Chapeau Faro
Brouwerij De Troch in Wambeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Regular|
Score
5.74
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4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
375mL bottle, pours a murky dark amber brown with little head, but tons of sediment floating about. Aroma is mostly candied sugar, with a touch of acidic notes - suggesting an intensely sweet flavour. The flavour confirms this, but there is more than just sweet, with some lightly sour notes to balance. The sour is almost akin to a Flemish sour, but without the elegance. Carbonation is almost non-existent, with a flat body. Overall, balanced between sweet and sour pretty well, with no cloying sweetness as usual with the other Chapeau fruit "lambics". All in all, not as bad as I thought, though certainly far from a real lambic (faro or otherwise).
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2013
at 21:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Drank from the bottle but poured some on the ground to check the colour, brownish amber with little in the way of head. Expected the very worst from this beer considering my previous experiences with their sweetened geuze. Smell is extremely sweet, almost hard to comprehend & the same goes for the taste. Pure candy sugar syrup, the initial feeling is that of pure shock, very thick honey, syrup, thick coca-cola / soda sensation, dark fruit syrup and some very sweet wood. Super thick caramel. Carbonation is nice. Unimaginably chemical and so sweet that even I am taken back but this was actually enjoyable even if not in a beer way. This is good soda syrup or something like that. (25 cl. bottle // drank straight from the bottle @ bus stop with Artiom // purchased from Willems en Zoon // BBF 26/10/2013)
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2013
at 10:17
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Pours murky copper brown with no head at all. Clear vinous aroma. Mild vinous onset, giving way to dominant, sweetish honey notes. Dryish and vinous aftertaste. Rather unbalanced. Nothing impressive, but clearly one of the two varieties from De Troch which are drinkable. The others should be delegalised ASAP.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2013
at 13:24
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
I don’t know why I do this to myself....Bottle from De Troch Brewery. It pours clear deep brown, with a tiny, bubbly off-white head. The nose is tangy, ice tea, vanilla, caramel and light vinegar. The taste is caramel, sweet apple, pear, tangy, artificial sweetness, ice tea, cherry, faint sourness and boiled sweets, with a short finish. Light-medium body and lowish carbonation. Actually has a bit of sourness to it. On hindsight this isn’t the worst faro I have had…not a drain pour anyway.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2012
at 03:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
bottle from beer planet. clear brown, smooth white head. nice fruity sour aroma, faint stale hops, faint barnyard. flavor is pretty acetic, medzine cabinet, fruity sweetness, While sweetened, the lambic flavor comes clean and crisp, and the sweetness does not ruin the lambic as i think it does in some other sweetened lambics.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2012
at 16:18
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle 4,75%. Dark brown with tiny beige head. Aroma is malt, little sour, little citric and candy sugar. Flavour is malt, candy sugar, little sour, sweet and sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2012
at 09:30
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Unclear brown with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet malty and dark sugar. Flavor is quite sweet and light acidic. Sweet finish. 190712
Tried
on 19 Jul 2012
at 07:22
3.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
Wow, this beer is too sweet. A little bit sourness of the lambic, but it disappears in the overwhelming sweetness of sugars and sweeteners. Very bad faro!
Tried
on 09 Apr 2012
at 08:00
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle at Delirium Tremens, Brussels
Hazy brown color, small sized head. Some aroma of rotten apples. Typical Chapeu flavor, sweet-fruity non-beery thingy.
Hazy brown color, small sized head. Some aroma of rotten apples. Typical Chapeu flavor, sweet-fruity non-beery thingy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2012
at 08:02
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
12.7oz Bottle Pours out a rust orange topped with a small ring of a head. Aroma was very sweet some pitfruit along with lots of sugar. Taste was more of the sweetness and a little fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2012
at 16:42