Wintergeuze (2017)

Описание

Geuze blend made of 2, 3 and 4 year old lambic. The idea behind this beer sprouted from one of the many trips to Pajottenland to learn about the history of lambic. At the legendary pub De Rare Vos, kriek was made in barrels up to the late90s by Jef Schaumans. I was gifted one of the old 100 liter barrels from the cellar,which was unusable but still a nice decoration barrel. When I continued my trip to acolleague lambic brewer, he told me the history behind the barrel. This barrel wasused for many decades at brouwerij De Neve. When they were emptying big barrelsand foeders, they ran all the sediment into these small barrels for further clarification.I was told it made a really intense, heavy lambic. Fast forward to 2017. We wereracking off and blending a lot of barrels, and we saved all the sediment so we couldfill another barrel with only sediment. One year later we were anxious to taste it, andit indeed was a damn rich and full bodied lambic. Heavy on barrel character, whichshows the importance we attach to sourcing specific fresh wine barrels for fermentingand aging our beers. We blended this barrel with a geuze blend that was aged in asingle port barrel for 2 years, resulting in a big and bold wintergeuze. Bottled in November 2018