Lambic Magerat
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Unblended Regular|
Score
7.05
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jtclockwork (20061) reviewed Lambic Magerat from Brasserie du Brabant 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - pours cloudy yellow - nose and taste of oak, dusty floor, light vinegar, lemon - medium body
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Lambic Magerat from Brasserie du Brabant 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The commercial, 'official' embodiment of Fred Magerat's experiments with spontaneous fermentation, nothing more than the Brabambic brewed already in 2015, but bottled, in 75 cl bottles with cork. Since young and old lambic by the 'real' lambic brewers are separate entries here and this is bottled and three years old unlike the ratings here under Brabambic, I made a separate entry for it, but it remains of course the same brew, so I leave it up to the admins to decide whether this is justifiable or not. Thin and loose, unstable ring of egg-white bubbles, eventually disappearing, on a misty straw blonde beer with warmer peachy tinge. Definitely very idiosyncratic, but complex and attractive aroma of cheese rind and even melting abbey cheese, old synthetic doormats and dry bath sponge, moldy lemons, sour grape juice, lots of vanilla-scenting oak wood, yoghurt, very old oxidized white wine, young sweet sherry, dried grapefruit peel. Softly tart onset with a sweetish core, very grapey even with notes of melon and ripe purple gooseberry, evidently soft carb (compare with Cantillon's Bruocsella), smooth and notably vinous mouthfeel, dryish and softly yoghurty lactic but nowhere sharply sour, with a soft, supple wheaty backbone; mellowly woody finish with a very outspoken vanilla-like highlight retronasally - more vanilla-ish than I have ever tasted from a beer not containing any vanilla at all. Ends with juicy grape- and gooseberry-like fruitiness, as well as orange peel and melon accents in an elusive, but highly fascinating way. I have praised Brabambic at a younger age as one of the most unique beers I've seen being made in Belgium for a long time; the same goes for this bottled, three year old version, though at the same time it has clearly evolved further now and has developed yet other little nuances and tastes. Highly remarkable sour ale, in this older bottled form even less lambic-like than the younger Brabambic, but all the more unique and different, to the extent that it becomes hard to describe. The brewer told me he plans to continue this unique and beguiling project - I for one am hugely looking forward to what else he will present us with if this 'base' is already so unique…