Zoetzuur Flemish Reserve Ale

Pours hazy reddish brown with gold highlights, and a creamy long lasting beige head. Nice! Aroma is very bretty, and kinda reminds me of Avery 15. Cherries, mushrooms, parmesan cheese, sweaty socks, a bit of oak, mustard and vinegar. Certainly an eventful nose. Taste is quite dry with flavors of wood, toast, sour cherries, mustard, vinegar, slight rotten fruit, and a much bigger oak influence adding a certain "dusty" character. Finishes dry, dusty and with a mustard and bitter fruit aftertaste. Medium bodied, but a little fuller than most with creamier carbonation. Quite good, but maybe TOO drying for me, despite the slightly beefier malt presence.

bottle. Reddish brown in color with a medium off white head and good carbonation. Aroma of sour cherry, light vinegar, moderate funk, light cheese, and some earth and touches of molasses. Taste is moderately sour and funky, some acetic and lactic acid, tart cherry, earthy and lightly phenolicy. Body is a bit fuller than alot of sours and has some caramel/molasses sweetness poking through. Finishes tart with some lingering cherry, mild acetic acid, and earth. Looks like I enjoyed this one more than most.

Very nice example of a Flemish sour ale, reminiscent of the retired Rodenbach Alexander, but with slightly fuller mouthfeel. You either like it or you hate it.

bottle thanks to swalden28. pours brownish with an off white head. aroma of sour cherries and flavor of tart cherries. medium body with light to medium carbonation.

Bottle from Kegs & Barrels in McKinney, TX. Pours a hazy brown with orange hues, off-white head. Aroma of wild cherries, malt, wild yeast. Flavor is much the same. Mouthfeel is medium body with medium carbonation. Over all it was pretty good!

Bottle from BMan1113VR. Pours a dark reddish color with a big creamy head. Nose is pineapple, straw berries, barnyard funk. Taste is Vinegar, pepper, old rotting fruit and a bit of tartness. Weird semi bitter finish. Not the best.

Tallahassee, Fl. - Liquor Loft - 750 ml caged corked bottle. Pours a murky dark orangish brown with a tight white head that clings to the edges of the glass. Vinegar-like aroma with some sour cherry accents. Flavor is of course, very sour with some sour cherries, sweet tarts and a hint of vinegar. Good stinging mouthfeel - the way a good sour should be. Pretty solid.

Bottle. Pours with a lightly off-white, creamy head and a hazy brown body. Good lacing. Aroma of red wine at a distancee, and closer up some barnyard, fruit, strawberries, cherries and more random fruits I can not put my finger on. Taste is fruity with barnyard and is much more funk than sour. I was hopping for a bit of mouthpuckering. Dry mouthfeel, lively carbonation.