Lambickx (Wambeek, De Troch)
Brouwerij De Troch in Wambeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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Blended aged Lambics from Belgium by Don Feinberg of Vanberg & DeWulf. Producded from 2011 to 2015.
Lambics are truly the “wines” of the beer world. With wine one speaks of “gout de Terroir” because the land so influences a wine’s flavor. With Lambics, one must speak of “gout de Tonneau SM“ because each cask (tonneau) produces a lambic that matures and tastes different. Blending these Tonneau is such an art that there exist independent Geuzestekkerij (blenders) who buy young Lambic then age and bottle it under their own name.
Lambickx™ is Vanberg & Famille’s brand of hand-selected and blended lambics. Every Lambic with the Lambickx™ name is made from casks personally tasted and chosen by Don Feinberg, one of the first importers of Belgian beer to America and founder of the first Belgian-only brewery in the U.S. Don chooses his Lambics for their complexity, brilliance and drinking excellence both by themselves and as exquisite accompaniments to food.
Barrel Type: 275- & 600-liter French Oak
Lambics are truly the “wines” of the beer world. With wine one speaks of “gout de Terroir” because the land so influences a wine’s flavor. With Lambics, one must speak of “gout de Tonneau SM“ because each cask (tonneau) produces a lambic that matures and tastes different. Blending these Tonneau is such an art that there exist independent Geuzestekkerij (blenders) who buy young Lambic then age and bottle it under their own name.
Lambickx™ is Vanberg & Famille’s brand of hand-selected and blended lambics. Every Lambic with the Lambickx™ name is made from casks personally tasted and chosen by Don Feinberg, one of the first importers of Belgian beer to America and founder of the first Belgian-only brewery in the U.S. Don chooses his Lambics for their complexity, brilliance and drinking excellence both by themselves and as exquisite accompaniments to food.
Barrel Type: 275- & 600-liter French Oak
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
375ml pours a clear, dark cherry red with some pink clumpy head. Nose is weird. Green vegetable, plastic, some stone fruit, strawberry. Flavor is better, cherry and strawberry, fruit roll up. Jammy finish. A touch thin. Weird. Probably on its last legs.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2026
at 22:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Slightly unclear golden with a small white head. Nice aroma with cellar notes, wood, moderate fruity, quite mild but nice aroma. Very pleasant flavor, high drinkability, a nice balance between sweet and sour, fruity and wood like aroma, moderate funky as often common with ublended lambic. Fine body and long lasting aftertaste. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2025
at 07:46
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750ml bottle at share. Hazy pale golden pour, fizzy head. Yeasty, funky aroma, wood barrel, floral, fruity. Taste is yeasty funky, sweet, cheese, with a little tartness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Mar 2024
at 07:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml shared with Ryan, Phill, and Nick. Brewed 2013, bottled 2015. Appearance: hazy blonde with a white head. Aroma: a bit of cardboard, green apples, peanut shells. Taste: same. Overall: interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2023
at 12:19
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 375mL bottle (vintage 2013/2015). Lots of earthy apple, mild horse blanket, green peanut innards, odd but decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2023
at 12:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Arrogant Sour Festival, 2022. Hazy orange with white head. Funk, fruit, barrel, wood. Medium sourness.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2022
at 20:03
Tried
on 06 Jul 2019
at 14:38
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Lambickx, a brand developed by Vanberg & Dewulf (an American import company), has produced a number of different lambic beers so far, partially making use of Boon lambic (under the name 'Private Domain') and partially making use of De Troch lambic. This rating concerns the 2013 De Troch version, bottled in 37.5 cl bottles, one of only 2436 ever made apparently (most of these De Troch blends went in 75 cl bottles). Big thanks to Johan for sharing this relative rarity. Snow white, mousy, quickly opening, bubbly head over an initially near clear, 'metallic' old gold robe with lively sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma exhibits a lot of damp cellar from aging - in damp circumstances, clearly - mixed with damp haystack, old apple peel, old dry bread crust, rusty oxidation setting in, dried out lemon peel, grass silage, old crumbled cheese, dusty old books. Softly sour onset, lemon peel edge, softish carb but still refinedly sparkling, smooth; old green apple peel soaked in dried lemon flesh and musty cellar, some rotting wood even in the end, damp hay, bread crusty in its base and mildly tannic in the end. Shows that typical bitterish-grassy, weedy and very 'dusty', unique character of De Troch lambic, but the damp cellar circumstances of the past five years of aging have physically crept into the bottle - though to me, having fallen in love with traditionally made lambics a long time ago, this and the dust-covered, worn out label have a certain charm as well.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jun 2019
at 07:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lambickx (Wambeek, De Troch) (2013/2015), Lots and all kinds of Cheese, funky, fruity, cellar, lemon, zest, wood, yeast, farmhouse, dry, sweet (sugary), flat, lacks complexity, apple
Tried
on 03 Jun 2019
at 14:30
7/10
Lots and all kinds of Cheese, funky, fruity, cellar, lemon, zest, wood, yeast, farmhouse, dry, sweet (sugary), flat, lacks complexity, apple
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2019
at 16:14