Fou' Foune
(has 22 batches)
Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Spring|
Score
8.20
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The apricots are sourced from environmentally-friendly and sustainable agriculture. The proportion is 300 g of fruit blended with one litre of lambic, and the soaking time is very short. Specifically, it will only take around five weeks for the lambic to extract the fragrances and flavours of the fruit. It is worthwhile to note that Fou’Foune kicks off the bottling season around the end of August. Given its success, Fou’Foune has taken up third place among the fruit beers in terms of volume, behind the traditional kriek and Rosé de Gambrinus.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle courtesy of Diego shared at the Ryan’s tasting. Achie machie!!!!! Big barnyard and horse blanket nose. This is one sour/bitter beer. Super dry and crisp, it was so sour I could barley pick out any flavors, I guess apricot?
Update: ’05 vintage was suffering from autolysis and had a huge burnt rubber nose..
Update: ’05 vintage was suffering from autolysis and had a huge burnt rubber nose..
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2022
at 16:58
8.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Draught at Gourmet Haus Staudt in Redwood City as part of their Lambic Day during SF Beer Week - so nice to have the return of SF Beer Week. This is such a great, subtle Lambic. Pours minimally hazed and yellow with white cap. Slight citrus married with a bit of funk. Faint barnyard works so well. This was a delicate, beautiful beer and I am so happy I finally got to try it!
Tried
on 16 Feb 2022
at 05:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
sampled in the last days of 2021. Pours hazed amberblonde. Scent is farily full, mineral, lambic funk, mild fruits. Taste is full, high carbo. Full on acidity, milder fruits (still recognizable). Fairly sharp. Mild oak.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2022
at 16:31
9/10
Bottled 12 august 2021. And some unmixed as well. Just as great as I remember. Normally not an apricot fan, but like this? Hell yeah. Funky, sour and so amazingly juicy. Some wood in there, bit of strawyness, but mostly the apricot that shines through like a supernova.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2021
at 23:00
9.5/10
1/1/2022: As Foulini, with Cava, to toast to the new year. Cava makes it a bit dryer, more sparkling, slightly less juicy. Not a bad combination, but the Fou clearly still has the upper hand here, and that's probably a good thing.
2/1/2022: As Foumosa (with orange juice). Smell is mostly Fou: funky, apricot, some orange, not super sweet. Light, easy, refreshing. Taste is between both: some sweetness from the OJ, some funk from the Fou, more oranges than apricots but both present. Breakfasty.
2/1/2022: As Foumosa (with orange juice). Smell is mostly Fou: funky, apricot, some orange, not super sweet. Light, easy, refreshing. Taste is between both: some sweetness from the OJ, some funk from the Fou, more oranges than apricots but both present. Breakfasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2021
at 23:00