoppy. Aftertaste: dry, spicy, very acidic, lemony, some vinegar, dry, herbal, good stuff.
Golden colour with thin head. Good amount of funkiness. There's a pleasant light citrus element and a touch of hop. Next to that pleasant acidity. Nicely dry too.