7.5

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

37.5cl from Cafe Rose Red. It pours clear orange with limited head. The aroma is bright, zingy, tangy, misty, orange peel, blood orange, marmalade sandwiches, orange wine, leather, sherbet and sour candy. The taste is crispy, dry, snappy, bright and bracing acidity, tart, tangy, vinous, orange sherbet, candied citrus peel, blood orange, apricot, musty, funk, damp oak, orange wine and some barnyard with a tangy, acidic orange finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Novel, but the citrus brings big acidity. You can feel the depe funk from the old lambic also. Interesting, but challenging.

7.2

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

Bottle, 750 ml shared at Tap Tap Perdizes. Cloudy orange with small white head. Some citrus notes, some oranges, quite undeveloped and missing funk, medium sourness, somewhat acidic. Expected more.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Intensely sour and funky with loads of blood orange tartness, lime, orange peel and citrus, some farmyard and yeastiness. Quite intense.

7

Sour, tart, acidic. Soapy lemon and lime, not much orange. A bit harsh and stomach-a idly but the flavor isn't bad. Side note, a megablend with the doot lambigu orange is delish.

7.6

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

Pours clear, darker yellow. Foam fades instantly. Scent is lambic funk, with a Blood Orange whiff, but certainly not very powerfull on the fruits. Taste is very tart, dry, woody and funky. Clear and sharp acidity. BO provides an assertive support. Medium body, medium carbo. Decent, balanced and pronounced.

7.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Color: Clear pale orangish golden, fast disappearing thin white head. Aroma: Tart, fruity orange, citrus. Rural funky hints. Taste: Over medium tart, blood orange, unripe plum, lemon notes. Oak wood. Acidic, vinegar. Subtle rural and light leathery funk. Dry-ish finish. Medium body, below average carbonation. Nice, although on the acidic side for me.

7.5

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

White head, gone in seconds, over finely carbonated, veiled orange beer. Citrus, dominating the lactic acid. Faint farmyard odours, fresh harvest, lemon, hay. Quite sour, lactic acid, fruitacids. A certain herb, buckwheat, elderflower, lavender. Lipsmacking acidity, acidthinning and -burn. Certain stickyness, film on the mucoses. Sharp blend, the fruitaromas & -flavours are as smothered by the rather aggressive acids.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

The blended 'geuze' version of a blood orange lambic made by Publitasting, the lambic blending operation of Geert Demuynck in Anzegem, making use of lambics of six (!) different ages - so not a true geuze in the strict sense of the word (i.e. according to the Belgian legal definitions) even apart from the fact that it contains fruit and therefore cannot be a real geuze for that reason either - but I get the idea. Lots of proteins and other floating particles in the bottle (like in several other Publitasting bottlings). Regular, egg-white, audibly fizzing head, fizzing away in instants like the foam on a glass of freshly poured coke, leaving as good as nothing behind; hazy peach blonde robe with pale orange glow and, as said, residue near the bottom of the glass. Aroma of bitter orange more than juicy sweet blood orange but in any case very citric, orange peel, unripe mandarin, wet old wood, lemon, bitter garden weeds (De Troch piercing through, as usual), kefir, milk, haystacks in September, crabapples, calamansi citrus vinegar, unripe nectarine, redcurrants, dry farmland, old jute bags, dusty attic, cracked leather, petrichor, oxidized dry white wine. Crisp onset, notably lemony, puckering even, with the added blood orange strongly accentuating the lambic's natural acids to an almost vinegary degree; again, more sour or bitter orange than the sweet-juicy blood orange effect I was hoping for, surrounded by unripe stonefruit, wild apples and sour berries. Prickling carbonation, minerally, full mouthfeel; bready core, carrying a load of sourness, lactic, lemon-like and in the end clearly citric and coming from the fruit; woody tannins add further dryness and an extra layer of flavour is achieved by a leathery, hayloft-like and earthy Brett funkiness. Mild but important bitterness in the end, from the citrus fruit and from old hops; the old lambics in here also provide something sherry vinegar-like, but it remains very much in the background, I am guessing the younger vintages make up the lion's share of this blend. Very 'neig' (sharply acidic), in all, which is perhaps not surprising considering the load of extra acids added by the citrus fruit; not one for stomach ulcer patients, clearly, it gave me a heartburn which lasted for a while, but if you can take a good amount of sourness in a lambic, then this is certainly worth a try. Still, the unpleasant looking residue, the lack of head retention and the predominance of harsh acidity are things which could be up for improvement; not the most refined lambic blend I had, not even within Publitasting's range, but definitely an interesting one, with - thanks to the old lambics in the blend - a lot of funky and rustic elements to it to keep it interesting.