Oude Beersel Bzart Lambiek - Brouwerij Oud Beersel

Fux

France

4.3/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25

A: Pours pale orange with copper glints. Thin white head quite lingering
S: Funky nose, horseblanket, balanced by a strong fruits presence (orange, apricot, pomelo, light notes of pineappel too).
T: The palate is also fruity, moderately sour. White fruits (pear, pear peel). Barnyard aromas comes after. finishes lightly bitter with a citruses aftertaste.
M: Impressive carbonation, of fine bubbles. A bit light bodied, but very easy drinking.
O: An elegant brew, fine, very well balanced.

Serving type: bottle

05-09-2013 14:09:02 | More by Fux

Alieniloquium

Florida

4.03/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

750 mL bottle poured into a Teku snifter. Bottle #1139/1300.

Appearance - Clear golden yellow. Nice white head. Big discrete bubbles in the collar. A few tiny islands on the surface.

Smell - Really lemony. Sharp acidic aroma. Hay, grassy, oaky. Not a ton of funk.

Taste - Sharp lemony sourness. Grainy. Seems like a wine flavor, but people are telling me I'm wrong. Hay and again minimal funk.

Mouthfeel - Highly carbonated. Medium sourness. Medium body.

Overall - Simple flavors. Not as complex as other gueuzes, but everything is very nice.

Serving type: bottle

05-07-2013 01:49:51 | More by Alieniloquium

stakem

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Thanks to FooFaa for sharing this brew. I had been curious about this one when I first learned about it but the pricetag and lack of reviews certainly makes for a hard blind purchase. Poured into a cervoise, the brew appears a clear pale yellow with a fizzy white bubbly head that is quick to dissolve. A swirl releases a finger of big bubbly white head back to the surface that again is quick to fade.

The aroma is funky and lemony lactic initially that gives way a bit to some minerally elements and carbonic quality. Some suggestions of yogurt and oak with an overall earthiness fills out the rest of the nose profile.

The taste is carbonic and mineraly like the nose suggested with a tart and herbal kick. There is a bit of hoppy to earthy bitterness present before blending into a lemony lactic and yogurt inclusion. This is pleasantly tart, clean and crisp finishing.

This is a light bodied brew with an effervescent and tingly amount of champagne-like prickly and fizzy carbonation but it works. It is pretty easily approachable and enjoyable with a real ease of drinkability. I just couldnt see myself drinking this even semi-regularly considering the price point. If offered, id certainly have it again though. Thanks Dan!

Serving type: bottle

01-07-2013 16:18:30 | More by stakem

MasterSki

Illinois

4.18/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Thanks to Ryan for sharing this rarity. I had been considering pulling the trigger on Etre Gourmet, but couldn't justify the expense to myself. Served in a Russian River tulip.

A - Giant white foam that has good retention, eventually dissipating to a thick cap and plenty of sticky lacing. Hazed golden body. Champagne-esque, although the bottle didn't gush.

S - Sweet Jeebus, this is one funky and dirty lambic. Lots of diaper and sulfur, with barnyard funk, apple skins and a touch of blue cheese. There's a malty yet restrained backdrop that is a bit heftier than your typical gueuze that imparts some dry crackers.

T - The taste is also quite filthy, but with some peripheral stone fruits, and lemony sourness to go with the earthy and dirty funk. Diaper, mushroom, and barnyard rule the day here, with less of the sweet malt presence found in the aroma.

M - Zesty carbonation, medium-light in body, and bone dry. Crisp and refreshing, with well-hidden alcohol. Drinks like 5%, but with the effervescence of champagne.

D - I really enjoyed this, and it's certainly the best thing I've had from Oud Beersel. I hope they make more of this, as I'd certainly pop one of these if i were in a celebratory mood. Well worth checking out if you enjoy lambic and really easy to drink.

Serving type: bottle

12-30-2012 16:21:52 | More by MasterSki

Gueuzedude

Arizona

4/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

A soft pour, from this incredibly well carbonated beer, produces a four finger thick, pale tan colored head that has the structure of Champagne, somehow it seems to be missing the protein structures usually found in beer, as if they had been here, opening the bottle would have been far more exiting. The beer is an orange tinged, pale amber color that shows a clear, bright gold hue when held up to the light. The aroma has a significant mustiness to it, lots of woody, sort of mushroom like notes, noticeable urea like notes, sharp, expressive, aromatic acidity that is anchored by the ample lactic notes. There is a backdrop of straw like grain, backed by cracker like maltiness. When it loses much of the carbonation it becomes much less aromatic, though it is still quite enjoyable to ruminate over.

The beer is tart, but not as much as I was expecting, it is quite effervescent, with lots of carbonic acid that also accentuates the tartness here. Musty, funky, musky phenolics lightly perfume each sip of this beer. The grain character is quite soft, with subtle notes of hay, and in combination with the other notes a sort of dried weed like notes. The beer is quite light bodied, not quite watery, but it doesn’t have the slickness that many a Gueuze tends to have; it is quite nice and refreshing though, and would be great on a hot Summer’s day. The tartness here has a nice lemon like character to it, with perhaps a touch of grapefruit.

I like the champagne conditioning touch on this beer, though I wonder if the lack of yeast / sediment has reduced the complexity and body of this beer somehow. Still, this is quite a tasty beer, and certainly the best Lambic I have had from Oude Beersel since the retirement of the original brewer; though it is perhaps not quite at that level, as the Kriek from 2001 I had recently was just phenomenal still.

Serving type: bottle

11-13-2012 14:03:08 | More by Gueuzedude