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

Bottle at Malmö Crew Christmas tasting at Palace Hall (17/12/2022) - tart fruity apricot prominence, apricot skin, medium body and acidity, tart fruity close. Nice.

Lively one, slight gusher, looks murky, thin, watery, no carbo in the glass, gentle sourness, with a slightly sharp finish, light texture, lacks depth

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

Bottle directly from brewery webshop. A lot of foam keeps coming out of the bottle. Color: Hazy dark orange, dark orange head. Apricot particles. Aroma: Apricot, funky hints. Taste: Tart and bit sweet apricot, apricot skin, subtle funky and some oak wood. Moderate tart and light to sweet. Medium body, below average carbonation. Very fruit forward, even going towards apricot juice. There definitely are a lot better apricot Lambics / apricot Wild Ales on the market right now. Will try again in a couple of years, but I'm not impressed now.

Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

One of several new lambics launched in a frontal attack on the contemporary lambic market by the Kestemont family, operating in the site where, decades ago, the Goossens lambic brewery used to be located - talk about coming onto the scene with a mission to impress... Belated gusher, but I saw it coming a second after removing the cork so I managed to pour this beer without any loss. Audibly crackling, egg-white, densely moussy, busily 'dot-lacing', stable head slowly 'curdling' into bits (like curdled milk) and eventually dissolving altogether, over a weirdly cloudy ochre-blonde beer with beige hue - almost opaque in its murkiness, something I do not recall ever having seen in a lambic and frankly not very appealing to the eye. Weird and not too convincingly 'lambic-y' aroma of sweetish apricots indeed - even dried ones - but not as strong as expected, fermenting pear juice, homemade apple vinegar, overripe medlar, mud, spoiled brown bread dough, wet wood, green tree leaves, cobwebbed cellar, very old newspapers and - excusez le mot - a vague hint at baby puke. Fruity onset, relatively low in effervescence, apricot pulp and dried apricots dominating with side notes of oxidized apple, fermenting pear and medlar, tartly edged but not sharply acidic - in fact lacking in the volatile acids that normally happen in lambic, feeling a bit like some homemade vinegar with sweet fruit added to it, yet without the vinegar sting, if you get my drift; fluffy body, yoghurty lactic tartness and sharper apricot acidity continuing, bread-pulp-like core, side notes of bitter weeds and tree leaves as well as a sweeter medlar-like aspect. Astringent apricot kernel and wood tannins in the finish, ending dry but still with apricot juiciness remaining; all the way, this beer feels very yeasty, fruit-pulpy and a little bit dirty, with a ripe fruit sweetness weirdly lingering in the throat, alongside a very simple, one-sided kind of tartness and astringent tannic effects. Looks very unpleasant, I may have got the bottom of the barrel in my bottle here but still something must have gone wrong here, in any case, because the flavours too are unbalanced and unfinished, though not necessarily unpleasant. Feels more like fermented apricot juice with some or other sour agent (fruit vinegar or something) added... The Kestemont Oude Kriek I had last week was very solid, this one on the other hand is failed to some extent and clearly needs a whole lot of work to even come close to the great apricot lambics of the Senne Valley (like of course the granddaddy of them all, Cantillon's famed Fou'Foune, or even De Cam's radiant Abrikoos Lambic). Well, I guess fruit lambics are not an easy style family to bring to perfection and I am sure these Kestemonts are passionate enough and eager to learn, so I see no reason not to give them another chance in one of their other creations. For this one, however, I am afraid I will have to pass, at least for now...