Wild Jo
Brouwerij De Koninck NV

Copenhagen 7/2 2021. 33 cl bottle from Belgisk Bryg, Emdrup Mosevej, Kbh. NV. Red label with a blue pigeon and a skyline in white with a sunrise.

Pours almost clear yellow with a big white head. Fairly stable. Settles as thin almost transparent layer of foam covering the surface of the beer. Substantial lacing.

Aroma is medium intense with a light sweet malty odor mingling with sourish notes and a yeasty whiff. Peach and orange. Light citrus. Humid basement and barnyard.

Quite strong carbonation. Thin, watery, tingling and lively texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a light sweetness followed by a medium strong bitterness. Aftertaste is sourish bitter and lingers for a bit. Finish is dry.

Nice yeasty Golden Ale with a wild touch.

 

Bottled and presumably bottle conditioned
Pours a very slightly hazy golden body with good white head
Aroma is Christmas spice
Flavour is star anise and and malted milk

 

 

Cerveza con una pequeña cabeza espumosa de retención media. Cuerpo y carbonatación media. Aroma cítrico y a levadura. En boca es ligeramente cítrica lo que la hace agradable.

33cl bottle into glass

blond golden in color, thick white head. aroma is mild earthy hops and mild tartness. taste is a touch bitter and mild acidity which the pale malt flavors. thin bodied.

 

 

 

 

Tried the Wild Jo at De Koninck's Cafe in Antwerp.
The beer was pretty good in fact if it weren't an Orval clone I would have rated it higher.
It's pretty spot on replication of an Orval,maybe not quite the bitterness and not quite as dry but a clone none the less.
In fact it was so close I was actually a little put off that someone would put an effort into making the same beer and selling it as their own beer.
It should say Orval on the bottle.

 

Okay beer.

 

 

Pours a pale yellow, a little on the cloudy side with a nice pillow of white head. Lively carbonation sustain it throughout. Not much of a nose but a definite brett presence. The flavour is quite mild however this is where the brett really shines, the downside being that it borderline dominates the taste. A sweeter lemon presence in the dry finish makes for a very refreshing beer.

This one is a bit of an enigma. I don't generally enjoy blond beers, that being said the twist provided by Wild Jo makes for an enjoyable beer.

Light straw colour with a little haze and a full head of bubbly foam. Brett is prominent in the smell: horse blanket with some grapefruit. Same flavours in the taste, with some more citric accents. The taste is very dry, which makes this beer feel quite refreshing. Problem is however: this beer seems to be all about the wild yeast. Other flavours are lacking, which makes this quite a one-dimensional beer. I like De Koninck and I like brett, so I'll cellar one of these to see if they mature well. First impression is not great though.