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Picobrouwerij Alvinne

 

More malty and sweet than expected.

 

 

 

 

Pours a hazy, deep amber coloration with a medium, foamy head. Smells of sweet, bready malts and floral hops, with a light tartness and estery spice coming through as well. Taste follows the nose, being dominated by sweet, biscuity malt and flowery/herbal hops, but with a bit more tartness and estery yeast notes of green apple and peppery spice, as well as hints of white grape, peach and hay. Finishes sweet and sour, with some green apple notes lingering in tha aftertaste. Full mouthfeel with a rich body and medium carbonation.

This is a very rich Belgian Sour ale that is a bit on the sweet and malty side, but still balanced nicely by some tart and estery notes. Great overall balance for such a rich, high-ABV Sour Ale, with a very nice body and mouthfeel.

 

 

 

 

 

Once again, the Morpheus yeast does wonders. The beer is balance at all time, nice complexity with hints of sourness. This beer is fruity, slightly sweet and floral. The mouthfeel is very nice, velvety. Went well with mustard sauce chicken

 

Another bottle from the depths of The Bottle Backlog here at Chez Woody is making its presence known!

From the bottle: "Alvinne Sour Collection"; "Blond sour ale - mixed fermentation - with dried hop flowers - aged in stainless steel - contains: barley malt"; "Morpheus Yeast inside".

I Pop!ped the cap & having read that last, I preferred to keep it in the bottle, so I performed a VERY gentle pour. Additionally, the cap Pop!ped off a little too easily, causing me to wonder if anything were amiss. I got some light foaming through the neck, but once decanting began, it settled right down. In the glass, I got a solid finger of puffy, foamy, tawny head that spent itself fairly quickly. Color was Deep Amber/Light Copper to Copper (SRM = > 13, < 17) with NE-quality clarity. Nose was pretty funky with a LOT of outdoors barnyard action going on in there! Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much beyond it, either. Man, this one was WAY tart, dry & puckering! It was like lemon juice, initially, but then I began to get other, sweeter fruits, like peaches and apricots. The big thing was that nose. It really took a leap of faith to bring the glass up to my face and take a drink. As I said with Omega, if you can get past the smell, you've got it licked! This one was quite tart and puckering, but not as sour. It finished very dry, almost vinous, like a white wine. Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Where is the ABV?!? It is listed as 10% & yet there was nary a sign of it ... until I stood up & got bum rushed from the dark alley! Feck. It came on suddenly, like a runaway locomotive out of a tunnel without its light on to le me know that it was coming. Whee!

 

 

 

 

Tap at Muted Horn, Berlin. Slightly hazy golden color, small white head with decent retention for the abv. Smell si a strong and weird lactic sourness, mostly sweet and sugary; almost got scared about it since it was quite unusual and new to me. Taste is again strong lactic sour and some sweet stuff that maybe comes from the spruce brances. Soft carbo, medium body, the 11% abv has completely disappeared, crazy stuff. Something that you don't find often around: extremely different from the rest but fairly drinkable, love it or hate it.