Alvinne Omega

Blonde sour ale

3.5

282 reviews

Moen, Belgium

Community reviews

3.3 Bottle I aged for around 12 months. Fizzed over when opened (seems like others have had a similar issue), poured with a big billowy head that dissipates within 1-2 minutes, good amberish clear color. Aroma is sour green apple, melon, dried straw, peach, pear, oak, mild vinegar. Taste is thicker and slightly heavier than the nose implied, notes of sweeter apples, straw and grain, pear, more vinegar than the nose. Carbonation is almost like champagne and keeps it very crisp and dry. Interesting beer combining what feels like a couple different types of sour.

2.5 Bottled 330ml Hazy deep orange colour, small white head. Earthy tartness in the nose, citrus. Light to medium-bodied. Sour, earthy, apple, tangerine in the flavour. Quite challenging. One bottle is enough.

3.3 Keg at the Beavertown Extravaganza, day two, 09/09/2017. A hazed golden coloured pour with a froth white head. Aroma is green sour apple, oak ,tangy sharp sourness, pear. Flavour is composed of melon, straw , apple, pear, woody straw. Palate is light grains, semi sweet, moderate carbonation, ok, sharp.

3.8 Massive gusher, lost half the bottle. Pathetic. But the beer tastes very good at least. Mildly tart and fruity. 🍑 peaches. Online etre bier 3.7 feb 2020 Actually smoked peach. Great beer at Billiest bf antwerp

3.7 Botella de. @Cerveceria Boulevard, Irun. 18/02/2020 Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca aromas herbales, sabores acidos, notas herbales, cuerpo medio.

3.9 Bue ce dimanche soir. Bien agréable sour ale à l'acidité présente sans être prégnante. Légère, bue facilement.

3.9 31-12-2019 La Braña Torrelavega Cerveza Sour elaborada con levadura Morpheus.

3.8 Clear golden color with off-white head. Aroma has citrus, a hint of vinegar, berries and sweet fruity notes. Taste is fruity with long sour and dry aftertaste. Flavors of berries, sour apples, a hint of cherries and other fruity notes.

3.7 Flaska @ La Trappe SF. Gyllengul öl med ett lätt vitt skum. Doft och smak av frukt, frukt- och citrussyrlighet, blött trä och lätt funkighet.

3.0 $5.29 bottle, WW. Pours honey-colored with a dusting of a white head. Aroma is honey, berry, green grasses, copper. Flavor is sour berry, metal, lemon juice. Ordinary, boring sour.

3.3 Well stored bottle. Clear golden body with a thin, short lasting white head. Aroma is medium acidic with hint of fruit and honey. Flavor is sour berries, sour fruit, light malt and lemon. Medium body and sour aftertaste as well. OK but kinda straight forward sour beer without so much complexity.

2.9 Kobber uklar skum hvid tæt Gær eddike stald blomst malt Bitter list sur meget Vandede blød

3.6 Copenhagen 6/7 2019. 33 cl bottle from Mikkeller Web-shop. Another item in Alvinne's series of beers named after the Greek alphabet. Serious looking yellow and brown label telling me that I am about to drink a Flemish Sour. Pours hazy, golden yellow with medium-sized white head. Settles as thin, transparent layer of foam crawling up the sides of the glass. Moderate lacing. Aroma is intense, acerbic and sharp. Green apples, citrus and vinegar. Funky notes lurking in the background. Light sweetness of ripening fruit. Faint but noticeable. Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, lightly tingling texture. Flavor is lightly sweet followed by a strong sourness. Aftertaste is sour but with a sweetish undercurrent that gives a sense of balance. Lingers for a short while. A nice sour ale which have just enough sweetness to make it interesting.

3.8 On tap at the Gist, Brussels. Hazy golden, minimal head. Wild yeasty aroma, very funky, dusty, some fruit. Ripe fruit, stale bread, cheese. Pretty sour and puckering. Vinous. Medium body, moderate carbonation.

2.3 Wygląd: bursztynowe, lekkie zmętnienie, drobna pianka Aromat: dosyć obrzydliwy - kanalizacja Smak: trochę zgniłe jaja, lambikowa kwasota, landrynkowo-jabłkowa nutka słodyczy na koncu, Ocena: kanalizacja psuje całe odczucie

3.2 Feinporige weisse Schaumkrone, opalisierend Kupferfarben, frische säuerliche Fruchtnoten, Banane, Honig, Stroh. Im Antrunk weich und frisch nach Zitrusfrüchten, später milchsauer brotige Nuancen

3.9 Pours a hazy, deep golden amber coloration with a large, foamy head. Smells of biscuity wheat malt and estery yeast notes of green apple and mild peppery spice, with hints of peach and white grape. Taste is a great balance of biscuity wheat malt, estery yeast notes of tart green apple and peppery spice and some lighter hoppy notes of peach, white grape and grass. Finishes with quite dry, with a very light bitterness, mild tartness and some green apple notes lingering in the aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation. A very pleasant Belgian Sour Ale that just has a great, mellow balance going on where nothing really stands out too much and everything complements each other very well.

3.8 Bottle in the Victorian Beer Cafe in Halifax. Pours amber with no head. Light stewed fruits aroma. Tart and sour taste. Citrus and yogurt. Very nice.

