Rivertown Brewing Company Lambic

Lambic

 

Rivertown Brewing Company in Monroe, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Unblended Regular
Score
7.10
ABV: 6.2% IBU: 8 Ticks: 55
Beer is typically fermented in a very calculated, controlled manner with pure strains of brewers’ yeast. Our award winning lambic beer is instead fermented by exposing it to the untamed yeasts and bacteria that are native to our Brewery. We affectionately call this unrestrained, wild amalgamation our House Funk. This blend is unique to Rivertown and this unusual, spontaneous process, involving over a year of fermentation in oak wine barrels, is what gives this beer its distinctive flavor; dry, funky, vinous, and cidery, with a crisp, sour aftertaste that will continue to develop in the bottle for years to come.
 

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4.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle. Ok, first time trying this style and tried to be fair but just don’t care for it. Aroma was extremely funky. Taste like cider vinegar, mixed with malt and hops, sour. Cloudy with bits of stuff floating in it.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:09


5.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours darker blonde, small white head. Smell is sweaty, bit sweet, almost reminding of sugar. Cheesy. Taste is tart, dry, funky. Mild oak. Sweaty. No.... This ain't what lambic is...

Tried on 02 Oct 2019 at 15:15


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

22oz bottle pours out pale straw topped with a white head. Nose is nice light funk barrel oak and bugs. Tatse is more of the nice funk sour tart notes and some oak. Very nice

Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2018 at 06:47


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to jsquire: Poured a hazy yellow with a white. Aroma very funky. Taste is tart and funky. Very surprisingly good since I wouldn’t have know about them if it wasn’t for Jeff.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2016 at 23:52


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle (2011 vintage drank in 2015): Poured a hue golden yellow color lambic with small bubbly head with limited retention. Aroma of light green apple notes with some tart notes and light vinous undertones. Taste is also dominated by tart green apple notes with some vinous notes, light oak and light funky ester with a thin finish. Body is thinner then I was expecting with OK carbonation. Not bad but doesn’t have the depth of the top Belgian lambic producer.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2016 at 15:23


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Nice lambic bretta with citrus and some cracker. Hazy, tangy, good balance overall. Bottle shared at a tasting a while back.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Nov 2015 at 11:08


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

From a bottle at the RB DC tasting September 6. Pours a hazy gold with an off white head. Bandaid aroma. Flavors of fermented alfalfa.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Sep 2015 at 16:08


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Golden colour, white head. Sour aroma, diacetyl, butter, lemon rinds. Sour flavour, butter candy (those old fashioned Dutch ’yellow butter waffles’), fudge, funky notes. Finish butter candy, citrus, lemon zest. Not very complex, and a bit heavy on butter for my liking, but decent and with some balance. Not bad at all.
(from 75cl bottle @ Let’s drink all of Rich’s American beers Tasting. Thanks for sharing, omgrich!)

Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2015 at 01:20


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

At Rich’s Massive Cellar Emptying Tasting. Lambic 2013 a cloudy gold with a tart, bready and mild. The taste is oak, spice, soft bodied. An ok beer but very mild for anything calling itself a lambic.

Tried on 24 Aug 2015 at 09:08


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ Drink Rich’s American beer, thanks to Omgrich. Anno 2013. Dorée, léger trouble, col blanc se dissipant rapidement. Arôme au bouquet rappelant un cidre de pomme, le tout sur un funk modéré et pointe de malt. Palais est sec, léger fruité, pointe de funk avec un léger fruité, le tout gardant cette impression de cidre sec. Je peine à y trouver le lien avec un lambic. Reste assez monodimensionnelle.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Aug 2015 at 14:19