Crianza (Lambic)
Brasserie de la Senne in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Sour / Wild Beer Special Out of Production|
Score
7.40
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Zinnebir aged in oak casks for 9 months with the addition of lambic.
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9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Wow, simply wow.
Pours beautiful with a large, foamy, head. As it slowly fades a sticky and strong lacing is left on the glass. And it never fully fades, left id a cm thick surface covering foam. Basically, there are soap suds in this beer. The color is hazy and thick but not muddy or murky. One cannot see through it but it has a sunshine irradiating hue. Looks like the sun is shining straight through the beer. Just beautiful, especially with the lightly visible carbonation. Aroma is lots of barnyard/cobweb lambic blended beautifully with perfume-like Belgian malts, which are very low key. The lambic part dominates. Further, lightly grassy and light leather, again perfectly melded. Taste is almost all kambic, spiky, cobweb filled leather and a nice long dryness. Throughout the flavor there is a light Belgian pale sweetness lovingly playing off the lambic flavors. Its not in your face with any one aspect. Nice light lemon zest in the back of the throat.
750mL from Beer Mania, no date, white wine glass, split 3 ways at home.
Pours beautiful with a large, foamy, head. As it slowly fades a sticky and strong lacing is left on the glass. And it never fully fades, left id a cm thick surface covering foam. Basically, there are soap suds in this beer. The color is hazy and thick but not muddy or murky. One cannot see through it but it has a sunshine irradiating hue. Looks like the sun is shining straight through the beer. Just beautiful, especially with the lightly visible carbonation. Aroma is lots of barnyard/cobweb lambic blended beautifully with perfume-like Belgian malts, which are very low key. The lambic part dominates. Further, lightly grassy and light leather, again perfectly melded. Taste is almost all kambic, spiky, cobweb filled leather and a nice long dryness. Throughout the flavor there is a light Belgian pale sweetness lovingly playing off the lambic flavors. Its not in your face with any one aspect. Nice light lemon zest in the back of the throat.
750mL from Beer Mania, no date, white wine glass, split 3 ways at home.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Jul 2008
at 22:07
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Hazy golden colour with small white head, which lasts for quite a bit. Leaves nice lace. Aroma is earthyness, mild notes of sour fruits, wood and yeast. Flavour is very much sour fruits, yeast and some wooden hints mixed in. A wellbalanced brew which does the "sweetish sour" thing very well. Refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2008
at 06:33
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle courtesy of Steph: Poured an hazy dirty beige color ale with a huge pure white foamy head with perfect retention and lacing, there probably was still foam in my glass 30 minutes after the pour. Aroma consists of a well balance mix between oak and tart with some green apple and some very light horse blanket. Taste is quite sour with load of oak and some tartness. The yeast from the original Belgian ale is still identifiable and provided an interesting complexity to the mix. Full body with limited filtration and some great carbonation. I have to admit that I was truly amazed by this beer and it definitely surpassed my expectation. It is too bad that I will probably never see a bottle of this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2008
at 10:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2007-11-02, Papsoe Blind Tasting, corked bottle
Cloudy blond color, the head is eggwhite-like. Nice sour aroma, with cellar smell and citrus fruits, also light plastic. Medium-thin body, with a balanced mix of light malt flavor, prominent acidity, light fruitness (lemon peel, bitter grapefruit). Good, but without vibes.
Cloudy blond color, the head is eggwhite-like. Nice sour aroma, with cellar smell and citrus fruits, also light plastic. Medium-thin body, with a balanced mix of light malt flavor, prominent acidity, light fruitness (lemon peel, bitter grapefruit). Good, but without vibes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Dec 2007
at 17:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From bottle, blind tasting at Papsoes - beer no 2. Pours hazy yellow with a diminished white head. Brett acidic and citrus fruity aroma. Barnyard, citric. Goes into a slight leathered flavour. Ends quite dry and citric. Simple yet powerful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2007
at 07:14
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of fiulijn. Pours a hazy, pale golden with a tall and bubbly, white head. Lightly tart Brettish nose with a citrusy touch. Medium body with a very lively carbonation. Somewhat astringent Brett accents and some hints of citrus. The bitterness is very subdued. Quite interesting and refreshing. 021107
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2007
at 10:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. An unclear muddy amber beer with a lazing orange head. The aroma is acidic combined with sweetness with light notes of brettanomyces and citrus. The flavor is acidic with strong notes of citrus as well as light notes of barnyard and wood, leading to a dry citrusy finish. Thank Alex (fiulijn).
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Nov 2007
at 11:19
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at LCRBM3. Good farmyard character, nice beer, soft, lemon and some other citrus fruits. That was a nice beer. Good acidity with good farmyard notes and character. Excellent way to finish off the LCRBM.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2007
at 07:10
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught Right pineapple colour, head gone in seconds. Dry, lambicky nose, grapelambic and wood. Tannins in the taste, dry white wine, grape kernels, and retronasal definitely white wine. Lambic is dominant. Dry, and in some way, alcoholic in palate. Lambic overwhelms it - as if it were 3/4 lambic and 1/4 beer. ’t Is great, but it’s 100% different from the original Crianza, as served at ZBF ’06.
Tried
on 12 Sep 2006
at 10:19