Mirakel
Brouwerij Brasserie De Ranke

 

Pours a hazy amber color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has tart fruit hints
Taste has a nice tart fruit flavor
A light bodied well carbonated beer
A good Gueuze

Bottled in 37,5 cl of green glass that has a visible yeast sediment and purchased from newly relocated Beermoth shop previously on Tib street now in Café Beermoth
Pours a hazy amber body
Aroma is big uptown funk
Flavour is Belgian candy, but no sweetness, only bitter sourness

Copenhagen 30/11 2019. 75 cl bottle from Køl Beer Web-shop. Stylized drawing of a Barrel on the label in a green shade.

Pours unclear golden yellow with a small white head. Settles as thin, almost transparent layer of foam unable to cover the surface of the beer.

Aroma is acerbic sour with a subtle sweetness. Sour white wine, green apples, sour gooseberries. Hints of funk. Light odor of caramel and sweet fruit.

Light carbonation. Thin, oily, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is lightly sweet followed by a strong sourness. Aftertaste is vinous and tart. Dry finish.

A bit short of a Miracle but certainly a fine Vinous, tart drink.

Hazy, golden color. Thin, white head. Pickled apples, grapes, and wood in the funky aroma. Pleasantly sour taste with an almost champagne mouthfeel.Good.

Cellared 3 years. Cloudy orange body, finger of pearl white foam. Amazingly funky nose, barnyard, horse blanket, barrel funk. Also get hay, lemon, hint of sulfur, green apple, and peach skin. Tastes nowhere near as funky, tart, green apple and lemon lead with more of a barrel or wild funk on the back, but it doesn’t dry out as much as expected, bright oak is detected here. Feel as wet and tart with mild acidity, funk is in the background with the oak.

 

 

 

 

 

Bottle: Poured a dirty golden color lambic with a large off-white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of funky ester with some tart notes and some oak presence. Taste is also a mix of funky ester with some barnyard notes and some tart notes with some oak presence also perceptible. Body is about average with excellent carbonation. Easy drinking lambic with a nice level of complexity.

 

 

With the popularity of their past Cuvee series, De Ranke rolls out quite a miracle in taste. Or so they say.

Mirakel gets started with a racy champagne pour, golden straw in color and fizzy with froth before falling still and frothless. A sharp tingle of the nose suggests a strong citrus, cider and melon scent with a musty floral suggestion of lavender, damp burlap and a soft mossy character. Light sweetness plays on the tongue like honeysuckle and taffy in a very short and cracker-like malt display.

As the sour ale washes the middle palate, it does so with a straight lactic acid tartness. Brisk, refreshing and somewhat basic, the beer shares fruity attributes of crabapple, sour white grape and lemon with hints of grapefruit, lime, gooseberry and yuzu all seeming of a weathered, branch-dried mustiness. The juiciness of honeydew offers a slightly plump flavor and feel while the beer trails into a grassy bitterness of hay, weathered woods and a slight sea-like brine.

Light, crisp and highly refreshing, Mirakel finishes super clean, lactic and bracingly tart. Lacking complexity and depth has the palate wanting something more earthy, rustic and complex. But this basic sour taste trails with a short brisk and highly thirst quenching aftertaste. Basic, simple and yet pleasant throughout.

 

A 750ml bottle, 2018 vintage, bottled in June 2018, with a best before date of 8th June 2023. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.

Appearance: A lightly hazy golden straw yellow colour with pretty much no head and no lacing.

Aroma: Light funk, barnyard, oak, lemon peel, apricot, and Champagne grape.

Taste: Lightly sour, funky, oak, lemon, green apple, with notes of apricot.

Mouthfeel: Light bodied with soft to no carbonation.

Overall: Aroma and flavours were not as bold or funky as some of the better Gueuze’s I’ve tried, and I wasn’t fond of the lack of carbonation.