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Sang Bleu (2023) Vee

Hand-pumped. So soft compared to my expectations.. the cask? Fruitiness like a timid blackcurrant married to absent-minded raspberry. Very subtle acidity.. feels like natural fruit tartness. Just enough creamy funk at the palate to remind of Cantillon.

Iris Vee

Vinegar on oven baked apple that was over-ripe to begin.with. Oak. Creamy acetic tail.

Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio (2020) Vee

Autumn scene. The bowl of over-ripe apricots has been supplemented by yellow apples. Apples that have lain on the ground for some time. An open bottle of vinegar. The taste is of a rich but thinned out apple juice. Satin-smooth tartness in the tail

Gueuze (2021) Vee

Apricot and green apple.. but also nail polish with a mouldy cellar edge. The taste is quite mellow and rounded, but a central vein of tartness and funk keeps things interesting. Lactic silk arrives late and stays timid.

Classic Gueuze (2022) Vee

The parmesan is less prominent than two years ago. The apricot has stepped back and integrated much more as well. Baby puke with a nail polish crown has crept in, but it is still quite well-behaved. Pleasingly juicy, tart stone fruit. Grown up.

Gueuze (2023) Vee

Apricot funk, subtle sense of wood, acetone at the edges. Butyric is quite faint. The whip of acid is there in the palate but the tongue gets gentler treatment from the bretty tones. Hmm. Something about how I remember Cantillon is less evident.

Cryo Out Loud Vee

Ripe fruit. Tropical colours. Topmost, lime zest. Peach-mango liquor running through, well integrated. Emphasizes hop flavour. A flash of burn. Lacks a spark.

Green Gold Vee

Caramel and biscuits on pine branches. Bitterness without freshness.

Nelson Sauvignon / Sauvin Brut Vee

Thick and sweet apple juice, vinegar, ripe nectarine. Strawberry. The taste is quite rich and smooth. Creamy with a sense of vanilla and tannin. Oaky tail recalling champagne.

Ice Cold Pilsner Vee

Pretty, rounded cereal and grain. Soft, citric edges Brings out good quality ingredients in balanced fashion, so meets the style requirements.

Limbo Raspberry Vee

Raspberry kissel with a couple of strawberries and a few shavings of rhubarb. Well-balanced taste of succulent tartness. Crafty, delicious.

Sang Bleu (2022) Vee

Initially a medium red wine with cherry notes, then chained up blackcurrant. Lastly, cherry yoghurt. Tart, refreshing red fruit taste.

Implosion Vee

Pineapple and mango winegum. Peach essence. A ghost of dank pine. The taste is actually not that sweet. Low bitterness but a residue hop flavour lingers, overlaid with drops of lemon juice.

Lizard of Koz (2017) Vee

Subdued nose of blueberry liquor, vanilla and the beginnings of leather. Further back, a mixture of becherovka and cola. The taste has by now dried up some. The palate, red berry jam. The tongue, leathery brown sugar. The tail, raspberry vin santo.

Classic Gueuze (2022) Vee

Supernaturally pungent apricot, seamlessly blended with aged hard cheese and over-ripe apples on the ground. Isovaleric acid fumes. Elegance and fruit. The taste is quite soft and young with pretty silk at the palate and an appetizing lactic tail.

Piña Gose Vee

When freshly opened, coconut so thick it's somewhere between solar spray aroma and coconut cream. Pineapple grows as the beer opens up, becoming grilled pineapple slices in the taste. Pleasant, rounded citric tartness throughout. Seamless, subtle salinity

Juleøl Vee

3l 2019 vintage. Obtained as a gift. A bit of chocolate, raisins, juniper berries. Quite rounded by now. Taste reveals a shade of roast, a bit of heat and focuses on the spice. Pleasant enough. Juniper maybe slightly excessive.

Whirl Champions Vee

Lightly roasted pineapple, thick underlying papaya, faint coconut, juicy apricot, candied lime, a drop of marmalade. Remote pine forest. Chewably dank body with nice burn positioned next to pillowy malts and citric zest & pith purée. Satisfying bitter end

Birramisu Vee

Vanilla & espresso with a ton of sugar. Taste invokes the savoiardi better, or rather the coffee liquer they have soaked up. For a tiramisú, this lacks the rich creaminess, mostly, and the biscuit flavour, completely. I would not invest in this trattoria.

Saint Lamvinus Vee

Cherry made more complex by the grape fruitiness hinting at tannins. The funk is quite hidden, lactic is there. The body is very drinkable and acidity does not wear out the palate. Wood. Barrel and stems. Subtle cherry-red grape yoghurt tail.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 11.9% Vee

Fumes of alcohol. They are tempered by an undertone of cacao, a pinch of coffee and the idea of red berries. Ghost of vanilla. Taste has preserved chocolate better, but the coffee is spent. As is the body mostly. Heat. In my book this is now unbalanced.

Panther Cub (2021) Vee

The nose is more timid than I expected. And a bit obvious. Whiskey, maple syrup, hazelnut chocolate. The booze floats on a lean body of toffee and just a bit of red berries. Very drinkable if you do not mind the lack of integration of BA flavours. I do.

