3.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 3.5 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5

One of two new sugared, 'industrial' fruit beers by Mort Subite, probably inspired by that ridiculous rouge hype here in Belgium; this one contains mango and passionfruit concentrate as well as added sugar, but seems altogether just a notch less artificial than that ghastly Bloody Berry version. Thick, even, moussey, egg-white, foamy, regular head over a lightly misty pale straw blonde robe with old golden tinge and lots of fiery sparkling. Aroma of Mango Minute Maid, passionfruit lemonade, Orangina, wet wheat flour, industrial lemon juice, something vaguely sulfuric in the background, soapy note or paraffin wax, touch apple peel or green pear. Unsurprisingly very sweet, white-sugary onset, ascorbic acid as in lemonade, but in this case obviously flavoured with a ton of artificial mango and artificial passionfruit fusing with each other into one sugary, 'tropical' lemonade effect; fizzy carb but fine-bubbled, smooth body, wheaty underbuilt with soapy effect, very slick - but consistently dominated by sugar and this mango and passionfruit juice concentrate. Not much else happens here, apart from a very vague, slightly chemical bitterish note that should probably be ascribed to the fruit concentrates; needless to say, lambic features are nowhere to be seen, even basic 'beeriness' is completely absent. This is again a childish lemonade-like concoction with no gastronomic ambitions, no complexity, no honesty, no honour - a pale version of rouge indeed. I have doubts about the way Mort Subite even produces their 'lambic' in the first place and this kind of aberrations do not help. I can down this when ice cold and in one gulp - more easily perhaps than that cough syrup-like berry version, but that is about the most positive thing I can say here. Damn you, Mort Subite - there are enough fine lambic producers in (and even outside of) Belgium now, I do not think we need you around anymore, sorry!

5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

On tap at Beer Capital Brussels, pours a cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is full of juicy passionfruit, lacto, and some wheaty notes. Flavour is like sweet passionfruit juice, with a touch of hay and maybe a hint of citrus. Insulting to call this a lambic. This is just sweet passionfruit juice.

5.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5

33cL tap at Beer Capital. Pours hazy blonde with a white head. Passion fruit on the nose. Flavour has a ton of super sweet passion fruit. No complexity. Not a lambic.

7.2

Super drinkable, but basically a juice. They abv is completely hidden. Brugge beer store

6.6

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

Pours slightly hazy blonde. Small white head. Scent is fruit puree. Totally lost all lambic. Taste is sweet, sugary, fruit puree. Very unnatural. Tad earthy.. very recognizable pf, but very hard to picture this as natural. Pf candy juice. Difficult to finish because of the monotone sweetness.