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Oerbier Special Reserva 2008 (Bottled 2009)
Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
- From:
- Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
- Belgium
- Style:
- Flanders Oud Bruin
- ABV:
- 13%
- Score:
- 95
- Avg:
- 4.31 | pDev: 8.12%
- Reviews:
- 57
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 05, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 27, 2009
- Wants:
- 34
- Gots:
- 20
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Reagan1984:
Reviewed by Reagan1984 from Massachusetts
3.53/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.53/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Fizzy and noisy tan head forms, bubble actively and vanishes. Ruby in color with a very deep color.
No lacing at all.
Aroma was pretty aggressive. Cherry, tart, medicinal, tart, metallic, musty.
Pretty complex flavor. Apple cider, cherry, big alcohol flavor, but not quite "hot" earthy almost dirty, slightly tart. In the background are some layered malt flavor.
Big mouth feel due to the alcohol flavor. Medium bodied. Doesn't hide the 13% too well.
Slow sipper. Interesting, but not epic.
Feb 11, 2010No lacing at all.
Aroma was pretty aggressive. Cherry, tart, medicinal, tart, metallic, musty.
Pretty complex flavor. Apple cider, cherry, big alcohol flavor, but not quite "hot" earthy almost dirty, slightly tart. In the background are some layered malt flavor.
Big mouth feel due to the alcohol flavor. Medium bodied. Doesn't hide the 13% too well.
Slow sipper. Interesting, but not epic.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.47/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.75
4.47/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.75
Leather brown with garnet highlights + a fast-fading ribbon of off-white froth; wine, wet wood, red currants, winter spice on the nose; walnuts, ginger cake, red plum, waxy leather, a whack of tannins, red wine vinegar, and a pepper finish; dry, warming, lt-med.
4 4.5 4.5 4 4.75
Gives off balsamic aromas but more so wine and wood individually.
Similarly the taste ranges from sharp, fruity acid to deep dark candy sugar - there are sips that are bracingly tart + sips that aren’t sour at all.
It all has a library mustiness on the end - that’s 12 years of age, no doubt.
Dunno if to call this a bruin or BDSA but it’s shifty + mature + lovely.
A pleasure.
Aug 05, 20214 4.5 4.5 4 4.75
Gives off balsamic aromas but more so wine and wood individually.
Similarly the taste ranges from sharp, fruity acid to deep dark candy sugar - there are sips that are bracingly tart + sips that aren’t sour at all.
It all has a library mustiness on the end - that’s 12 years of age, no doubt.
Dunno if to call this a bruin or BDSA but it’s shifty + mature + lovely.
A pleasure.
Oerbier Special Reserva 2008 (Bottled 2009) from Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
92 ratings
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