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Brasserie Artisanale Millevertus De Toernich

Deep amber in color. A scarce foam, quckly falling to null.
The smell is surely peculiar: vinous, with a tartness, almost like unripe grape.
The taste is again on the way of the vinousity / tartness. It is strange, but I can't say that I like it.
Unripe plums, also.
Inspired toPortugal, but in what sense?

Sadly the last of the sampler 6-pack I bought at the brewery. But one of their best...

Pours a cloudy orange-amber with an off-white head. Some lace is left as the beer disappears slowly...

Aroma is Brett yeast all the way, like the inside of just-worn gym shoes. And we love it, don't we? Sour fruits and earthy hops are detected.

Vegetal elements absolutely dominate the flavor, with a cider-like sweetness in the finish. Like they ground up beets, celery, spinach and tobacco and added that secret-sauce to the wort. Wild wild wild stuff. Also cider-like in the mouthfeel, being thick and only moderately carbonated.

I have never tasted anything remotely like this, Belgian or otherwise. Probably the best example of Millervertus' untamed style. It's for those who like it chewy, stinky and earthy, and above all, pure. You get a sense that this is about as down-to-earth as beer gets in the 21st century. May this brewery continue to approach its beers with such great sense of adventure. [note: bottle clearly reads 8% alcohol, and I believe it.]

fffirst off, this beer is labeled as ff5% alcohol, not ff5.5%

single bottle, 11.2, with another bizarre cartoony belgian label. this one shows a bird (crow?) playing a mandolin with and singing with little red hearts on his knees. and as most characters on belgian beer bottles are, this fowl is standing in front of some medieval castlelike structure. weird. or should i say, fffreakin weird.

pours a real peachy amber.. rather still with a small but lasting head of big bubbles and hazy surface clouds. huge yeasty aroma.. like raw beer. reminds me a bit of chouffe in that way, but this has something darker.. something more bitter and acidic in the nose. bready.

taste throws the whole profile out of whack.. it starts out with a big fresh brett-like earthy dirt-laden sour.. what a wild ale would be at 5%. with noticeable metallic flavor, followed by a very dry, vinous quality. chardonnay leaps out from behind this small bottle. finishes with a crisp fruit bite.. pear, maybe some red apple. clean and the dryness continues to lip-smacking nirvana. what an excellently unique small beer.

like the thiriez beers from france, this manages to pull out boatloads of delicious and refreshing flavor.. it also manages to retain its 'sipability' for maximum enjoyment, and hovers low on the alcohol scale. this would be the perfect after-dinner beer if you had to go into work at 8pm.

highly recommended.

Best before dec 2008. Very thick and lasting head and amberbrown beercolor. Nose is very good and saisonlike. Carramellic malts bathing in a sour horssweaty spicejuice. Defenatly used aged hops and woww what a yeastarome, this brewery is really one of the best in produceing very drinkable but creative wildyeast inspired brews. Hopdosage also high for great bittersour aftertaste where a litle roast is tastable. Good mouthfeel also and sourness not disturbing at all but rounding of. Shurly gonna buy more of these next time i goto Belgium. Great adchiefment and chapeau mr. brewer!