Tuverbol
Café-Brouwerij Loterbol

Copenhagen 28/5 2023. 37,5 cl bottle with a cork stopper from DrikBeer web-shop. Tall narrow rectangular label with Tyverbol in red.

Pours unclear - almost opaque - golden amber with a mid-sized white head. Stable. Settles a 0,5 cm thick layer of foam covering the surface of the beer. Crawling up the sides of the glass. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is is intense with a sweet fruity odor soon overpowered by a strong astringent sous scent, Currants and raspberries. Citrus, sour gooseberries and vinegar. Hints of sour cheese.

Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling and bit fizzy texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a strong sourness. Aftertaste is sour with a notable sweet undertone. Lingers for a bit. Finish is rather dry.

Nice sour brew with a redeeming sweet fruitiness.

 

12.7 fl. oz. bottle
Served in a teku glass

This beer pours a brilliant amber color and is topped with a couple inches of lively, tan foam that leaves spotty lacing.

Sour and funky aroma with some stonefruit notes. Hints of dank basement.

Nice sourness and funk. The sourness builds as I consume. I get some musty cellar flavors.

Fuller bodied with an unexpected pillowy mouthfeel

Nice sour. It has the elements of what I love about sour beer, albeit slightly muted for my palate. I like more of an in-your-face sour. This one saunters up and gently kisses my mouth with sourness. Soft and subtle.

Cellared 4 years. I was told it would age really nicely when I purchased it, pulled one of my 2 bottles from the cellar to see where we are at. Still has high carb even with all of that age, but the sourness is faint, more funky in an older and nuanced way, very interesting feel indeed! Nice earth, old leather, vague prune, lemon, pressed flowers, and horse blanket funk in a balanced way. Smell is simpler: old world yeast with earthy esters, lemon and mild mannered funk. Clear dirty gold body with a full finger of off-white foam. Would age longer honestly

3/15/25 - (Bottle- Home) (Chicago, IL) Bottle Notes: Purchased at Beer on the Wall for $17.66 on December 13, 2024. I refrigerated this bottle upon returning home before opening this morning. 12.7 oz, bottled in 2021-2022, best before the end of 2027. 9.6% ABV. Ingredients: Wheatmalt, wheat, barley malt, water, hops, sugar, yeast. Product of Belgium. Imported by Lime Ventures Inc., Concord, California.

Brouwerij Loterbol and Brouwerij Fonteinen collaboration. Tuverbol is a blend of Loterbol Blond and 3 Fonteinen lambik. Spontaneous refermentation in the bottle. Non-filtered, non-pasteurised.

Appearance: Poured about 2/3 of the bottle into a tall tulip, yielding a generous bubbly foamy bright head which lasted for several minutes leaving significant lacing and a nice creamy thick cover over the crystal clear apple juice base with sustained generous carbonation. Looks great. 4.5

Aroma: Nice funky lead, wet wool horse blanket, apple, oak, white grape, all blend together well. Very enticing. 4.25

Taste: Consistent with aroma, perhaps even stronger. Funky fruits, apple, lemon, citrus, white grape. Oak, grassy, 4.5

Mouthfeel: Tart, mildly acidic. Drinks below the 9.6% ABV. Light crisp body, gentle sustained carbonation. Leans a bit sweet, but enough tartness to contain excess. Lemon citrus grape finish. 4.25

Overall: Solid blended lambic offering by these two breweries. Drinks light and easy, but the ABV will catch up with you in the second half. Enjoyed the full strong flavors, and nice mellow experience. Just what I needed. 4.5

 

Poured from 375mL green bottle into my BeerAdvocate teku. This is the 2021 vintage.

Appearance: medium orange hue with a dash of haze and a finger of frothy eggshell foam. Looks nice.

Smell: lightly sweet malt with a light sourness. There’s a bit of a candy element here, which I like but overall the volume is a bit low to me.

Taste: quite a nice maltiness with a bright but not overpowering sourness kicks things off, preparing me for more of that candyness from the aroma. However, the finish is too sweet, almost cloyingly so. A big of earthy bitterness rounds things out; it’s good, but it needs to dial back the treacle.

Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a very big carbonation and a nice, if ephemeral, creaminess.

Overall: I am enjoying this lambic, and though it’s not perfect, it is definitely bright and drinkable and there’s practically no hint that it’s 9.7%.

