Zjiem Bezen Framboise Lambic
(has 1 batch)

Bottle 375ml. corked @ [ Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏡🇩🇰

[ As De Cam Zjiem Bezen Framboise Lambic ].
ABV: 5.5%. Clear medium red colour with virtually no head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, manure, barnyard, leather, raspberry, currant - berries. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, currant, berries, manure, barnyard, raspberry, dry, balanced, red currant. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20210802]
8-4-8-4-17

Vaarikane, hapu, mahlane, tanniinine, happeline, punanesõstar, hea mahl. 4.1

16/V/21 - 37.5cl bottle, shared @ De Cam brewery, BB: L2030.8 (2021-411) Thanks to Erwin & Meeki for sharing today’s beers!

Clear deep ruby red to bright cherry red beer, small creamy light pink head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: fruity, sugary impression, cherry touch, raspberry jam, sour notes, funky. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: bit meaty, pretty acidic, berries, very dry, red currants, bit metallic, dry, some raspberry jam. Aftertaste: acidic, dry, bit juicy, very nice red currants, lovely stuff!

C: Almost no head, B.C.”H.”; totally veiled, deep cardinal-red beer.
N: “Putteke” , (red) fruity esters galore, sulphur, horsemanure.
T: Sour, sulphury, red fruit, horseblanket. Something of ether, at the same time perfumey – no doubt the raspberries. Fruitacids.
MF: Acidthinning, acidburn, lipsmacking acidity, refreshing, light.
O: Very good one! The sulphur is rather imposing.

Together with a cherry plum lambic, De Cam recently released this other new fruit lambic variation as well, containing redcurrants ('zjiembezen' in local dialect - very local as I never heard it myself so far, we just call it 'troskesbezen' where I come from) and raspberries. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork, bottled last year, best before 2030 according to the label. Medium thick, quite dense and regular, shred-lacing, pinkish pale lilac head, slowly breaking here and there and eventually dissipating over a hazed, stunningly beautiful glowing ruby red robe with scarlet tinge. Brightly fruity and funky roma of indeed soapy and sour redcurrant, sweet red raspberry following close behind, green raspberry bush leaves, lime juice, sour cream, redcurrant jam without the sugar, old rosé wine, wet oak wood, Bretty 'urine', touch blood orange, hints of chlorine, freshly fermented farmland especially when adding a bit of sediment, rotting beetroot but not in an offensive way, withering roses, minerals. Crisp onset, packed with red berries, lots of redcurrant sourness and far less powerful raspberry sweetness but still a clear raspberry flavour nonetheless, deeper lambic-y side notes of unripe plum and old lemons, softish fizz - actually non expected, but I guess the sugars from the fruit caused a refermentation effect, which feels very pleasant (and quite different from the flat 'plum juice' feeling in the Mirabel, if I have to compare), supple body; a minerally, bit soapy and acidic redcurrant effect lingers on the sides of the tongue, just like the actual redcurrants I plucked and ate in my grandmother's garden when I was a child. Supple, slightly vinous mouthfeel, a wheaty and bready grainy core completely soaked in redcurrant juice, somewhat less strong raspberry and a strong lactic sourness, going from bright red berry fruitiness to increasing funkiness in the end, where the 'wild' effects of the lambic become more apparent: farmland, urine, garden weed leaves - and woody tannins, greatly enhanced by tannins from the fruit skins and seeds, with eventually an astringent effect, though not to the extent that it becomes obnoxious, as the sheer juiciness of all that crisp fruit remains intact till the last drop. Green fruit bush leaves and a very deep and mostly 'silent' old hop bitter touch accompany the finishing stage, but the last impression for me really is a long-lasting, astringent yet juicy, crisp, bright 'vermillion' redcurrant flavour, as in eating actual redcurrants. The 'zjiembezen' steal the show here, actually in a more convincing and realistic way than in that infamous Trosbessen lambic De Cam released four years ago, in spite of raspberries also being present here - and playing the second violin with grace and noblesse. Bright, radiant fruit lambic, making me feel like I just swallowed a whole bunch of vitamins and other healthy stuff - this is what traditional fruit lambic should be. I liked this one much better than the Mirabel, which has no effervescence, far less 'fraîcheur' and far less funky and complex lambic character than this one. Nothing better to start the weekend with than a traditionally designed, summery, radiant fruit lambic, cheers to De Cam! --- Beer merged from original tick of De Cam Zjiem Bezen Framboise Lambic on 12 Mar 2021 at 21:55 - Score: Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Together with a cherry plum lambic, De Cam recently released this other new fruit lambic variation as well, containing redcurrants ('zjiembezen' in local dialect - very local as I never heard it myself so far) and raspberries. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork, bottled last year, best before 2030 according to the label. Medium thick, quite dense and regular, shred-lacing, pinkish pale lilac head, slowly breaking here and there and eventually dissipating over a hazed, stunningly beautiful glowing ruby red robe with scarlet tinge. Brightly fruity and funky roma of indeed soapy and sour redcurrant, sweet red raspberry following close behind, green raspberry bush leaves, lime juice, sour cream, redcurrant jam without the sugar, old rosé wine, wet oak wood, Bretty 'urine', touch blood orange, hints of chlorine, freshly fermented farmland especially when adding a bit of sediment, rotting beetroot but not in an offensive way, withering roses, minerals. Crisp onset, packed with red berries, lots of redcurrant sourness and far less powerful raspberry sweetness but still a clear raspberry flavour nonetheless, deeper lambic-y side notes of unripe plum and old lemons, softish fizz - actually non expected, but I guess the sugars from the fruit caused a refermentation effect, which feels very pleasant (and quite different from the flat 'plum juice' feeling in the Mirabel, if I have to compare), supple body; a minerally, bit soapy and acidic redcurrant effect lingers on the sides of the tongue, just like the actual redcurrants I plucked and ate in my grandmother's garden when I was a child. Supple, slightly vinous mouthfeel, a wheaty and bready grainy core completely soaked in redcurrant juice, somewhat less strong raspberry and a strong lactic sourness, going from bright red berry fruitiness to increasing funkiness in the end, where the 'wild' effects of the lambic become more apparent: farmland, urine, garden weed leaves - and woody tannins, greatly enhanced by tannins from the fruit skins and seeds, with eventually an astringent effect, though not to the extent that it becomes obnoxious, as the sheer juiciness of all that crisp fruit remains intact till the last drop. Green fruit bush leaves and a very deep and mostly 'silent' old hop bitter touch accompany the finishing stage, but the last impression for me really is a long-lasting, astringent yet juicy, crisp, bright 'vermillion' redcurrant flavour, as in eating actual redcurrants. The 'zjiembezen' steal the show here, actually in a more convincing and realistic way than in that infamous Trosbessen lambic De Cam released four years ago, in spite of raspberries also being present here - and playing the second violin with grace and noblesse. Bright, radiant fruit lambic, making me feel like I just swallowed a whole bunch of vitamins and other healthy stuff - this is what traditional fruit lambic should be. I liked this one much better than the Mirabel, which has no effervescence, far less 'fraîcheur' and far less funky and complex lambic character than this one. Nothing better to start the weekend with than a traditionally designed, summery, radiant fruit lambic, cheers to De Cam!