Faro

Imported from my RateBeer account as Girardin Faro (by Brouwerij Girardin):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

25/VIII/2012 37.5cl bottle from Dranken Geers (Oostakker) @ my parents in law's place - BB: 2031 (2012-964)

Clear amber to copper red beer, big aery off-white head, pretty stable, little adhesive. Aroma: cheesy, lemon, some vinegar, bretta, bit picy, stinky feet. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, lemony, bit sour, lambic. Aftertaste: caramel, sugary, bretta, lemony, little bitter.

Bottle (bought at Ølbutikken in 2010) Slightly hazy copper with a small head. Soft aroma with yeast, sugar, fruit and with a light sourness. The sweet taste was a bit more sour but nothing extreme. Some vinegar, citrus and notes och spices. Descent stuff.

Bottle. Sweet/tart fruity, musty yeasty aroma. Amber with a small white head. Mildly sweet/tart fruit, musty flavor with a light spiciness in the finish. Light carbonated body, smooth dry finish.

Bouteille 375ml, courtoisie de SlovakSniper. De couleur cuivrée-orange foncée et claire. Nez de levures fruitées aux petites notes sûres (léger de citron, traces de canneberges, de cerises sûres et de pommes vertes), légèrement boisé (bois humide) et floral avec des notes de beurre et de pain sucré. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement bas-moyen et une texture aux notes huileuses / sirupeuses. Goût fruité sucré, légèrement acide et aux faibles notes sûres (notes de cerises sûres et de pommes, traces de citron) accompagné d’un léger goût de bois humide lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute rapidement un léger goût de pain mouillé avec des notes de sirop de fruits et quelques traces de beurre puis en finale l’on retrouve un léger goût herbeux (herbes mouillées) avec quelques notes florales. Post-goût moyen et aux notes sèches, très faiblement aigres de fruits (moût de petits fruits).

375mL caged and corked dark green bottle pours metallic looking copper brown with tiny off white head. The aroma offers up some odd notes like cherry covered buttered German rye bread, dank wood notes, some dank woody basement grainy malts and the odd berry fruit or two floating over the top. The flavor delivers rings of berry and near cherry like fruitiness with modest tartness and basement woody dankness at the middle. It stays that way and then lingers into the finish with a decent amount of berry notes, tartness, odd yeasty notes and a touch of dryness.

A good balance between sourness and sweetness. But there is a strange metalic taste in this faro.

37,5 cl. bottle into a flute. Clear reddish amber colour with a big and fluffy head of beige foam. The aroma shows notes of musty, fermenting figs and other dark fruits, caramel sweetness and mildly funky, oak tartness. Taste is sweet and tart, caramelized figs and fruits complimented by notes of apple cider and something earthy. Light to medium bodied with a thin texture. Lively carbonated. This is my first faro, and I did not have high hopes, this one however turned out nicely.

08/06/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (handpump). Ambrata con pochissima schiuma, quasi del tutto assente. Al naso un indecifrabile aroma di lieviti selvatici, con sentori di stalla e formaggio, e zucchero di canna. In bocca è un minestrone ancor meno decifrabile, eccessivamente zuccheroso per i miei gusti, l’acido non emerge. Corpo medio, carbonazione soft. Mettiamola così, non sono un fan di questo genere di birra.