Speciaalbierbrouwerij Oijen Eikelbier

Brewed by Speciaalbierbrouwerij Oijen
Style: Fruit Beer
Oijen, Netherlands

Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is really fruity, vanillaish and slightly nutty. A bit sweet teaish notes too. Flavour is spices, nuts, some fruits and dry like tea. Really pleasantly balanced brew.

Bottle, 6%. The aroma comes off a little teaish and quite spicy. Cloudy yellow colour, small white head. The flavour is also teaish, with coriander and bonbon. Ends with a little yeast note. A little strange, but nice enough. Acorn beer?

Bottle from St Albans BF, drunk at home. Hazy pale gold with no real head. A little woody/nutty on aroma, some blond ale notes. Bit of spice from the nuts. It is cetainly a nuttly blond ale. Very different, but good. As Rastacouere says, simple and effective.

Bottle. Pale cloudy yellow. Thin white cover. Perfumey, well-balanced, obviously nutty ale, frank in its zesty, fresh, fruity aromatic displays and globally pleasant. Gentle hazelnuts meet the malty sweetness in mouth with elegance. There’s just not much complexity at all. Beautiful, simple and effective, original, light-bodied ale with cleansing carbonation.

from crackedkettle.com - cloudy and bright dark orange colour with a creamy white head; subtle aroma of blackcurrant and yeast; very creamy mouthfeel; very sweet with a late acidity which partially balances it; yeasty and very fruity finish - nicely made

I was suprised and delighted by this beer. Pours a clear blond, cloudy yeast at the bottom of the bottle hard to keep out of the beer. Carbonation looked moderate, and here was lesson one: The beer had an extraordinary creamy texture I hadn’t come across before. Is it the yeast? Makes other beers feel like they have 7-Up bubbles. This was lovely, soft, and complemented the flavour. Lesson two: What a fruit beer should really be like. Checking the website, this is a beer with blackcurrants. But the beer is blond? In actuality, the flavours of beer and fruit are all there, but blend so subtly that the whole is a real symphony. Not the alcohol syrup mixes that make up most ’fruit beer’. Within the bounds of what is possible with a 6% blond beer, this modest beer rewrites the rules. *The acorn theme seems to be there to satisfy the brewers sense of humour*

Bottle at home. Hazy orange colour. Creamy texture. Taste of citrus. Not much of an acorn taste. Tart and a bitter. Then, I think, it goes wrong finishing up quite badly in its herbal finish.

Bottle 0,3ltr: Beer with a acorn on its label, but in the beer they use blackcurrant with its get its citric taste.