Humus x Hortense - Lievevrouwebedstro
Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen in Lot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Untraditional Series|
Score
6.99
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Deze fles traditioneel lambikbier is het resultaat van de wederzijdse bewondering van restaurant humus x hortense en Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen. In hun gezamenlijke visie rond agro-ecologie en met de goesting om een lokaal en natuurlijk bier te creëren van bodem tot bord en glas, vonden ze elkaar in deze moerasspirealambik. Chef Nicolas Decloedt en sommelière Caroline Baerten schuwen daarbij wildpluk niet, wat bijdraagt tot de puurheid en duurzaamheid van hun veganistische keuken. Zo werken zij trouwens - net zoals Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen – rechtstreeks met boeren uit eigen streek. Deze keer kwamen Caroline en Nicolas met lievevrouwbedstro, een aromatische plant met geurige kleine witte bloempjes. Die lieten we macereren op oude lambik van meer dan vijftig maanden oud (dezelfde lambik die we voor de dennentoppen gebruikten). De 3 Fonteinen-lambik is afkomstig van één vat en drie brouwsels, quasi allemaal gebrouwen met Pajotse ingrediënten! De fijne aroma’s balanceren zeer mooi met de ‘funky’ lambik.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Lambic flavoured with locally harvested sweet woodruff, a very aromatic forest plant (indigenous in Belgium especially in beech forests but also cultivated) I have been very much familiar with all my life - my late grandmother used to grow it in her own herb garden and dried its leaves, believing in their medicinal powers. This is one of apparently four herb-themed lambics that were created in collaboration with Michelin-starred Brussels restaurant Humus x Hortense, the first vegan restaurant in Belgium to receive the honour. Snow white, medium thick, moussey, slowly breaking head over a hazy deep orange-glowing peach blonde robe. Aroma of indeed strong soapy sweet woodruff, bergamot- and perfume-like almost and very ethereal (but fading after a while), orange pith, old wood, dry sherry, yellow plum, freshly cut wood bluegrass, waxed leather, old nut shells. Quite 'mals' in the onset, citric in a refreshing and elegant way with that bergamot association returning - but this is of course the ethereal features of the sweet woodruff announcing themselves; aspects of yellow plum, purple gooseberry and nectarine, moderately carbonated with rather vinous mouthfeel. Bread-crusty core under severely drying, yet supple lactic acid and continuing yellow-green fruitiness and esteriness, with tannic wood effects and of course a very herbal and ethereal, perfumey sweet woodruff effect - too soapy for some, no doubt, but in any case recognisable as sweet woodruff and in that sense still relatively 'natural' (not that any 3 Fonteinen beer has ever been unnatural, of course...). Juicy tart fruitiness, even some vanillin from the oak barrels and a lingering minerality adorn a finish otherwise dominated by the sweet woodruff and tart fruitiness of the lambic. Not to everyone's liking, I noticed, and I guess the same reasoning goes here like for all herb beers: if you do not like the aroma of sweet woodruff, stay clear from it. If you do, you will find that this lambic uses it in a very convincing, but also very elegant way - its 'malse' character and sweet 'perfumeyness' actually make it very easy to drink. I liked it - so I should go back to taste the other three in this interesting series.