De Proefbrouwerij Les Deux Brasseurs

Formerly brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Lochristi - Hijfte, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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750ml caged&corked bottle. Pours deep cloudy orange brown with golden tan highlights and a very thick off-white head that leaves tons of dramatic lace on the glass. The aroma is intense and complex - pulpy funky fruit (currants, berries, pineapple), sweet malts, barnyard hay, earthiness, some sourness, spices (caraway seed, grains of paradise), flowers/perfume, and subtle alcohol. A lot going on in there - and strongly brett-tinged throughout. The flavor is much more straight-forward and approachable: bready, crackery malts, pungent earthiness with some fruitiness (berries), and pleasant balancing bitterness. The finish is a little dry with lots of spice, some alcohol, some fruity esters, light brett funk (including some sourness), and a beautiful balance of mostly neutral (somewhat spicy) hop bitterness and cakey malt sweetness. The mouthfeel is surprisingly soft and full bodied with a luscious creamy carbonation. Overall, crazy and damn fine!

Hazy amber orange capped by silky white head. Nose and mouth full of funk and horse hairs. Alchohol kick adds to the fun.

UPDATED: APR 25, 2012 Bottle. Have seen this on the shelves many times and wanted to try it, so I finally did it. Pours hazy amber with a white soapy head that fades to a soapy film and shows some lacing. Aroma has a nice lemon leather and grassy like scents along with some musty sugars/funk. Taste is bitter and slightly funky maybe a little sour, but more farmhouse and funkiness leather and grassy hay like flavors. Palate is medium with a strange stickiness and drying finish. Definitely a good drinker, but don’t go into this one thinking your about to drink a real sour brew. This one is a true wild ale!

The aroma would have me believe that this is the funkiest beer in the world, but the taste proves otherwise as the Brett tang is downplayed and subordinated to a lemony sweetness and a healthy, bready body. Funk throughout, but subtle.

750ml bottle. Hazy amber orange. Aroma of spicy yeast, light brett and rich malt. The flavor is a lot less sour than the aroma would indicate, lots of maltiness with some light hop bitterness and tartness in the finish. Medium body with average carbonation and a dry mouth feel. Pretty good beer, drinks very easy and hides the abv well

Bottle from marcus. Nice sour. Has the typical cherry sour smell. Color is light brown copperish. Great sour.

Draft pour on tap at Bavarian Lodge (Lisle, IL). An exciting find. Pours a rich dulled golden amber hue, some deeper orange glow and a frothy whitish head sits atop, bigger with solid lacing. Aromas are a plethora of funky brett, lemons, and touches of berries, faint cranberry, straw, and bready malts. Gentle funk and gentle spiciness picks up, currants and gentle kisses of cobwebs and barnyard. Gets a bit more life as it warms, picking up more sour fruits. Initial is mellow and medium bodied, touches of berries and lemons mix gently up front. Gentle bretty funk, dust, and cobwebs mingle with bready malts, touches of spice, gentle yeast, and fruity qualities. Touches of apple, pear, and some more gentle sourness. Subtle sourness as brett takes the lead with the bready malts, gentle spice. Middle and finish dry up more, bretty funk and gentle fruits. Brett starts to dry firmly and really integrates well with the fruit, both tart berries and apple/pear sweetness, gentle sourness makes it’s appearance up front but definitely tapers out in the finish. Firm, funky, and pretty nice. Not as sour as I’d hoped, but the wild yeast works well enough here. Interesting, dry finish. Looks gorgeous overall. Flavors come in and out for me. A firm hopping provides synergy for the dry bretty finish. Not bad.

Bottle (rated sometime in 2009). Head is initially large, frothy, rocky, white, fully lasting. Body is hazy light amber. Aroma is lightly malty (grain, cereal, husks), lightly to moderately hoppy (apricot), moderately yeasty (mold, barnyard), with notes of cheese, plastic, vinegar, cotton candy. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly to moderately acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, creamy texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Looks great, but sports the usual dirty Proef nose.

Very clean and backseat malt and hops. Very smooth with a nice sourness ending with a small kick of tartness. Correct carb, 90% clear, aroma is a bit absent but what is there is quite nice. A nice presence of mild wildness before the clean sour.

OnOndraft at Capone’s. Pours a golden straw color with some head that leaves sticky lacing. Nose is yeasty brett. First zip is nice with just the right amount of malt slight sour finish with a slight bitterness.

Location: Draft at RnH, 8/8/11

Aroma: The nose is fairly subtle, some yeast, apple, and honey notes
Appearance: It pours a cloudy golden color with a lacey white head
Flavor: The taste is sort of sweet, slightly tart, and with a mild sourness to it
Palate: This on has a light-medium body to it with a decent mouthfeel
Overall Impression: Overall, I thought this was a solid beer, but it didn’t really have a ton of sourness to it, I was expecting more. It wasn’t bad though.