Piro Bruin

Brewed by Verhaeghe
Style: Sour Ale
Vichte, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Rusty red color, medium carbonation. Small layer of a head. Nice currant nose. Currant - actually like Rote Grütze (specialty fo Northern Germany, kinda like a red fruit jelly) taste. Medium sourness in the beginning - finished sweet honey like.

Clear ruby red beer with a creamy, fast reducing head that lingers on as a film. Sharp acidic aroma with a nice touch of vanilla and fruit. Caramel and sugary sweetness balances the sourness in the flavour. Medium body, rather soft on the palate with a refreshing dry finish. A refreshing , yet complex beer.

Dark brown colored with a red gleam and a frothy light tan head. Aroma of vinegar and balsamico with cheesy tones, typical flemish sour. Rather sweet and sugary flavor and dry as hell. Malt, vinegar and candy notes. Typical flemish sour ale characteristics though more sweet than the average beer from Verhaeghe.

(Brewed and labelled following the recipe(???) of the former Bevernagie brewery at Lichtervelde) Head gone in seconds, reducing itself to little brownish rim; deeper brown beer with reddish shine. Very vinegary-wooden nose, even a bit too much - smells like vegetable - preserving vinegar. Again vinegar (& woody) and not too refined. this is the taste idea, but much more extreme than St. Jozef at Lichtervelde would have done. Fruity-vinous flavours. Sharp mouthfeel, definitely. Aftertaste is a bit less sharp, much more rounded. It's OK. But I imagine the nose could put off scores of people.