De Dolle Speciaal Brouwsel 20

Formerly brewed at De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Oct 2000 Bottle, cork blasts off like a rocket with the little effort. Thick Foam that stays, Aroma is crisp, strong. Acidic,grape, orange,and sweetness.My Glass is full of floating sediment and I still have half a Bottle left, foam continues half way through.I can also taste the sourness and along with the sweet notes.This is not just good its Very Good !

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2005 2000,Corked bottle:Cork explodes off as soon as the cage is turned twice. Penny colored liquid.DENSE,HUGE,head.Delicate aromas(grass,oak,mustiness,). Palate is spritzy,oily,and full.Flavors are balanced to the point of being breathtaking.Sweet and sour mouthfeel are binded perfectly.Caramel,grape,wood,biscuit,and sour flavors.Finish is lightly acidic and has a earthy,sweetness also.Constant bubbles rising to the top.Head subsides til later pours,but doesn’t go away.After yeast pour,got some delicate,spicy,hops in finsh also.This just gets better and better more I drink.Second yeast pour actually,made the sweet flavors more evident because the mustiness hid the sourness a bit.Like my buddy said,serious beer for Belgian beer fans.This would appeal to anyone IMO.Highly recommended.

Due to the long drive from the neighborhood take-home tap house, thus incurring agitation and distress to the beer, the cork popped off like a bomb without assistance. The foam was inevitable: Mountainous and rocky with stellar stick power. Amazing aroma iron, rust, mustiness, and cherry fruitiness. Bordeaux barrel aging is very apparent in the firm feel. Flavors of rust and acid. Finishes astringently and dryish as one is able to imagine. Although this has been aging for some time and the yeast has gone bad, I still found the yeast very tolerable throughout the drink. Too bad I drank this without recording proper notes. This is a serious beer for Belgianheads.

Very lively beer with extreme white head. Orange-brown hazy. Sourish, peppery, soily aroma with hint of cleaning-detergent. Sourish flavor with malt sweetness, almond and some cherry tones. Fruity and bitter. A great beer for OMH:s 4000 jubilee and my 200 th here on Ratebeer.

Orange coloured, pours extremely lively with rich, firm head. Acidic near lambic-ish aroma. Oaky and balsamic, extremely drinkable for an 8% ale. Balanced and immensly flavourful.

UPDATED: NOV 21, 2004 October 2000 bottle. Head is initially huge, frothy, rocky, off-white, excellent lacing, fully lasting. Body is murky dark amber, dense particles of all sizes, bottle conditioned. Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, cookie), lightly hoppy (flowers), moderately yeasty (cobwebs, barnyard), with notes of toffee, orange, cherry, licorice, clove, cask wood, and sugar, hints of vinegar and alcohol. Flavor is heavily sweet, heavily acidic. Finish is moderately acidic, moderately sweet, lightly bitter. Medium body, velvety texture, lively carbonation, lightly alcoholic, lightly astringent. This is the best Flanders sour ale I’ve ever had by FAR, and I’ve sampled a lot (all of the top five here, and many more). The only problem is this was only made once. But yes, this is now a 5.0 beer for me. Imagine that, over 4 years after it was bottled and still absolutely incredible.

Very yeasty and malty aroma, sweet start, bitter, slightly sour finish, quite yeasty aswell, which threw me off it a bit, but given the aroma, it was better than i expected.

Definitely a gusher. Near refrigerator temp it just one dimensionally sour, but as it warmed up it got much better, with cinnamon and liquorice. Decent.

Using a Rodenbach flute, I had the damndest time trying to get a full glass - pour, skim head, pour some more, skim, drink, etc. Of course waiting for the huge rocky head to subside gave the sediment which coated the side of the bottle, time to settle in the bottle. A beautifully, rustic, sour red ale. Bottled in 2000. Aroma of bread,/yeast, fruit and acetic acid. Nice reddish-gold oily appearance. Tart, woody, hints of cherry. Very refreshing and drinkable, Rodenbach fans should love.

More thin-bodied than the Duchesse de B. Nice Flanders red saved for No. 200.