Faro Lambicus
Timmermans in Itterbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Regular|
Score
6.17
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Taste-wise… A sweet beer with a base of lambic enhanced with water and candy sugar, to make it just light enough. The sugared notes predominate, imparting a general flavour which does not intensify on the palate but is wonderfully refreshing.
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Grzesiek79 (7624) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
375ml bottle from Piwa Regionalne in Katowice. Lambic dosladzany, slodki ale i przy tym na szczescie odrobine kwasny. Owocowy, wyczuwalne jabjka, Mala pianka, lekko metne, kolor jasnej herbaty. Zapach wyrazisty. Przydala by sie odrobina wiecej wytrawnosci
mart (27297) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle (from belgiuminabox). Pours amber with whiteish head. The small head stays for some moments. Aroma is mild funk, wheat, pears. Flavor is very sweet, some sourness, mild funk, fruits, bit watery. Overall: OK, feels bit like sweet lemonade with some lambic poured in.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle at home, 11/12/15. Orange amber with a well appointed light beige covering that soon collapses. Nose is light balsa, marzipan, Seville orange marmalade, ripe fruit, sweet candied sugars. Taste comprises sweet sugars, candy bar, light must, mild tarteness to the fruit, quince paste. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, caked with residual sugars in the close. Way to sweet.
DSG (25977) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
[9/20/15] Bottle on a park bench in Brussels. Clear golden with a white head. Grainy lager aroma with a vegetal hint. Sweet flavor, candy-ish, sugary, grainy, with some fruitiness and a faint tart hint. Light-bodied, kinda sticky. Pretty bad.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Timmermans’ take on the commercial bottled faro style, bottle from Fontana in Sint-Niklaas. Loose, milky, light greyish white, irregular head, thinning out quickly and lying on top of a cristal clear, amberish orange beer with tiny dots of dead yeast floating around everywhere. Weird and all but inviting aroma of raw barbecue sausages (probably from proteins), cooked chicken, mouldy mushrooms, nutmeg, cigarette tobacco, green asparagus, dried orange peel, old apple cake, caramel candy. Sugary onset, marmelade and even a lightly lemonade-like sensation, soft (even almost flat) carbo, citrus peel accent but very artificial, smooth caramelly backbone, no recognizable lambic complexity, nor any bitterness of any significance; thin mouthfeel. The weird umami-like meat and mushroom aromas return retronasally and the sugar sticks a bit in the throat, but fortunately not in an exaggerated way; caramel malt sweetness lingers as well. Artificial citrus effect has more to do with ascorbic acid than anything else, I suspect. A ’true’ faro is unfortunately a rare phenomenon these days - whereas it was the most consumed beer style in 19th-century Brussels - but these bottled ’lemonade’ interpretations, initiated by Lindemans, were never a good idea and will not help beer afficionados from abroad to appreciate the style. If you want authentic faro, go to Cantillon’s museum and ask for one. Avoid this kind of artificial sugary crap. This bottle was too old in the first place and probably hasn’t been kept in the best of circumstances, but I will not bother trying to find a fresh one, as it will have the same unpleasant sugary lemonade character and probably even more so than this old bottle. Unpleasant in more than one way - I hardly ever pour anything down the drain, but in this case, it did not take me a lot of time deciding its fate. My expectations of this were low to begin with, but this is actually a lot worse than expected.
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared with Sarkynorthener cheers Martin; clear amber pour with a thin off white head, aroma has sweet sugar some fruit, taste has a nicely balanced with sour, candied fruits, a hint of lemon.
TET (6603) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
A brown yellow colour, a head is almost medium and blond. Aroma is sweet, grapes and raisins, some apples. Taste has fruits, some raisins, strong sweetness, some sourness. Medium bodied, slightly sticky but also sparkling. Too sweet, otherwise OK.
huineman (1435) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5
Pours clear golden. Not much froth. Aroma is fresh fruit, such as cherry, strawberry, tangerine... Reminds of a Burgundy Pinot noir. Taste is fizzy, sweetish, very sour yeast. Medium body, medium finish. Very lambic.
laiti (11645) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
37,5 cl bottle @ home, BBE 11.03.2016
Aroma has earthy notes typical to gueuze and sugary sweetness. Flavour has grapefruit, brown sugar, some earthy tones and citrus. Also some homemade mead vibes. Faro is still not my thing, the sweetness does not fit in.
Jow (8309) reviewed Faro Lambicus from Timmermans 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home thanks to Kraddel, copper pour with sudsy head. Nose is apples and lots of sugar. Tastes of apples, musty, candied sugar, hint of sour. Very sweet not cloying though.