7.4

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

Bottle pour, taster. @MBCC 2022, Copenhagen (Denmark). 14/05/2022 [#5.068 Global - #287 Netherlands - #3 Tommie Sjef Wild Ales] Pours dark golden with a white head. Good retention. Aroma: cheese, funk and oak barrels. Taste: wild yeast, oak barrels, some barnyard and funk. Medium tartness and acidity. Next one please!

7.6

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

Bottle pour, taster. @MBCC 2022, Copenhagen (Denmark). 14/05/2022 [#5.067 Global - #286 Netherlands - #2 Tommie Sjef Wild Ales] Pours orange with a small white head. Aroma: Brett, apricot, oak barrels and funk. Taste: Oak barrels, wild yeast, plums and orange juice. Apple must and spiced malts. Next one please!

7.4

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

Bottle pour, taster. @MBCC 2022, Copenhagen (Denmark). 13/05/2022 [#4.915 Global - #285 Netherlands - #1 Tommie Sjef (My Dutch brewery #99)] Pours orange with no head. Wood barrels, amontillado and soft cherry. Good acidity. Some vinegar. Nice. Next one please!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

0,75l bottle at home. Bottled 116/400. Bottled 6-02-2016. redish hazy color, small white head. smells berries, wood, light yoghurt, rather grape forward, hints of strawberries, lovely funk, stone fruits. lovely smell. medium body, soft carbonation. tastes of grapes, funk, lactic, berries notes, spices, peppery, oak, citric, grassy, stone fruits. finishes dry and light to medium sour with notes of berry notes, stone fruits and some lactic notes. very nice one, obviously strawberries are hard in sour beers, but the balance on this is great.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

0,75l bottle at home. Vintage 2020. BB 24.10.2030. yellow murky color, small white head. smells parfumy, minty, peppermint, herbal, grassy, hay. very nice smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, grassy, herbal, oak, bit funky, spices, some stone fruits. finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of citrus, herbs and some hay. very nice one, great balance, very good to drink.

8.6

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Clear deep ruby with small pink head. Lovely sour cherries, almonds, wheat, a touch of funk, a touch of oak. Medium sweet, almost medium sour, light bitter. Over medium bodied. Lovely.

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Each year, young Dutch ‘sour superstar’ Tommie Sjef launches a special blend in magnum bottles, this time called “Als Water” – because it supposedly ‘drinks like water’, though I hope not. Thanks to the Dutch guy willing enough to share his bottle at Verzet’s New Year’s reception last Saturday in Anzegem. Snow white, moussy, opening but generally stable head, misty warm orange-glowing peach blonde robe. Aroma of gooseberry jam, apricot skin, stewed rhubarb, fruit yoghurt, fermenting orange juice, unripe nectarine, sourdough, pineapple juice, maturing green grapes, dry cider. Tart onset with a sweetish core, very fruity, peach, green apple, ripe gooseberry and white grape mingled with rhubarb and pineapple accents, medium carb, smooth body – but clearly fuller than water, thankfully… Bready to lightly biscuity maltiness soaked in fruity tartness and very (unsugared) yoghurt-like lactic sourness, with the softness of the malts keeping the overall tartness in check; ends vinous and grapey, with a woody undertone, drying lactic effects and lingering malt sweetishness. Very delicate, fruity-estery sour ale, beautifully balanced and polished without added frills – one of the purest, most ‘complete’ and elegant Tommie Sjef sours I had to date.

7.5

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

Pours a medium dark Ambergold. Clear, with very small to no white head. Scent is full, funky, fresh, wood, minor fruityness. Very balanced. Taste is full, very fresh, zesty lemonacidity, drying lactic acid, but balanced in the sours (these and others, even a minor touch of acetic acid) . Mild oak, some funk. A very nice and balanced sour ale. Not a true lambic ( less funk for sure) - but they don't call it a lambic themselves. Only confused enthusiasts do. Great for what it is, but as always I feel it's a bit overhyped.

8

EB winter blind tasting.