Sloe Lambicus
Timmermans in Itterbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
5.91
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Associated for the first time with a brewing fermentation, and married to a young lambic, thus acid, this beer ends in a rich taste browsing 3 delicious stages, from its introduction in mouth. It reveals successively its freshness by a powerful nose, a fruity flavor moderately spreaded with an acidity become modest and conjugated with a conclusion reminding its unpublished basic fruit.
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Leighton (34941) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can at home in Hackney - think I picked this up from a European online shop a couple years back. Pours clear purple-red with a quickly dissipating fizzy pink head. The nose is all berry cough syrup. Flavour is sweet though not quite cloying, with some artificial berry notes, further cough syrup vibes, not really much acidity, maybe a whisper of berry tartness. Light bodied with spritzy carbonation. Finishes with ripe berries, grapes, decent sweetness. After a few sips, the palate acclimates and it becomes more bearable. But this is not, by any means, a good beer.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Newish addition to the long tradition of sweet Timmermans fruit beers that hardly deserve the 'lambic' moniker - this time with the less obvious sloe berry, a kind of small wild plum that has been used in beer throughout Europe for centuries, though never on a very large scale. Next to sloe berry, elderberry has also been used here, but who knows in what form... Originally intended for the British market apparently, but now also appearing on the shelves in Belgium. Mousy, membrane-lacing, pale lilac coloured, slowly breaking head on a clear, deep violet-purple beer with ruby red glow. Aroma of plum candy and the heavily sugared elderberry syrup my grandmother used to make, white sugar, candyfloss, industrial plum 'confituur', children's cough syrup or Antwerpian 'Borstbollen', lemon juice from a bottle, Roosvicée. Sweet onset as expected, with a lemonade-like 'ascorbic' sourishness to it; very artificial mishmash of generic dark forest fruit aromas (reminiscent of Timmermans Woudvruchten), with the sloeberry only represented as a hint of Japanese plum candy. Bubblegummy, lively carbonated, bit thinnish body, a thin cereally base completely buried under the sugars and this cooked forest fruit aroma, which remains artificial; light gypsum-like effect and a very dim bitter touch in the end as well. Unusual for a sweet fruit beer, a 'plum lemonade' so to speak, but certainly nothing lambic-like is to be found here (not that I was expecting that). Could not be more different from e.g. the sloeberry sours produced by Alvinne, to name the other extreme in sloeberry use in beer; I am, however, left wondering what a true sloeberry lambic would taste like, but I don't think we should expect one to come from Timmermans soon - it's a good thing that they do traditional geuze and kriek, but other than that, owner John Martin still refuses to see the great potential in 'true' fruit lambics, because they are all about the money, of course... I hate that company. And I hate sweet 'candy beers' being allowed to refer to lambic in their names and labels!
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
21st February 2020
Can. Light have on this reddish mauve beer, good bubbly pale magenta head. Palate is light and has a light fine carbonation. Nice fruity sloe, like a slightly watered down sloe gin, touch of blackcurrant in there. A mild tartness here but more sweetness. Light finish. Pleasant fruity but actually could be a little more tart and even more intense in the fruity department.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Pours dark pink. Smell is very sweet, sugary. Fruits ( berry ) . Taste is full, sweet, sugary, berry extracts. Not great…
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Small pink head, reasonably stable over cardinal-red beer, leaving rings of lace. Syrupy nose, red berries, shoemakers' polish, sloeberry, musk. Velvety feel, slick, cherry childrens' sweets, sweetness gradually increasing. Not very full flavoured. Light body, syrup-slick. OK, it might be meant for the English market, but all the same, Willem, foei!
BeardedAvenger (9068) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can from Wine Rack, Burpham. Sweet fruity aroma. Dark purple/burgundy. Creamy pinky head. Sweet. Very sweet. Some sourness into the finish. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average carbonation. Dry finish. This is nice enough but could be an alcopop. Actually reminds me of a blackberry flavoured ice pop.
Downender (11275) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Can from Trembling Madness, York. Deep cherry in colour, with a moderately-sized, white head flecked with pink. A very sweet beer, with sugary dark fruits and not much of either alone or lambic character. Disappointing drinking.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Can split at GBBF '18, day 4 thanks to Scopey, 10/08/18. Raspberry red with a well presented crimson cap. Nose is overly sweet for the style, sticky fruits syrups, berry fruits, perfume. Taste comprises berry fruit syrup, sticky fruits, grass, plummy jam, sugars. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Not good ... sweet avec sticky.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Sloe Lambicus from Timmermans 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can 330ml shared by Scopey @ GBBF 2018 - Day 4 🇬🇧 [ Great British Beer Festival 2018 ], London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX.
[ As Timmermans Sloe Lambicus ].
ABV: 3.5%. Cloudy medium red - purple colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white - purple head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, horse blanket, berries, sloen, plum. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet berries, bread - dough, sloe - plum, tart notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20180810]
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