Faro
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Faro Regular|
Score
7.18
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Cantillon Faro is sugar sweetened lambic that is generally only available on cask around Brussels and at festivals. Cantillon Faro blends Jonge Lambic aged for about a year with caramelized sugar adding sweetness, slight roastiness, and color.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draught at brewery & moeder lambic. Muddy golden/amber with small bubbles on top. Sweet, dry leather aroma. Dusty sweet taste with notes of caramel, sugar & bread. Very nice Faro.
Tried
on 26 Dec 2008
at 09:48
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On draught. Dark amber color. Sweet and sour taste in a nice balance, with citrus overtones. 3.8 Second sample, on tap at Cantillon public brewing day 2010. Reddish brown color, coca cola head, same sweet/sour taste, more apple flavor. 3.9.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Nov 2008
at 17:39
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
From a jug at the brewery. Pours with no carbonation and no head. Dark orange coloured. Diacetyl aroma and malty/grainy, not pleasant. Butterish and malty flavoured. Ends flat and light sweet with a persisting butterish note. I was warned that this was for people that don’t really like gueuzes and lambics :) and questioned several times if I REALLY wanted this.
Tried
on 20 Oct 2008
at 03:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Chez Moeder Lambic, Brussels 1060, Belgium.Unclear medium amber color with a virtually none appearance, virtually none lancing, head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, wheat, brown sugar, candy sugar, barnyard. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. (250508)
Tried
from Can
on 10 Aug 2008
at 09:49
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a headless orange-amber color. Aroma is burnt sugar cane sweetness. Not much there to separate this from other common faros. Taste reduces that nasty sweetness. Its still there but the base beer is felt in a slight wild/barnyard flavor breaking through the muck creating a nice drinkable sweet mild lambic. The flavor really grew on me as I kept at it and it became more drying as I kept drinking. By the end a good amount of tartness began to be felt at the end of the flavor. By this point this was the best faro I had had.
Cask @ Cantillon Brewery, poured out of a faro ceramic jug, on 5/17/08.
Cask @ Cantillon Brewery, poured out of a faro ceramic jug, on 5/17/08.
Tried
from Can
on 26 May 2008
at 14:43
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Poured from jug at the brewery on 2008-03-22) Orange colour. Hazy. Sweet nose. Sugary taste lacking almost completly the normal lambic sourness. But some sourness remains. Good.
Tried
on 11 May 2008
at 02:38
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Re-rate 9/7/09: Tap sample at the brewery in Brussels. Deep reddish brown color. Aroma of brown sugar, some demerara is in there as well, and some funky, slightly vinegar-like, acidity. Sweet sugary flavor (candy-like) with a very faded sourness and a bit of barnyard tones. Finishes a bit drier. Medium-bodied. Too restrained but decent. 7/4/6/3/14=3.4
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2008
at 09:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
(At the brewery) On March 22, 2008. Slight shady golden color, small white head. A bit wood, floral, acidic smooth scent. Sweet, citrus, acidic taste. A bit lactic and metallic aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2008
at 04:48
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
colore d’orato carico note dolciastre zuccero candi in bocca leggermente dolciastro ma anche una buona acidità
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2008
at 07:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Slightly hazy - mostly clear ruby tinted amber coloured body. Aroma of sour grapes, yeast, wheat and vinegar - great! Light-bodied; Nice sweet and sour flavour up front of grapes and yeast with malt following soon behind. Aftertaste shows great character - pretty sweet, sour, hoppy and even a bit spicey. Overall, great - where has this beer been in the US? I sampled this poured from a small jug at Chez Moeder Lambic in Bruxelles, Belgium on 28-December-2007.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2008
at 01:03