3.4 330ml bottle at the House of Belgium, Xiamen. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast and malt. Sour taste. Thin finish. Refreshing.

3.9 Tap. Nuetigenough, Brussels. Hazed, deep gold. Thick and sticky, bright white foam. Nose has cracker malts. Lemony brett. Soft pepper spice. Light, flowery herb. Taste is tart, dry, and lime leaf bitter. Medium body. Crisp and dry. Fine carbonation. Tart, lemon bitterness to finish. Great condition this. Very nice.

3.8 Sample @Borefts Beer Festival 2018, day 2 with [Zlotta/Sjogro/Maakun/Svartvit]. licht geel/gouden met witte kraag. aroma van hout en stro, paardendeken, stal, mout, smaken zijn matig tot redelijk zuur, hout, redelijk droog, beperkt, glad, maar toch best wel ok

3.4 Sampled from tap at Borefts 2018. Hazy, orangeish amber with a white head. Sweetish, sourish, gently fruity aroma of peach, passion fruit and some lemon. Minimally sweet, quite sour, gently fruity taste of peach, lemon, passion fruit and some vinegar, followed by a medium long, fairly tart finish. Medium body, fairly astringent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Nice!

3.7 Sampled during Borefts 2018 at De Molen. Pours a hazy golden orange, close to no head. Sweet fruity, pineapple, berries, yeasty esters, Alvinne funk.

3.8 Borefts day 2. Hazy dark golden with no head. Sour grain, sweet and sour dried apricot, grapes. Moderate sweet and bitter and sour. Medium body and soft carbonation.

3.6 Draft at Tria Taproom. Murky amber. Difficult pour. Large amount of beige foam at the start quickly reduced to a thin ring. Some nail polish in the nose. Dense sour. Muddled dark fruit and bright acids. Apricots. Mandarins. Raspberries. Wild strawberries. Kumquats. Plums and prunes. Figs. Dates. Tart and brash.

4.0 Monday, August 27, 2018. Bottle, 33cL. 6%. @bar Le_Cluricaume, Poitiers (86), FR. Sharing the table with a black cat. An orange opaque beer with a medium white foamy head ; ok retention ; ok lacing. Acid fruity smell, wild, wood, plum, herb. Light to medium dry sour, medium sweet, light dry bitter refreshing. Good body, light to medium oily texture, average gaseous, fruity wild lasting dry finish. Overall, delicious.

3.8 Bottle from eebria. Amber colour with a thin off white head. Aroma has a fruity and berry tart fruit. Taste light sour. Medium body.

3.2 Rocky white head left a froth on a hazy dark orange coloured, finely carbonated body. Sour citrus, orange & Belgian yeast aroma. Medium bodied, prickly over the tongue with a smooth back. Belgian yeast, sour citrus, peach & calcium tastes. Alvinnes's own yeast adds to the uniqueness of the tastes.

3.3 Bottle. Golden, foggy, strong white foam. Aroma: very sour and quite wild, hay and old cheese, specific.Taste: sour, lemon and citrus, some savagery, tart, knit, very strange, weird.

3.8 One of the more 'classic' sour ales by Alvinne, in existence since four years now; from an older bottle bought at Gedeelde Vreugde in Sint-Niklaas as a means of catch-up, since I seem to have missed this one in previous years. Quite violent gusher - it took a lot of patience and 'Fingerspitzengefühl' to open this while reducing the amount of beer loss; a reminiscence of Alvinne's old problems I guess. Towering high, coarse, irregular, egg-white head quickly reduced to some loose patches, over a misty, deep and warm orange-hued peach blonde beer. Aroma initially very sharp, apple vinegar, slowly softening to reveal subtler impressions of sour white grapes, unripe nectarine, artisanal cider, gooseberry jam, chalk, soggy white bread, dusty old cupboard, old white wine, bread crust, hints of raw radish, sweat, rainwater, sandpaper and a very slight onset of rusty oxidation. Crisp, sour onset, sour grape impression first and foremost but hinting at gooseberry, old apples, raw rhubarb and unripe nectarine as well, with a sweetish core as is usually the case in Alvinne sours, providing softness and balance; finely tingling carb, supple, tad vinous mouthfeel. Bread crust- and slightly caramelly maltiness, sweetish and soft in its nature but dried by the overall tartness, which remains refreshingly citric and crisp without descending into overdone 'vinegariness'. Some drying wood tannins in the end, a tad 'dusty' and powdery, with crisp and fruity sourness lingering beyond that, eventually merging with an earthy yeast note, as well as something weirdly chalky. The gushing is a technical and practical issue here, obviously, but having tasted a lot of Alvinnes lately, this to me is a nice - if not nostalgic - reminder of how their ventures in sour ale world began; a bit uncontrollable and something of an unguided projectile, but pointing straight forward to the greatness they would achieve in this particular field a few years onwards (i.e. today). It was a very pleasant experience to look back into Alvinne's sour ale past - even if this Omega, Sigma and Phi trio were far from their first experiments in the field - and I must say that apart from that gushing and the slight hint of onsetting oxidation, I enjoyed this very much, even more so than I did the Sigma and Phi years ago. This beer was, however, far from the last letter in the alphabet of Alvinne's sour ale expertise.