Low Slung Vee

Over-ripe mango, raw peach and marmalade with extra bits of orange rind. Taste -- a thickish dankish affair -- feels a tad too sweet at first, but warming up, the zest-like bitterness grows (along with some alcohol), and the sweetness is called for.

Double Svart Vee

The nose is decidedly non-sweet. Blueberry and blackcurrant juice without the sweetness. Tangible berry and berry leaf. Taste is sweet-tart, with a thick juice burn in the throat. Honey seeps through the blackcurrant. Simple in idea, but so satisfying.

Oude Geuze Boon Black Label Edition N°2 Vee

Grapefruit zest and sweetened lime juice; the expected ripe apple. A mineral note, like a stray sea breeze inland. The taste brings to mind a hypothetical raw white wine in some obscure Marche hill trattoria. Minerals, mature fruit, tart, quenching, brett

Peaches En Reguavia Vee

Peach skin interwoven with guava sweetness. Lime. Taste marries that aromatic tropical citrus with bitter pith. Complexity-challenged.

Oude Geuze Boon à l'Ancienne - VAT 31 Mono Blend Vee

Calvados spiked with butyric, but both relatively distant. Over-ripe funky apple is the dominant aroma. Taste is remarkably bitter and dry for the style. Not tart or sour so much. Like a bone-dry saison buried in grapefruit pith. Long astringent tail.

Oude Geuze A L'Ancienne VAT 108bis Mono Blend (2018) Vee

A thin layer of remotely smoky and herbal lardo spread over robust apricot. Youthful brett barges in. Taste introduces a plot twist. Subtle mix of funk and fruit, tingling one's front palate. Lovely sugared acid. Sour milk at the edges. Endless.

George! Barrel Aged Bourbon Vee

Sweet, simple and subtly satisfying. Soft bourbon and milk chocolate on the nose. With all relevant complexities. Ergo in taste department. Agile, alcohol is totally hidden. Simply, pleasing.

Beer Geek Fudgesicle BA Rye Whiskey Vee

Nose of a whiff of orange marmalade over Bailey's sprinkled fudge and a firm licorice base. Taste is dominated by subtle dark syrup, laced with peanut butter and port. Smooth, alc is not present.

Hop Opera Vee

Quite subtle nose of orange marmalade, not quite ripe stone fruit and some dank tropics way back. Taste has some heftier peach bite, swift vanilla and lasting sugar coated cracker.

SpontanCherry Frederiksdal (2021) Vee

The nose is the best part. Besides the intense sour cherry aromas, there is an uncanny cherry flavoured oaked, young red wine component. The body is very thin. A fruity and tart edge first displays, and then lets linger, a bitter almond taste from pits.

Metamorfose Vee

Passionfruit, strong canned peach aroma, dank, marjoram, a sense of gooseberry. In the body, fluffy sweetness carrying the said flavours meets understated but insistent fruit-edged bitterness. Aroma and taste match unusually well.

Winter Hexagon Vee

Extremely juicy aroma of peach and pineapple, some tarter and drier berry aroma in the background. The v. creamy, well-proportioned, sweet and tropical centre is balanced by a quick but persistent hop edge, going from dank to nicely biting. 10% warmth.

Iskold Classic Vee

To me, Vienna lager is a serious matter. To Mikkeller, apparently not. This is a f-ed up bottom-f version of a stronger bitter. Caramel malt and a bit of dark malt on top of pilsner, total lack of body, thin, crude hopping. Nose is ok, for a bitter. Crap.

Underground Mountain Brown Vee

Wonderful nose of roasted coffee blending with dark chocolate and bourbon aromas. Toasted, nutty taste with a berry-bourbon melange, fading into a long sweet alcohol-tinged tail of cocoa.

Oude Geuze Boon (2014-2015) Vee

Rotten apple cider pushing through leather and a bit of nice brett puke. So far, so good. Taste is soft but bitter in a funky, yeasty, somewhat fruity manner. The basic elements are there, but one cannot avoid a sense of dilution in the taste.

Beer Geek Fudgesicle BA Bourbon Vee

Sweet cocoa over very smooth and enticing alcohol. Vanilla from oak, milk chocolate. Red berry in the aftertaste, highlighting the absence of any roasted notes. Something in the tail reminding of a great luscious red or port.

Kamppi Spontan Vee

Boon-style smooth tartsweetness. A bit of vinegar on the nose. A bit simple on the funk, the barnyard is missing. Aftertaste is not complex enough, silkiness is low, no pucker factor really. This is pretty, but afraid to fart.

Fou' Foune Vee

Floral aroma of a lush stone fruit garden and a promise of tartness. Flavour is perfectly balanced sourness and sweet stone fruit. Supremely drinkable. Endlessly complex yet natural.

Nelson Sauvin Brut 2020 Vee

Strong mouthwatering citrus and barnyard brett aroma. Dry and hoppily bitter aftertaste. White wine with a bit of spice on the palate in between. Quite delicious, but the brett is just a bit too subdued beyond the aroma.