3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
375ml bottle @biergasthof schiffner. 5 years old. Primary aroma of wild strawberry leaves, which widen and soften over gooseberry and vinegar to an almost caramel scent over time., It’s a headless beauty but nice amber in colour. Just gorgeous in taste, mainly mouthwatering lactic acid. perfect in the sun, even in winter, as it was the case with me...
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
No head retention.
Smooth, sour, definite strawberry aroma.
Round flavor.
Thick, serious sourness.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
375ml bottle (Erasmus, Bruges)
Golden, flat. Strawberry and sour aroma, hint of caramel on warming. Soft palate. Woody, bitter, some honey, and a hint of perfumed soap in the taste - but the overall sensation is that of the sourness and just an aged feel. Of course, there’s some strawberry in the taste too, but it’s not that dominant at all, and quite subtle.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: OCT 7, 2008 2000 bottle. Pours gold with a bit of head. Huge bile aroma, a bit of funk and barnyard. Slightly fruity barnyard flavor, very tart and funky. Finishes very acidic and puckering sour. Just a bit of carbonation.<P<P>fresh bottles of this are just amazing. Loaded with fresh strawberry flavor, and plenty of sourness and funk to go along with it. I just cracked another 2k and that was great as well. This is THE beer that got me into lambics. Cheers to you oudbeitje!
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 37,5 cl. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a small and disappearing head and a fresh aroma with notes of hay and barnyard, I didn’t detect any strawberries in the aroma. The flavor is tart like any good lambic, I noticed some fruitiness, but no specific strawberries. Acidity and sourness are agressive but just enough to keep it drinkable. Nice one
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
2006 Bottle. Pours a lightly hazy golden orange with a very small bubbly white head. Aroma of lambic funkiness, barnyard, horseblanket, brett...and strawberry. Flavor was very funky and tart but also had a bunch of strawberry. Also bready and mouth puckering sour. Could have done without the strawberry but what a great funky base beer.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Poured with a nice hue but head was thin. Nice level of tartness but I yearned for a bit more. Some notes of vinegar. Fruity aromas of apple and pear were very nice. Overall, I thought it was OK, but not great.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 16/20
Yikes, well like their kriek, this one is a wallop of hard acidity, very sour. Virtually no carbonation doesn’t help in keeping that sour whack moving across the tongue, so you get pretty overwhelmed by it. Strawberry is barely detectable, just a hint of berry like fruitiness and sweetness. Color is a dull gold color with no effervescence, no head. A little funk in the background but the acidity pretty much dominates this one. A little hard on the stomach. At one level you wanna like and at another you wanna pour it out.
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