Struiselensis

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Sour Ale
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Bottle: Poured a light copper color ale with a nice pure white fizzy head with exceptional retention and great lacing. Aroma is perfectly balance between some dry hops notes and some tart yeasty notes. Taste is really well balance between some tart notes with light sour notes and a dry European hops finish. Full body with limited filtration and great carbonation. I thought this was a perfect take on a Orval type of beer and resemble what I thought Ommegang Ommegeddon should have tasted like. Re-rate (two weeks after original rating): A lot more green apple taste then what I originally remember the beer to contains. Still very good and ratings stands.

Hazy gold with a spot of white head. Aroma is tangy cider with vinous bretty undertones. Taste is very sharp, unexpectedly dry and vinous. Acetic and tart which becomes a bit cloying in the aftertaste.

Hazy dark gold with a fleeting white head. Nice barnyard aroma with lemon and leather. Medium body. Mild to medium sweet/tart citrus lemon flavors with some bready sweetness. Picked up some peppery spiciness in the mixed dreg at the bottom of this 33cl bottle. Good beer.

Cloudy golden with a disappearing head. Aroma is dominated by the Brett, grapefruit, leather and wood with some sweeter fruit notes too. Flavour is very sour, lemon juice and some wooden notes, like fresh beechwood. It’s a nice flavour, very drinkable, but not a lot of complexity though.

Synthetic Cork
Cloudy amber color, dull; medium sized head, creamy and persistent. Interesting aroma, a bit malty, sweet, flowery, with the Bretts. The flavor is an interesting crossover between a fresh Belgian Ale and a Lambic; the mouthfeel is smoother in the front and drier later, malinly when a citrusy flavor comes in (lemon), and the lemon dominates the final. Very good.

Blonde colour. Spicy, anisey nose with a nice tartness. Lots of tart apple. Really appley, with tart, slightly spicy flavour. Nice clean tartness in the finish.

11.2oz bottle. Poured cloudy gold in color with a fizzy white head that diminished quickly. Aroma of brett, slight citrus, and tart. Flavors of lemon and orange citrus, brett funkiness, and a bit more tart then I was expecting. Maybe the brett is kickin a little more in this bottle. The finish is nice, the body is nice, I just really loved this. I could drink a bottle of this every night.

This Belgian Ale pours a slightly hazy orange gold color from a 33cl bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity and sweet, orange with a hint of tartness. A medium bodied Belgian Ale. The malts are fruity and sweet, lots of orange and lemon flavors. The hops are earthy. An interesting beer, it has a lots of citrus fruit flavors yet has some serious tartness/sourness funk going on, yet all the flavors seem a little suspended. Its like the beer isn’t quite to its final stage yet, it is not incomplete or anything, but its like its about half ay down he final road. Lively carbonation. A light and refreshing beer. Mouthfeel is full, smooth and round. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly tart.