Humulus Rueuze
The Bruery Terreux

 

Cellared 2 years. Mostly clear honey golden body, big eggshell white head. Fairly sweet mango, yuzu, grape, lemon with bretty funk in nose. Taste is so weird but refrehsing: sour and sweet pineapple, white grape, lemon, yuzu, mango, melon, mild yeast and funk supporting. Feel is incredibly bright, sour but not acidic, funk is lower for style, it screams new world. It is so different compared to the belgian masters, but it is fun, save for summer

 

 

750 ml bottle, 2022 vintage, couldn't find the bottled on date for this one. Label says 5.9% ABV. Served in a Teku, the beer pours a slightly hazy gold color with about an inch and a half white head. Head retention and lacing are both good. I like the aroma, the brew smells like tart lemon, oak, funk, grassiness and some tropical fruit. I think the taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but there's also some apple vinegar, vanilla and bready malt flavors noticeable too. Lots of tartness in this brew! Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's slick and smooth with a good amount of carbonation. I liked this sour blonde ale, definitely worth picking up if you like tart/sour brews!

 

Bottled 10/22/15 and enjoyed on 7/20/21. Somehow this held up really well. I understand the base beer lasting this long but when it’s dry-hopped, this is a surprise. You still get that vegetal and earthy hop flavor in the finish after the funk and tartness of the yeast and the depth of the oak barrels. Delicious.

 

 

Had this at the taphouse back in February I believe. Pours a blonde ale with some obscured haze and whatnot, light haze, this isn't orange juice full on pulp territory here. White head, 1/4". Aroma was far more hoppy than I expected, but also featured a pronounced white oak kind of influence paired with all those big green honeydew melon notes from the hops.

Taste made me think of the greatest homebrew I've ever had. It was a smoky dry hopped gueuze. This beer has the hops and the gueuze, such a difficult and complex thing to put together, hops inhibit the growth of the bugs that make a gueuze a gueuze for the most part. And yet here it works quite well. Sour blonde base is a no frills excursion that displays the oak nicely and makes it seem brighter. The sourness is right around a 6 on the 10 pt scale and doesn't dominate all other aspects of the beer, they play nice together and in harmony. Mouth feel finishes dry and bretty. Alternative developments of citrus and mint even. Complex stuff that is easy to drink. Love it.