Live Blend GBF
Lambiek Brouwerij en Geuzestekerij 't Pomphuizeke in Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Regular|
Score
6.98
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Xmas bottleshare @ Gijs. Pours a dark golden to amber body. Aroma: sour, along with some wood retronasal. Flavour is very sour. Light bodied. Not (very) subtle.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
I had no idea this blend, created live at this year's Gents Bierfestival, was rateable at all, but considering Pomphuizeke is now finally going to the market soon and considering this beer will be bottled and sold, I guess it cannot do any harm to rate it - from memory, as I did not take any notes. No head whatsoever (indeed made from 'flat' draught beers), misty pale caramel brown robe with ruddy glow. Aroma immediately recognisable as a blend of oud bruin and lambic: passionfruit, sour grapes, old wood, dry old sherry, medlar, red plum, raspberry vinegar, stewed rhubarb, very dry red wine, wild apples. Tart onset, very lactic and very fruity, lots of sour grape, gooseberry, red plum and green apple effects with lemony edge but also a 'malse' quality keeping things supple and vinous; lambic is gradually pushed aside a bit by the oud bruin in the form of nutty and lightly caramelly maltiness piercing through lactic and fruity acidity, then returns in the end when a touch of De Troch's bitter plant-like quality as well as Lindemans' elegance come to the foreground, in a rustic woody context where all the acids nicely linger alongside each other. Long, vinous, complex finish - a very clever blend, John Versyck obviously knows what he is doing, and like I told him at the festival, this deserves to be bottled and cellared, I really wonder what can come out of that after a year or so. So here we are John, my first official rating of one of your blends - I hope many more will follow, good luck with the project!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draught /I No head, ochre-brown beer, veiled. Old oak, farmyard, horseblanket, shriveled lemons. Sweet-sour, hints at brown candisugar, pineapple, lemon, putty. Light body without carbonation. Nice blend.