Witte/White Lambic
Mort Subite in Kobbegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style Regular|
Score
5.78
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Mort Subite Witte Lambic is an unfiltered beer based on spontaneously fermented lambic. From the first sip, Mort Subite White Lambic seduces with its beautiful sunny color, its accessible fresh taste, its fruity character and its subtle aromatic nuances of coriander and curaçao (orange peel).
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5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
[9/20/15] Bottle on a park bench in Brussels. Hazy orange with a white head. Candy-ish peach aroma. Sweet flavor, with peach, kinda candy-ish, a light tart hint, and a faint bitterish note in the finish. Light-bodied, fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2015
at 03:38
6.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
250 ml. bottle. Picked up at the supermarket. BBF 07-11-16. A new & rebranded version of their previous Mort Subite Blanche. A beer that almost seemed to highlight the similarities between the historical witbier & lambiek but also lost the plot a bit due to its mainstream, sugary plot. It was an odd & sugary affair but it was also one that was oddly somewhat enjoyable. Pours an almost clear golden, big disappearing creamy white head. Nose is hugely & artificially sweet, banana & very sweet lemon sorbet, desert treats, hugely sugary, vanilla, pudding wheat & banana. Taste is oddly lightly chemically sour, artificial, odd touch of yoghurt, sweet lactic peach & big banana. Very odd, partially enjoyable in an odd candy type of way, the bizarre sourness comes across as being hugely chemical, bad sweeteners & bizarre sour peach yoghurt. I cannot stress enough how chemical & sweetener-like sourness comes across as opposed to anything that I would ever associate with lambiek. Fizzy beer. Even stranger, even more chemical than its predecessor. It is almost like a spoiled lemonade. Too off-putting on some ways to fully enjoy but bizarrely gripping as well. Weird chemical beer / soft drink. Could be perceived as a decent Radler. So weird & chemical. Too much so though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2015
at 15:02
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from the Republique Monoprix. Pours hazy light gold with a transient white head. Aroma is a very, very light gueuze. Maybe with a citrus hint. It’s a really light scent. Med minus body. Flavor is citrus and ? It’s not unpleasant, but it’s not much at all, flavor wise.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2015
at 14:02
3.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 3
0,25L bottle (from Koht). Pours hazy golden with white head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, wheat, fruits, bakers yeast. Flavor is sweet, very weak sourness, wheat, bakers yeast with sugar, fruity-raspberry like notes. Overall: it’s currently under unblended lambic, wtf?! This has nothing to do with unblended lambic or even with lambic at all. Ohh and why did they put pure bakers yeast in my beer?!
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2015
at 14:49
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
The updated version of Mort Subite Blanche, since a couple of months. Very dense, thickly lacing, whipped cream-like, snow white head over a hazy golden blonde beer with greenish hue; looks very much like a witbier indeed. Aroma of candied lemon, powder sugar, banana-flavoured bubblegum, cinnamon, sweetbread, orange lemonade, perfumey bath foam, lime juice, coriander. Sugary sweet onset, bubblegum- and lemonade-like, some artificial citrus with a faint chemical bitterishness next to it, slick and rather thin body with spritzy carbo, wheat flavour blended with pale malt sweetness, lemonade-like sourishness continuing but nothing really lambic-like and persisting till deep into the finish, along with the sugar sweetness (but not overly cloying), some dull coriander and wheat taste; no real bitterness apart from a very faint chemical wryness, fortunately not strong enough to become truly bothersome. A faint ’chalky’ effect lingers as well. What most bothers me, is the one-sided, boring sugar sweetness which dominates this beverage; lambic as such is unnoticeable, this is another sweet ’deterioration’ of lambic culture - just now that authentic lambic beers are enjoying renewed attention. Seems like an even more simplified Heineken-conducted version of the original Mort Subite Blanche, which was in itself already a boringly sweet witbier interpretation with practically no lambic qualities (and a clone of what Timmermans had done before, by the way). Artificial, rather ’unbeery’ and too sweet: clearly nothing of interest here. Lastly: who classified this here as an ’unblended lambic’?? Granted, the idea is difficult to categorize in the styles recognized here, but I think witbier or even fruit beer would give a more accurate idea to consumers who consult this site on this particular beer...
Tried
from Can
on 02 Oct 2015
at 14:47
2.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 2
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 1
Bottle from Belgiuminabox.com . Pours unclear blonde. small white head fades rather fast. Smell is overly sweet, chemical and just bad. Taste is bit bitter, sweet , candy-necklace thingies all over again. Lambic you say ???? No funk, no sourness whatsoever... Maybe some 16 y old girls could get happy by drinking this, but I certainly don’t
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2015
at 12:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Flaska från Saveur-bier. Gyllenfärgad, disig med vitt lågt skum. Frisk, lätt syrlig men också relativt söt och med en konstig smakbild. Lite tvålig, rosenvatten, bubbelgum, apelsinskal, kokos, lite vetesyrligt lätt träig beska. Ganska konstig och artificiell. Ok.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 09:51