Pumpkin Lambicus
Timmermans in Itterbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
6.43
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Pours a dark orange color with a creamy head. Aroma of pumpkin pie, fall spices, brown sugar, wheat, and a tart, funky earthiness. Tastes of pumpkin pie with hints of sour citrus fruit and wheat. Export to the United States only.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Treated as a lambic, this was poured into a pokal.
The appearance was a soft burnt orange (yes, pumpkin color) with a quickly dieing head. No lacing.
The aroma starts with a sweet pumpkin fleshiness flowing into subtle sour citrus rind-like character. What’s nice about this is that the sweetness seems quite balanced. Warming slight cinnamon smells nice. Slight acceptable apple juice after a little bit of further warming.
The flavor leans sweet first and then brings in the sour pretty nicely. It’s pumpkin fleshy, like real pumpkin, there’s nothing remotely fake about this at all. And the sour that comes in is real nice. Barely any aftertaste (but what there is seems a blend of apple juice to pumpkin flesh), escaping mostly quick finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a fantastic sesssionability about it. Low carbonation. No stickiness.
Overall, lambic - check, subsiding sour - check, pumpkin fleshy sweetness - check. Now if this doesn’t make for a nice early Autumn’s evening, nothing will.
The appearance was a soft burnt orange (yes, pumpkin color) with a quickly dieing head. No lacing.
The aroma starts with a sweet pumpkin fleshiness flowing into subtle sour citrus rind-like character. What’s nice about this is that the sweetness seems quite balanced. Warming slight cinnamon smells nice. Slight acceptable apple juice after a little bit of further warming.
The flavor leans sweet first and then brings in the sour pretty nicely. It’s pumpkin fleshy, like real pumpkin, there’s nothing remotely fake about this at all. And the sour that comes in is real nice. Barely any aftertaste (but what there is seems a blend of apple juice to pumpkin flesh), escaping mostly quick finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a fantastic sesssionability about it. Low carbonation. No stickiness.
Overall, lambic - check, subsiding sour - check, pumpkin fleshy sweetness - check. Now if this doesn’t make for a nice early Autumn’s evening, nothing will.
Tried
on 21 Sep 2016
at 17:58
6.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle: Clear, bubbled, coppery-gold with a faint ring. Aroma is a bit cidery, apple...yeast. Taste is sweet, not much pumpkin, more apple and brown sugar, really. Ok, but not very biting or sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2016
at 17:49
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home. Pours clear dark amber with a thin white head. Aromas of funky vegetables, savoury, cinnamon. Taste is more cinnamon, light demerara sugar, light sour. Chalky, cinnamon finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2015
at 14:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Appellation Wines (it was the last one sorry!) Appearance - amber/orange with a nice fluffy head. Nose - funky, vegetal, savoury generally. Taste - pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon perhaps? Palate - close to medium bodied with a creamy yet dry tangy texture and a dry finish. Overall - you start with a pumpkin with the intentions of making a beer. It’s a difficult order, so not the worst attempt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Dec 2015
at 07:31
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Apple/pumpkin, malt, and light vinegar aroma. Golden yellow with small head. Sweet brown sugar, pumpkin, malt, and mild lactic/vinegar flavor. Decent body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2015
at 17:57
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle shared. Pours clear amber with a big bubbly cream head. Aroma of massive mineral, pumpkin light but present, spice and cinnamon. Flavour is light moderate sweet with no real sourness. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 09:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with Kermis. Pumpkin aroma. Medium creamy off white head. Clear light amber pour. Not sour. Easy drinking
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2015
at 09:00
7/10
Tried
on 24 Oct 2015
at 18:26
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 75 cl bottle corked at capped. Clear Amber with small white head. Aroma is light subtle pumpkin, light body, medium carbonation, and some lacing. Taste is nice tart pumpkin. I would like to have this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Oct 2015
at 19:28
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Weird addition to the range of compromized Timmermans ’lambics’ probably aimed at the American pumpkin ale market; stable, moussy, egg-white head, orange blonde with strong fizz, lightly hazy. Aroma has only very limited lambic properties, vague wheat, sherry and woody notes, but overpowered by pumpkin ale spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger), ’speculoos’, apple juice and iron; sweetish taste, almost softly cider-like, pumpkin flavouring apparent but softly so, bit metallic, thin body, even a bit watery in the end, with soft pumpkin and pumpkin ale spiciness. I was hoping for a true ’oud’ lambic beer with only actual pumpkin (and pumpkin ale spices perhaps), but this is again a diluted, sweetened beer stripped of most of its lambic character. Another hyper-commercial John Martin flub, if you ask me.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Aug 2015
at 14:12