7.9

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

750ml (thx, Matt!) @ SF.
A lot of nice funk and manure, some grapes and oak. Taste is very bubbly, moderately tart, woody, a lot of tannins. Good one.

7.6

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

2023. Hazy and pale. The head doesn't last long. The aroma has a sweet almost pear juice note, along with a light brett and leather. So that's going to be grape, not pear, of course. A bit of pedio on this as well. This has a juicy character, nice bit of lambic funk, off-dry. The grapes go strangely with this. They sort of overpower the lambic stuff, which is funky but buried under fruit sugars and carbonation.

7.8

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

750mL bottle, pours a cloudy bright golden with a medium white head. Nose is full of big barnyard funk, Chardonnay skins, gentle acidity, and some leather – very effervescent. Flavour is full of intense champagne-like effervescence, big barnyard funk, Chardonnay skins, and leather. Light-to-moderate acidity, with super high carbonation. Almost more like a funky champagne. Very good.

8

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

Poured from 750mL bottle (2023 vintage). Hazy yellow gold with white head. Some funk, dry with lots of carbonation, mild chardonnay underlay. Quite nice.

8

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

750mL bottle. Pours murky yellow with a white head. Aroma has a musty funk, some manure. Flavour has manure, barnyard funk, musty grape skins, and a dry white wine quality. Strong carbonation. Very nice.

7.9

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

Bottle @ Ratebeer Odense Winter Tasting pt. 2, 2024, Rosenørnsvej. Pours cloudy Golden with a bubbly White head. Fizzy. Sesame, Chardonnay, Wood, funk and barnyard. Medium bodied. Sharp and acidic.

7

Ratebeer Odense. Black and sour in November. Cloudy golden with a disappearing white head. Fruity and funky aroma with orange, wood and a touch of iodine. Dry and very tart funky flavour with fruity notes.

7

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours a clear, exceptionally light blonde. Huge white head instantly collapses to nothing. Looks very much like a cider, actually. Loads of visible carbonation. Scent is very funky again remains me of cider, rather than (grape) lambic. Harsh, brett, funk. Taste is very acidic, rough and raw, sharp in it's acidity. A fruity touch, but it's more apple-like than grape-like, let alone for me to specifically recognize the chardonnay grapes. Brett, funk, and a very high, sharp carbonation. Very dry. Not at all what I expected, really. Not a bad drink at all, though - appart from the vast overcarbonation.

7.9

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

5/V/24 - 75cl bottle @ Toer de Geuze, BB: n/a (2024-303) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Cloudy blond beige beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice, juicy, fruity, white grapes, some apples, nice stuff! MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very sour, lots of apples, malic acidity, a bit lemony, fruity. Aftertaste: white grapes, funky, wild, eathy, funky, brett, nice. More apples than grapes in the taste though.

8.1

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Grape lambic using Chardonnay - the world's most famous white grape - released together with a Pinot Noir version; after the extreme gushing I experienced with that last one, I was fully prepared and managed to reduce the loss to a minimum, but be warned, this one too has enormous pressure on it, opens with a tremendous 'bang' and keeps overflowing long after the first pour. Initially very thickly moussey, egg-white, foamy to creamy head, gradually receding to a rather thin rim and flat 'islands' in the middle, over a hazy warm honeyed peach blonde robe, turning a bit murky and beige in the very end. Aroma of small and sour white grapes and grape skins, lots of green apple (which in this case comes partially from the Chardonnay, showing the grapes were grown in a cool climate - where they produce more malic acid), garden sorrel, yellow plum, unripe nectarine, dusty attic, dry haystack, musty barn, white currant, stewed rhubarb, natural (white) wine, lemon rind, unripe mandarin, minerals, apricot kernels, touch of urine (but fittingly so in a lambic). Crisp, sour onset, lots of sour grape and green apple, crushed gooseberry and rhubarb, with a vague unripe pineapple-, white currant- and pear-like sweetishness hidden within the tartness and coming from the Chardonnay grapes; lively carbonation - champagne-like and sharply fizzing but acceptable for the style. Slender bready core under lots of tart yellow-green fruitiness and lactic acidity, with that sweetish element thinly continuing as well, blending with tannic woodiness but also tannic effects from the grapes, yet somehow the whole remains juicy enough in spite of those tannins. Earthy (old hop) and pronounced funky (Brett) aspects in the finish as well, with musty barn and urine returning, but all in an interesting, elegant way, like a natural wine made of Chardonnay grapes - the fact that the generously applied grapes dominate here, is what keeps this whole lambic colourful and refreshing, especially after swallowing when a trace of lemon juice lingers, tightly connected with vinous sour-sweet white grape flavours. More vividly fruity and grape-focused than the Pinot Noir version, which went a bit in all directions and behaved rather wildly funky, this one to me is clearly the better of the two, and in spite of the gushing, quite a vibrant and powerful grape lambic, even if still a bit rough around the edges. May improve a bit further with extended cellaring. Nice one from one of traditional lambic's most uncompromising producers.