Struiselensis

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

Aroma:Sour. Kind of like sour apples. Appearance:Gold in color, slightly hazy. Taste:This beer is really quite sour. It’s got some wine flavors. There are apple notes. Palate:Pretty harsh and astringent. Overall:This is an amazing wild ale, and is a great sour Belgian ale.

pours a dirty hazy yellow brown with a small white head. The aroma has red fruit, sweat, onion, honey, straw, and earthy tones. The flavor has a tun of sweat. Raspberry candy, straw, mushroom, a little smoke, dries grass and spice. Nice mouth feel. Very nice

Bottle. Pours very slightly hazy gold, thin white head, soft/spotty lacing. Nose is tart lemons and grapefruit, nice funk, leather and sweat, some real earth and apples here too. Cheese and raspberries, wrapped in a horseblanket. Flavours are spicy and sweaty, real mouth-watering sweatiness here. Light fruit and funky bread, but mostly the straight sweat. I dig this.

Bottle shared by RangledeFreak brought at Kulminator, thanks buddy! Pours hazy yellow-orange with a white head. It has a sour but also quite sweet aroma of apples and lemon with a faint hint of dirt. Flavour is slightly sour but mellow, with notes of apples, grape and wood.

[Bottle, thanks Guerde!] Pours hazy brownish-amber with a tiny off-white head. Aroma is funky, with underlying sweetness, vinegar, peaches, and some mustard. Quite sour--not extremely so like FouFoune, but definitely has a bit of a bite--also big funkiness, lots of peach again, and white grapefruit. Dry, medium mouthfeel, long finish. This really was not that exciting when it was young, but age has done wonders. Very nice beer. Thanks again, Andy!

Clear golden pour with a frothy whit head that lingers nicely. The aroma is huge citrus- lemon and sour funk to the max. The flavor is amazing- lemon, orange, cheese, and musty dryness make an incredible arrangement. Uber dry palate with perfect caressing carbonation.

Bottle, 6%. Citric aroma, a bit of citric, teaish fruit. Almost clear dark golden colour. Small stable white head. The flavour is distinctly acidic, lemony. Clean acidity. There is also a clear metallic note, especially in the aftertaste. Not so good, but it fades away after a bit.

From notes, 05/2010. Clear yellow pour, but sits a golden orange in the glass (an old jar). Interesting bubbling carbonation, but little to no head and no lacing. Fairly restrained in the nose. Some straw, citrus, and crisp apple. Minor vinegar. A good bit of lacto sourness. As others have mentioned, this one has been aging nicely, and I’m sad to see my last bottle go. Very clean tartness, like biting into a golden delicious. Some dryness on the finish, accompanied by lemon zest. Refreshing and drinkable. Low to medium carbonation, which feels just right. Dry finish. A delicious beer, and just what I’ve been craving. One of my favorites of this year (even though it’s two years old by now).