Blåbær Lambik (Blueberry Lambic) (2015)
(Batch of Blåbær Lambik)
Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.62
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Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
2015 750mL bottle drunk 9/20/17.
A beautiful robe of violet-magenta shows good clarity in the light, leaving the plentiful sediment behind. Pink-tinged white head shows modest retention for the style, eventually fading to ring.
The nose is just filled with beautifully expressive fruit, side-by-side with tart bacteria/yeast creating wonderful layers of complexity. Sniffable to perpetuity, it's both tart, juicy, tannic and even somewhat vinous, yet never "sweet" or "sugary". Nor is it too sour, achieving a good mix of both fruit and bacteria acid while lively Brett adds band aid, light lime and other soft funk and mineral. No alcohol or flaw. Very high strength of aroma.
Similar fruit flavors abound, tickling the tongue as plentiful Brett and lacto add a lightly puckering character and both fruit and barrel tannin soften the blow (though it's never terribly sour), mostly just very tart. The fruit is well-integrated again and the carbonation quite engaging, but it's markedly thin, seemingly over-attenuated and phenomenally bone dry, to the point of fault. It's pretty rare that under-malting and/or thin, washed out texture is a thing I get from Cantillon (or 3F for that matter) so this was even more disappointing. Just didn't have enough malt depth/suppleness. Obviously I'm not expecting it to be sweet, thick and richly malty, but it was noticeably less than the standard and caused a lot of astringency to build up on the finish. Assuming this is just a bottle or batch variation and still enthused to drink more Blabaer.
Tried this in connection with the release. Don't know why I've missed the checkin
Surprisingly astringent. Still very tasty!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
0,375l bottle at Himmeriget shared by me. Vintage 2015. bourdeaux like color, small pink head. smells cheesy, blueberries, grassy, funk, berry notes, green apples. very nice smell. Medium Body, light carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of grass, funk, some berry notes, green apples, spices, peppery. finishes medium sour with notes of funk, grass and peppery notes. very nice one, could use a bit more fruit notes, but overall very nice stuff.