Zoetzuur Flemish Reserve Ale

To me, this may be the best Flemish sour I’ve had. Extremely smooth and easy to drink with a hint of the sour bite. Just an excellent beer for number 17 at the party. I was very impressed.

Soury fermented fruit and sweetness across the nose w/ a slight hint of barnyard. Dr. Bill poured it and it had a beautiful reddish brown color with awesome head and lacing. The flavor was light and soury with a crsip apple tartness and sweetness, and a hint of horseblanket notes. Good body and nice effervescence. Slightly dry.

<b>In short: </b>One of the best interpretation of the classic Flemish Sour style. Second only to La Folie.
<b>How: </b>Bottle 750ml, sent to me by after4ever as a bonus. HUGE thank for that one. Consumed when almost one year of age.
<b>The look: </b>Cloudy resign brown topped by a medium off-white head
<b>In long: </b>Strong nose of oaky barrels. Body is a bit fluffy with a nice fresh cherry taste. Sensation of a freshly baked cherry muffin. The sour oak barrel couldn’t be better integrated. The finish is pleasantly dry. This is not a beer in the pure Flemish Sour tradition but rather a crossover of 2/3 of the traditional Flemish Sour (Rodenbach Grand Cru, etc.) and 1/3 the new trend of American Sour Ales. The beer is intense yet it is highly drinkable in large quantities, which is something I cannot say about most sour ales, even the best ones. That beer would be so highly rated if it had a Lost Abbey label on it. And even more highly rated if it was rare. A truly fantastic beer. I can’t tell you how much I like this beer… mainly because I have no clue how to pronounce its name.

Holy fucking shit! This beer poured a clear amber color and sported a nice sheet of solid froth atop...the aroma stung in sour barny ways with brett and funk dancing about and leather and lemon raining down on the senses...the flavors were bretty, funky, sweet, and fruity...with some lemon meringue and saddle...this was superb in every way...just straight up funky shit and i loved every sip of it.

Wonderfully complex aroma - clear brettanomyces character of fresh flowers, wet hay, and barnyard funk, red apples and bananas, vinegar, toffee. Fairly clear ruby-orange color, dense off-white head. Great balance of brett. funk, fruitiness, acidity, and bitterness in the flavor, flavorful but crsip and refreshing. Medium body with moderate carbonation. Very few beers have such a superb balance of complex flavors and aromas with such a crisp and refreshing character. This is outstanding.

Bottle. Cloudy amber and brown with a lasting head. Aroma of tart, ripe vine fruits and Brett dominate the aroma. The taste is more subtle than Alexander & Cuvee but a lot of the same flavors are there. Puckering cherry, apple and grape to go with nice barn flavors. The mouthfeel is really lively.

(750ml bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy deep amber body with a large rocky beige head. Aroma of grape bubble gum and tart cherries. Flavor is sour and has some earthiness. Excellent all around!

Bomber bottle. Poured buubly, tawny brown, with a dense, foamy tan head. Nose was sour cherries, yeast, wet blanket. Falvor was sour cherry, yeast bitterness (brettanomyces-like), musty, slightly medicinal aftertaste, and just a hint of malty sweetness under it all. Finsih was very dry. More complexity than other sour ales.