Zwanze 2022 - Poivre de Gorilles

Lambic - Other

This year’s Zwanze is a two-year-old Lambic blend with black pepper. For this year’s beer, we worked with Sandrine from Misao: La Maison des Poivres here in Brussels. Sandrine had us try various types of Congolese pepper, and we eventually decided on one called poivre de Gorilles. This pepper grows wild in the forests of the Republic of the Congo. Aromatic, but not too spicy, it blends beautifully with the refreshing acidity of our Lambic. The result is a beer that will pair marvelously with meat or fish. The name poivre de Gorilles comes from the area where it grows, in Likouala Forest, located in the northeastern region of the Republic of the Congo. This forest is home to a significant population of Lowland gorillas – a species in danger of extinction. That’s why we’ll be donating a portion of the profits from the event to Gorilla (https://www.gorilla.fr/), an organization which works to protect these Great Apes.

ABV

6.9

Rating

4.342

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josh h

zwanze backlog - executed so well, so much softer on the palate vs first whiff, would be an incredible food pairing beer. also #Harambe

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Aude Legrand

C'est quelque chose ! Le poivre est là à 100% et ça fait plaisir !

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Michael N.

This not only grew on me with each sip, but became quite good, IMO. It's divisive w/ the initial (powerful) black pepper aroma & first few sips, but the palate adjusts & a citrus and mild floral component emerge. The pepper nose should taper off in time.

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Amélie Forest

Chanceuse de pouvoir y regoûter. La deuxième fois est plus concluante pour moi. Vraiment belle balance poivre-acidité-rondeur dans cette bière. La table à côté est la table la plus loud que j’ai jamais entendu de ma vie.

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Rick

An acquired taste, so much pepper! Love it

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Mike Lopez

Zwanze Day 2022 at Bagby

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Sunup Hwang

후추의 매력이 그대로. 아주 실험적이면서도 맛까지 잡은 좋은 맥주.

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Gael G.

Bottled version. Tried directly after opening and a couple hours later. At that point it's a little rough, everything is more intense than on tap, greener, more lemon, more of a peppery bite. Palate is in between and better but still need a few months

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Patrick Dolan

Nice change of pace but overbearing dry black pepper to me; would love to try this in a few years #Backlog

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Lefkovits János

Szerintem ez zseniális!

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Christophe Smeets

Knappe geuze! Wow! Zeer speciaal en uniek. Peperig zuurtje!

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Joachim Tops

Smooth soft sour geuze, not overpowering. Beautiful afternote of pepper, soft but present and long lingering.

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Anthony Nunez

Très aromatique, beaucoup de poivre évidemment, très plaisante, se boit toute seule

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Dave

Still on in the Cross Keys. Just had a third. Fruity, fairly sour, pepper on the finish

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Kate B

Delicious, one of the most unusual beers I’ve ever had, aromatic peppery almost floral with Canttillon acidity and dryness to finish

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Luce

Peppery and Floral. Really different

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Chris

The pepper works really well in this

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Igors Agapovs

🤌🏼

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Bill Kissick

Surprise catch at the Whale

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Christopher McGuire

Pepper on the nose. The pepper dominates the flavors, but still leaves room for notes of lemon. Lightly earthy as well. Just a delight for the senses!

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Dylan Williams

Not a bad way to end a long week of beer.

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Matt

At Bear’s house, Montpellier, yesterday

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Frank Villari

Backlog 9/24

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Tim H

Pepper, lemon, grass, solvent, strong herbal notes. Excellent

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Gabriel S

Nose with tons of peppers there, the beer starts fruity mild, nice sour with fruity peppers. Great aromatic, lots of pepper without being hot. Great sourish fruity, mild with tons of pepper! Fantastic.

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Paul McD

Floral pepper which marries really well with the lambic, almost perfumed herbicity; unlike anything else, and quintessentially zwanze. Love it.

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Lindsay F

Belated zwanze 🍻

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Jon Ford

A special beer

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Waingro

All hail Cantillon. [the crowd hail]

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Tony

Distinkt aroma av pepper. Litt såpete på smak - men på en ok måte. Moderat syrlig. Under pepperen er det rikelig med sødme. Det skjer mye i munnen. Aprikos. Treverk. Appelsinskall. Og syrligheten i appelsin også. Er det en pepra Zwanze '21? Digg øl!

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Beer EAGLES

Some lovely Cantilloneux bought us and our tables this bottle. Who does that??! So floral, nutty, and even black pepper which works for some reason.

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Avril Luongo

Who needs Zwanze day when you can get it at the source? The pepper lends amazing floral and umami notes.

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Simon R

So much pepper on the nose, light, maybe a little honey and herb. Lovely beer

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Dylan Nicolas

Super cool, a voir dans quelques années 😇

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some hippie

Unsurprisingly, the pepper has not faded.

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Brian N.

So much pepper

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Andrew Whyte

Amazing, black pepper lambic really works, super aromatic

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Norman Knyazev

4.375 - most non-surprising but also most pleasant zwanze in the last few years. Good straberry green apple hay lambic lightly vinous lambic base with the pepper sizzling in the background w/ red fruity and red peppercorn notes.

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Greg B

J'en boirais pas des litres mais sacré kick de poivre, assez vert, c'est vraiment cool

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Stefan S

It has gotten a slightly more floral peppery parfymy nose, than on zwanse. The pallet is still dialed down more balanced. Black pepper. Clean. Light citrus zesty nackbone. Medium carb.

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