t Smisje Sleedoorn Extra

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Fruit Beer
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

Bottle 33cl. @ chris_o’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008.
Light unclear light to medium amber orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (020808)

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is alcohol, raisins, sweet malts and some mild yeastyness. Flavour is very sweet alcohol, some grass and overall quite sweet.

Golden color; fizzy head that reduces too quickly. It has a lightly sour and woody aroma. It has a common flavor, but also a bit spicy, woody and sour; there are sweet nuts too. Refreshing.

Clear amber with tiny off white head. Sweet fruity aroma with floral and yeasty notes. Sweet and sourish flavor with fruity and yeasty notes. Ends mild sour.

A Mes rate: Bottle at Chris O’s Pre GBBF Tasting
Amber gold with a thin off white head. Very fruity aroma with some good sherberty hop and slight spice. The flavour is totally dominated by metal. Not sure if we had a bad bottle but I just can’t do this beer justice with that much metal in it.

Bottle at cris_o’s iv run out of banter tasting. Alround rating: Theres some tart character in whats a fairly basic belgian ale, yeasty and grassy. Not really hot at all.

Good, effervescent head, reducing itself to 2cm and then remaining stable, slightly pinkish coloured; over hazy-ish amber beer. Medicinal - fruity nose, characteristic for the Regenboog. Fruitiness has - even in the nose - a tart component: no doubt the sloeberries manifesting themselves. Further a strange, but not unpleasant "old" aroma - like parchment or old books. The medicinal taste, again, but shortlived and restrained. Then it is extremely dry, its fruity dimension notwithstanding. Being sloeberries, it could have been rosehips or similar: a mixture of dry, wild fruit and dry oriental (not hot) spices. Taste grows on me. Dry, dry, near tart palate. Refreshing all the same - remarkable! I cannot say whether I like this better or less than the ordinary Sleedoorn. It is... remarkable. Beer is ready at the brewery, but as yet sampled unlabeled; name might still change.

Bottle @ chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008. Pours a slighlty hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty and slighlty tart flavor. Has a sweetish very bitter spicy fruity finish.