De Dolle Speciaal Brouwsel 20

Formerly brewed at De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Sour Ale
Diksmuide, Belgium

Thanks to my buddy Kev for a chance to sample this awesome brew. Just a slight tartness . Some apple tartness but smooth a gentle and easy to drink.nice Belgian lace from candi sugar no doubt and a really pleasant yeasty horse blanket soft malt nose.Nice beer hopefully someday we will meet again..

37.5 cL bottle in a fantastic vertical of Still Nacht beers at Kulminator together with Ask, Jes, Jens and Rasmus - cheers guys! We actually started out with the special. Pours beautiful deep amber and with a nice offwhite head. Aroma is fruity and cherry, extremely smooth and inviting with a mild whiff of caramel malt beneath. Smooth phenolic and cherry flavoured, yet so perfectly balanced and unbeliving "alive" after so many years. Complex wineous smooth finish - just fantastic!

Bottle shared by Nelson at the Cleveland tasting. Pour is coppery rust with not much head. Aroma is yeasty and earthy...smells like a cellar. Flavor is subtle and musty.Dont get any sourness at all, but maybe it is me. I think this bottle was past its prime.

1980 version, tasted @ Kulminator, september 9th 2006. Aroma and flavor have porto, cherry juice and a very soft malt character. Has lost all its carbon, but not its bite. Caramel, lemon and cherry in the flavor. The alcohol remains totally unnoticed. Absolutely great beer.

Vintage 1980 @ Kulminator, part of a vertical :-) Dark reddish brown with nice lasting head. Strong malty vinous aromawith notes of sour berries, wood and vinegar. Flavour is sweet and sour, with long sour finish. This was a treat :-)

Bottle from 1980 @ Kulminator. Read brown with huge beige creamy head. Sour aroma with notes of wood, sour berries, roasted malt and vinegar. Sour flavor with berries, wood, barnyard and malt. Ends sour. Fantastic carbonated for such an old beer. Lovely!

Unique and complex. Champagne like appearance on this dark yellowish gold de dolle. Very mild biting sour punch with a hay, mold and oak backbone. Past it’s prime as of August 2008.

Tasted at Cleveland tasting on 8-23-08. Thanks!! Bottle pours a dark amber color with a white head. There are a lot of tiny floaters in this one. Aroma is very earthy, and woody with some musty smells, and some slight citrus. Has a very big body and was very well carbonated. Taste was very surprising. I didn’t think I would taste something that pushed the envelope on this style. It was hard to describe. It was sweet like caramel, but had a musty flavor in there. It was woody, but also had a nice tart finish. Overall this was a surprising beer that I really enjoyed tasting.