t Smisje Sleedoornbier

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Fruit Beer
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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translucent tan. Nose has heavy brett rubber band, cherry, light earth. Heavy bandaid and rubber cement, light lemon and Brett. Finish is Brett citrus, bit of out of place smoke. Short smoke, bit imbalanced.

Strange vegetal and squash-y nose. Dirty dishwasher taste, some pinesol and a touch of rotten fruits.

Draft at Ginger Man NYC with Linh. Pours a hazy orange body. Aroma is very light fruit? Mouthfeel is incredibly thin and smooth with no carbonation (can’t remember if this was cask or not). DAMN YOU SLOEBERRIES!

22nd December 2007
Cloudy orange beer, sherbet nose. Very sharp note with unusual orange and tomoto tones. Good but a little bit too off the wall!

bottle, reddish-amber coloured with small and unstable white head. Smell: like cigarettes, pipes and some blueberrys. taste: very smoked, blueberry, monotone, very strange and heavy beer! Beer for real man who want to try some fruitbeers.

Draft at Redlight Redlight. Poured into a flute glass, the lightly hazy body glows a dusky orange-gold color. A small but lasting head of smooth, snow white foam coats the entire glass with thick, solid sheets of lacing. The aroma is downright strange. I’m talking off-the-charts strange. First to hit are notes of dirt and minerals, combining to mimic the scent of well-circulated coins. Copper, nickel, and worn tin are then joined by unidentified, slightly minty berries, with a touch strawberry sweetness, and then some aquavit burn. Did I mention that this stuff smelled strange? Well, the flavor is just as weird, showing a smoky ash contingent, sweet-tart berries, sugary alcohol, and caustic metals. Ugh! The palate sports the consistency of tonic water, spritzy and fizzy, with a light body and some residual sugars. I can’t really find a redeeming quality. This stuff is practically a crime against beer. Pretty horrid.

Another beer from De Regenboog, another brought back from my recent trip to Belgium. I’m not sure if it’s a winter seasonal but the festive sled with the cartoon dog leads me to believe so. It’s a murky coppery-brown with no head to speak of. A tart berry aroma wafts from the glass, (this ale is supposedly brewed with some sort of berry) some brett funk smells too. Quite tart. Who am I kidding? It’s pretty sour, lots of acetic acid and barnyard funk. The berry/cherry sourness flits in and out too. Surprisingly, the finish is relatively clean, just a hint of vinegary sourness and then it’s gone. The mouth is light but lots of flavor. It’s unique. Not sure I love it but it is different.

On Tap @ RedLight. Hazy golden pour with a white head. Nose is sour, kinda funky, some smoke, and citrus as well. Flavor is the same as the nose and got some metallic flavor out of it as well. Different for sure.

Bottle. Amber colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, sour, cellar, berries. Flavour is sweet, sour, cellar, berries. Strange nice beer.

33 cl bottle. Pours red brown with a white head. Aroma and taste are bad,I didn’t like them. Too much carbonation too...Not a beer that I’m going to drink again.