JBrady
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Hello I just bought my first orval beer and I noticed that it was bottled in 2008, is that too long for a trappist beer age, or should this thing taste awesome? thanks
Hello I just bought my first orval beer and I noticed that it was bottled in 2008, is that too long for a trappist beer age, or should this thing taste awesome? thanks
The sourness from the Brett. Orval is bottled with Brettamyces. A souring bug. I had a 2007 bottle I believe this past year. It wasn't as good as fresher stuff.
FWIW, brett doesn't do any souring. It adds a different yeast character mostly described as horse blanket, earthy, stone fruit or barnyard. Sourness in an Orval comes moetly from the high carbonation. Sourness in other Blegians (like Lambic) comes from the bacteria lactobacillus and acetobacter.
it was bottled in 2008, is that too long for a trappist beer age,
thanks for all the info, but I still have yet to figure out where the tart flavors come from with beers like delirium tremens, chimay cinq cents, and leffe blonde.
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