7.6

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

Bottle. Color: Hazy pinkish red, fast diminishing pink head. Aroma: Berries, blackberry, cherry, funky hints. Taste: Fruity mix of gooseberry, blackberry and cherries. Oak wood and subtle rural funk. Lightly oily mouthfeel. Wheat malt base. Just ovet medium body, below average carbonation. Moderate tartness. Quite nice, although feeling a bit young.

7.5

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

750mL bottle at the International Geuze & Kriek festival. Pours murky red with a pink head. Medley of musty berries and some funk on the nose. Flavour has a very nice medley of musty berries, good complexity, a bit of old wood. Nice.

7.6

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

750mL bottle at International Geuze & Kriek Festival 2025, pours a bright pinkish red with a small white head. Aroma is full of mixed berries, a touch of funk, and a light earthiness. Flavour is very fruity, with lots of mixed berries, moderate funk, and a touch of earthy leather. Nice fruity combo while preserving the funk. Very good.

7.6

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

Poured from a 375 ml bottle from Lot 20220729. Aroma is fruit forward with really nice cherry and berry notes, though it's a bit difficult to pick out the individual notes from each fruit. Hints of earthy funk, grain and alcohol. Pours a slightly hazy, purplish red color with a small, thin, white head that recedes quickly and disappears. No lacing and faint legs. Flavor is slightly acidic with a medium light sweetness and hints soft grain. Low bitterness and light alcohol notes. Fairly strong fruit notes with a nice balanced blend of cherry and berry. Hints of earthy funk. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with low to no carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a fine beer but it doesn't have much lambic character hiding under the fruit. Very fruit forward, but the lack of acidity is nice. Could have fermented out a bit more and added some funkiness.

7.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

One of the newer Kestemont lambics to date, and now that this lambic producer has entered the honourable HORAL council, I guess the time is right to celebrate with this multi-fruit lambic. Made with fruits cultivated by the family Kestemont themselves, namely sour cherries, blackberries, redcurrants, red gooseberries and green goodeberries, a specific combo the world probably never saw before (though there are, of course, very comparable constructions around, see e.g. Lambiek Fabriek's Pluri-Elle). Initially thick and frothy, audibly crackling, quickly breaking but edge-retaining, off-white head with 'dirty lilac' tinge, dissolving into nothing; hazy warm burgundy robe with purple tinge, cloudy to murky in the end. Aroma of lots of ripe (sour) cherry including almond from their pits, blackberry coulis, gooseberry wine, vanilla (quite pronounced - from oak wood and again cherry pits I presume), marzipan even, plum juice from a bottle, passionfruit, sweet sherry, redcurrant bush leaves but no recognisable redcurrant fruit, hazel-tree leaves, natural wine, soggy bread, blueberry crumble even though no blueberries went in, glazed beetroot, damp earth. Juicy onset, evidently a whole lot of fruit, fleshy sour cherries coming to the foreground quickly but ripe blackberries and red gooseberries following quickly at comparable force so that there is no pure 'oude kriek' experience here - rather a 'gathered forest fruit lambic' experience, I would say; again the astringency and sharpness of green gooseberry and redcurrant lags behind, engulfed in the sheer juiciness of the other, more fleshy and sweet fruits. Effervescence is relatively low for a fruit lambic, but there is a general vinosity to this product reminiscent of homemade fruit wine (and I mean other fruit than grapes in this case). Some underlying acidity does 'scratch' the enamel of the teeth, but the loads of fructose from the ripe red fruits covers a lot, including a soft undercurrent of lactic acid and a mellow 'bed' of bready malts. 'Green leaf' aspects pop up here and there, woodiness adds a tannic effect joining the tannins from all that fruit, but a juicy and vinous impression, with considerable retronasal vanillin from the cherry pits, remains the core of this unusual fruit lambic. Retronasally, apart from all the fruit, a kind of 'green' pepperiness as well as a noble oxidized sherry effect show up, but subtly so and only in the very end. Little bitterness from hops in the end, but the fruit skins take over this function and add soft astringency - again, not standing a chance against all that fruit wine juiciness. The sweeter and fleshier red fruits clearly dominate the sharper but thinner green fruits completely here. In all, sour-sweet to the extent that it vaguely nods at 'oud bruin', but more importantly: completely drowned in naturally grown, ripe, juicy autumn fruit, fleshy and vinous at the same time, with a background 'wet' earthiness (even something sewer-like) lurking around the corner, but not quite revealing itself. The latter only adds to the utterly natural character of this lambic, but I do miss the lambic 'wildness' as well as the refreshing effervescence present in Pluri-Elle by Lambiek Fabriek (the only lambic I can think of right now that departs from a similar concept even though the berries are not the same); like most of Kestemont's fruit lambics so far, this one feels a bit dirty, underattenuated and underdeveloped in its lambic core, but I am willing to admit that the sheer fruitiness and overly 'natural' character of this beer makes up for a whole lot. A bit odd but quite unique and surprising, so have some extra points for that alone.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

10/XI/23 - 37.5cl bottle @ 77ships’ place (Antwerp), BB: 29/VII/49, LOT 20220729 (2023-956) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!

Clear bright light red beer, no head. Aroma: nice, funky lambic smell, lots of brett, spicy, a bit woody, herbal notes, lemony touch, sourish impression. Where’s my fruit bouquet? MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sour start, a little bitter, red currants, some blackberries. Aftertaste: dry, bitter, fruity, berries, a bit spicy, lots of lambic, dry, good but not great. Was at least expecting more fruits.

7.4

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

Pours very unclear amberred. Scent is generic, earthy red berries. Taste is sharply tart, candy-like (not sweet though) berry mix. Dry finish. Enjoyable !

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cloudy red, no head. Aroma of red fruit. Tastes mainly of cherries through the woody cherry pit. Almond notes in the finish.

6

Hapu, kirsine, marjane, happeline, puuviljane. Ok.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Shortlived pink head over lightly veiled brownish pink-red beer. End of bottle solid fruitmash, utterly opaque. Nice, inviting red fruit nose; rich, vinous, rubus leaves, hints at lime. Fruit, again light vinosity, as a sparkling rosé. In the finish, there's malts and farmyard hints, and gradually, the vinosity goes from the rosé to more solid red Bordeaux. Medium bodied despite the acids, fruit filled. Feels better carbonated than it looks. Excellent - and original! Txs to Stef!