Musty horse blanket, earthy gentian, berry, malt, and hay aroma. Cloudy ruby red with small pink head. Dry earthy beet/berry, moderately sour vinegar and Brett, and moderately bitter hay and gentian flavor. Good body - black pepper finish that gets stronger as it warms.

Definitely strong earthy beetroot upfront but mellows out after a bit and just fruit is left. Better than expected but totally understood!

Very interesting. Super earthy, tart, soft, clean

Tons of beetroot on the nose, reminds me of borscht/beetroot kvass. Earthy, lovely, funky tart

This year's Zwanze beer is a truly special one: a beetroot lambic, the very first ever to my knowledge. Served in several pubs in Europe but this time not in other parts of the world apparently, due to the Covid-19 pandemic - bad luck for them I guess, but I'm sure part of it will be bottled and will reappear at Zwanze or other events in future years, like the previous ones. From tap at Rose Red in Bruges. Thick and mousy, dense, deeply fuchsia-pink head on a lightly hazy, beautifully and uniquely carmine red beer with deeper ruby tinge, almost grenadine-like, a truly beautiful sight to behold. Aroma of indeed glazed beetroot and sweet beetroot juice (very strongly so - but with more emphasis on the sweetness of it than the earthiness), blueberry juice, dry clay, lemon zest, earth and even a vague manure hint when warming up, fresh fish gut, raw radish, white yoghurt. Very crisp onset, notably fruity with aspects more reminiscent of redcurrant and red raspberry than actual beetroot, lemony-sour edge, fizzy carbonation, minerally; supple, smooth body, ongoing crisp sourness and 'red' fruitiness from the beetroot, which becomes ever more dominant and eventually brings that expected earthy note - but in a very clean, non-'dirty' way, deepening the flavour. Woody tannins and ongoing lactic sourness provide dryness that is balanced out perfectly against the inherent sweetness of the beetroot, the unexpectedly strong fruitiness of which keeps shining till deep into the finish. Crisp, sleek, elegant lambic, truly one of a kind, remarkably clean and stylized - a very pleasant one, though not the most complex Cantillon of the day; I do wonder how this will evolve in coming years, ageing this can only lead to things never seen before in lambic. Very memorable, if not necessarily my personal preference.