Bottle @Luppolo Station (Rome-Italy), thank you Fabio. Misty dark copper pour, medium beige foam. Nose: spirit, sour, wine. Mouth: a bit empty, boring tartness. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Botella de 50 cl de el lúpulo tomada el 31-12-2014. Botella numero 97 de 1100 lote 141 embotellado en noviembre 2011 para antes de 11-2015 (r9) color cobrizo oscuro con espuma beige persistente. Aromas y sabores frescos de vinos blancos y cavas con toques de maderas y maltas tostadas. Cuerpo medio de 5.1 fácil de beber tipo vino. Buena y una sorpresa.

Brown colour with a light tan head with good lasting and nice lacework. Aroma has notes of wood, some red fruits, some caramel and red wine. Flavor is sourish, wooden notes, wet clothes. Sour final with a good duration dominated by red fruits and red wine.

Tap at Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas as part of my Pre-Wedding Celebrations. It pours very dark red, with a thick, bubbly beige head. The nose is red wine, vinegar, tangy fruit, caramel, liquorice and seed. The taste is wood, molasses, caramel, charcoal, tangy dark fruit - prune, plum, currant, cherry and fruit cake, with a dry finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Decent ale, but not as sour as hoped!

Tap at Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Light sour nose with a bit of wood. Light to medium sweet, certainly woody, mild fruits, dirt and grass. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Pretty dry to finish, some lightly burnt wood, mild sugars, light tang. Pretty good.

25 cl. draft @ Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas: dark mahogany almost going to black with a serious foaming (like dishwashing liquid in water) head, smell is touch wet clothes, rainwater mixed with some tart brown sugar sweetness, touch dark fruits & sweet tart malts, taste carries definitely elements of a sour ale but it is more sweet than sour despite the mustiness & tartness making me think of a faro more than anything else, a mixed beer according to the bartender, tart upfront, slightly musty mixed with tart cough syrup, sweet malt, brown fruits, sweet musty cellar, autumn leaves, brown sugar & lambic, despite the sweetness this is very much lambic-direction and not a sweetened one, body is slightly oily lambic, this is very odd, not really successful but I kind of got into it, very quaffable even if every sip makes you kind of go, wait what was that?

Draft @ Moeder Lambic, Fontainas. This is a beer with a lot of potential that sadly falls a little short of conquering my palate. That being said, it is impressive to see nice artisanal breweries coming out of Spain(...Catalonia I should say). Maybe that beer would have been better served hand pumped rather than regular tap. Couleur brune foncée/trouble, col présente qcq bulles blanches tel que l’on retrouve sur une bière versée à la pompe à main. Arôme est aigre mais léger, présente une fine pointe boisée et un malt grillé en retrait avec un côté fruité noir très subtile. En bouche, l’aigreur de l’arôme apparait comme quasi invisible et cela est dommage pour une bière qui à la base est très bien exécutée et se veut être du style ’sour’. La carbonation reste minimale n’aidant pas vraiment à propulser le tout vers une explosion de saveurs. Note néanmoins un malt caramel et grillé et une pointe faiblarde de chocolat. Le profile aigre disparait trop vite et on retrouve une bière un peu vide mais qui avec plus d’aigreur pourrait vraiment y gagner.