Zoetzuur Flemish Reserve Ale

Brewed by De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Sour Ale
Lochristi, Belgium

Bottle from River’s Bend. Poured hazy copper color with a moderate fizzy off-white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate sour citrus and sweet malt aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium sour citrus flavor with a sweet smooth finish of moderate duration. This is a good beer with spicy food.

Pours amber with a fizzy and patchy off-white head, spotty lacing. Aroma is sour fruit (cherry, berry), caramel malt (meal, biscuit) and yeast (dough). Medium sweetness, fruity cherry mild bitter and acidic flavor, malt caramel notes, candied. Medium bodied and fizzy, foamy palate. I was unimpressed with this as a Flemish Sour Ale, closer to a syruped Fruit Lambic; it lacked the tartness I am used to in Flemish Sours.

750. Beer is hazy, medium caramel brown colored. Head is small, white, frothy, mostly and rapidly diminishing.<P> The aroma is malty with a light note of toasted grain, caramel; Hoppy with a light note of thyme; Yeasty with a trace of basement, moderate and pleasing horsey/farmy brettness; Moderate miscellaneous notes of sour cherry, pear, light balsamic vinegar.<P> The flavor is moderately sweet, lightly bitter, light-to-moderately acidic with an average-length, lightly sweet, lightly acidic finish.<P> The body is medium, the texutre is velvety and the carbonation is lively.

Slightly cloudy light brown, small head. Moderate sour cherry aroma, some yeast. Taste is sweet cherries, not very sour at all. Slightly yeasty, mild bitterness. Alcohol is well hidden.

Corked bottle, BevMo La Mesa. Pours a deep amber/maroon color with plenty of carbonation and an ever growing head. Tart champagne notes. Some spice and fruitiness as well. Not extremely soour. A fair amount of tart fruity flavors. Some dark fruit lying just underneath the surface. A little bit of yeastiness as well. Finish is somewhat sour with a little bitterness as well.

Dull hazy red with ample loose tan head. Tart caramel apple aroma with some underlying funkiness. Light and spritzy and rather dry. Not too sour but lacking balancing flavors. A bit oxidized. Not bad but one dimensional. Has that saccharine finish. I orginally rated this a 3.3 but it impoved while warming.

smells and tastes like spicy and sour peppers. hint of alcohol in the after taste. nice amber body

This beer is amber/brown with minimal head. The aroma is alcohol and malt. Fairly sour with a lot of alcohol in the taste.