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Struise Alvinne Keralensis 3.65 68

Struise Alvinne Keralensis

Percentile
94
overall
Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Sour Ale

Oostvleteren, Belgium

bottled
common

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683.73/5.03.65/5.0Special6%64.3Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
First blended by Glenn & Urbain at the Bles Festival in Zottegem Belgium, last October 2008, for the beer geek public, and around closing time. Many positive feedbacks around the blend, kept following both breweries. As a tribute, and honour to the late Pre-Zbf 2009 festival, we decided together with Alvinne, to officialize this blend to a one time labelled bottling this year. Only a thousand 33cl bottles were filled, to be distributed and sold on this fest, and in our respective shops.
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 bhensonb (4336), Woodland, California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Jul 18, 2009  
Bottle at Kulminator. Pours a dark cherry with a slight frothy pink head. Aroma is rather kriek. Medium body with decent carbonation. Flavor is slightest funk with a firm sour/kriekness. Finishes nicely sour cherry. If it’s not a kriek (says the label) I am unsure what it is. It’s all kriek to me.


 Oakes (8101), gone rambling, Cambodia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/57/103/514/20
Jul 17, 2009  
Bottle, thanks Patrik! Muddy reddish-purple colour. Woody, funky nose with sweet cherry. The tartness and wood lends this one a certain freshness. Dry beer, even a bit thin. Moderately sharp lactic notes and a fresh cherry finish. It’s no oude kriek, but it’s a nice sour cherry.


 Beershine (2710), Where Climate Suits My Clothes, Vietnam
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Jul 14, 2009  
Bottle, thanks to oh6gdx (Patrik) for sharing. Pours a gorgeous opaque jewel tone bright ruby red. Excellent sour cherry lambicesque aroma oozing character, funky yet clean. The cherries are so intense in this rich, lovely aroma. I also smell some cedar/aromatic wood after that. The palate is smooth, very soft and the high carbonation does not seem fizzy at all. The flavors are more lactic than the aroma lets on. The cherry character here is fabulous, and in total harmony with the lactic acid and other sourness. Nice sweet malts too. This I can drink a lot of!


 oh6gdx (8886), Vasa, Finland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jul 6, 2009  
Bottled (thanks fonefan!). Amber colour, small pinkish head. Aroma is sour and tart cherries along with some rather malty and sugary notes. Flavour is tart and dry cherries, some wood and mild breadyness. Also spices and yeast.


 MesandSim (5912), London, Greater London, England
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 5, 2009  
A Mes rate: bottle from the Alvinne shop.
Awesome candy apple red colour with a thin pinkish head. Stunning fresh cherry aroma, green but excellent. Plenty of wood and bretty character too. A little on the tinny side in the mouth giving it a sucking a freshly cut finger type flavour. Impressively tart and lively, plenty of carbonation. We’re sat here on a glorious summer evening with the doors open out onto our terrace and this is fitting the moment just right. So so much cherry in this. The Kerasus comes through clear as day yet the awesome Struise sour madness underneath still has room to sing. Superb tarty lemon cherry finish with really good length. I know I like it but I feel I love the unblended originals a little more.


 Madsnp (627), Odense C, Denmark
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 22, 2009  
Bottle. Ruby red with a thin bubbly pink head. The aroma is watery and weak with notes of almonds, cherries and some cellar. Flavour is dry with notes of rubber, wood and fruity cherries.


 garthicus (1305), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 21, 2009  
Shared by HogTownHarry with Blankboy and I. Appearance: Cherry red with a quickly diminishing pink head. Aroma: Blankboy: "Yes, yes, yes" and I agree! Cherry, sour, spice, lovely tartness, mouth watering. Flavour: Super spicy, cherry, tart as hell with a lovely pepper finish. Super!


 bu11zeye (5535), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jun 19, 2009  
(33cl bottle, BB March 2014) Pours a murky red body with a small pink head. Aroma of cherries, barnyard, light wood, and earthiness. Flavor of cherries, brett, and florals with a dry, subtle wood finish.



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