12.7 ounce caged and corked bottle, 2021 vintage, best before end 2026 on label. Served in a Teku, the beer pours a somewhat hazy dark gold color with about an inch or so off-white head that stayed around a while. Good amount of lacing, too. Aroma is nice, the brew smells like funk, oak, wheat/grainy malt and some lemon zest. Taste is similar to the aroma, but with the addition of some white grape, pear, peppery spice and earthy flavors. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's smooth and a bit creamy with a good amount of zippy soft carbonation. I thought this was pretty good, it's a tasty funky and earthy brew. Definitely worth picking up if you're able to!

 

 

2023-07-28
375ml bottle served in a little Cantillon glass. 2021 batch. Bought it at Bottleworks.

Pours a slightly hazy golden orange with a medium sized head and astonishing retention -- thick, and creamy mostly even cap. Very pretty. Smell is tart, a little lemon, some gueuzy funk, clear oak.

Taste is interesting, lots of lambicky-ness, and a strong saison-y funk / spice. Lemon note moves a little toward orange, tartness is offset by something sweetness, almost reminds me of ripe nectarines, oak is there in the background.

Mouthfeel is rich, creamy, velvet. Overall, this is a very good beer.

 

Bottled in dark green glass with cage and cork and purchased from Beermoth in Manchester City centre
Pours a slightly hazy golden body with most excellent white head
Aroma is super citrusy sour
Flavour is dry, then super sour concentrated lemon

A 2021 bottle.

A: Opens with a big POP. A bubbly, foamy white head pours out. It becomes manageable after a minute. A hazy orange/yellow color. The foam gently recedes to a ring that sticks throughout. Spotty patches of lace.
S: Big musty basement like Funk, oak and vanilla all mingle and dance together. More of a toasted malt character with dried citrus fruit aromas.
T: That musty basement funk, oak and vanilla are all up front. More toasted malty flavors, some sweetness, with just a hint of dried citrus/fruity acidity. For a Lambic, I was expecting more of the tart/acidic character to come through. There is more of a sweet finish. Though still very nice.
M/O: A medium to full body. At first, spritzy and crisp carbonation. Though that smooths out, would like a drier finish, but small grips. The alcohol is noticeable, and very high for a Lambic. Though still something I'm enjoying sipping on.

I'm not sure I have had a Lambic like this before. The high ABV makes this a sipper, but a really enjoyable one. The acidic/tart/sourness isn't nearly as prominent as others in the style. Instead, the funk, malts and the oak have more of a presents. All that said, its still very intriguing, and...whats that word again...oh yeah, enjoyable. Definitely recommended for something a bit different with the style.

2021 vintage.

 

 

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a tulip glass

Look: hazy golden brown with a thick white head

Smell: Tart but pleasantly so. Green apple, white wine, lemon, and cracker. Very nice.

Taste: Mild smartie like tart up from with a nice salty kick. Body is green apple, oak, white wine, and golden bread.

Feel: Bright and clean. Highly active carbonation. No alcohol. Mild acidity. Mild bitterness.

Overall: A brilliant blended sour. One I will keep an eye out for in the future.

saw this on an obscure bottle list and had to try it with the homies, we love drie fonteinen and just had to, not knowing what this was, a blend of their lambic and this strong tripel type belgian golden, 2018 vintage for us, small bottle, cork and cage. the beer is a clear at first, straw colored to light pale orange, but quickly gets more sedimented as we pour toward the bottom, a decent head on it, but short lived, and it immediately smells dusty and old, and like there is way more belgian ale than lambic in the blend, not what i expected at all, perhaps the storage of this one and the green glass got the better of it, but it smells oxidized to me, tired, but still unique and interesting and ferment forward to we march on. the flavor is odd, more malty it seems up front than it color really indicates, almost toasted to me, and with the sort of candy sugar added vibe i get in many tripel types, not so much sweet as the flavors of that sugar specifically, whether its in here or not. i honestly dont get much lambic either, a little tang to it sure, but the funk and wildness of the drie lambic is largely absent unfortunately. thankfully the yeast in the belgian ale is cool, its unique, spicy, and well used, white pepper and coriander essence to it for me, a hint of dry white wine maybe, dried flowers and even culinary herbs. some oak in the mix too, way in the back, more as it warms, but the oxidation puts cardboard and skunk all through it too, past its prime weirdly, unexpectedly. more lambic would improve this, because more lambic improves most things, but to me this was a little bit of a miss, its boozy, somewhat sweet, kind of stale, and not real cohesive, certainly below expectations given the collaborator, but its still of merit, unique as a blend of these styles and really my first exposure to loterbol, would love to score more of their stuff. not the standout i was hoping for, but a rare and fun bottle shared with the boys is always a treat!