Bottle shared with RandomStrangerNL at Lambik of doom. Clear deep ruby with bubbly creamy pink head. Medium funk up front with some dank cellar, hay, light mineral. Then some nice fruit kicks in, I don’t really get the individual fruits as such, but it’s all blended nicely into what you could call ‘forest fruits’. Soft grassy, more hay and funk. Medium sour, light sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft sparkly carbonation. Not crazy fruity, but a very nice blend that also makes the lambic shine. Great, again.

Bottle. Lambik-O-droom. Fairly pale, ruby red. Soft haze. Swirl of dense, semi lacing, raspberry yoghurt colour head. Nose has red berry sponge cake. Cherry lips sweets. Some herbal, woody notes. A little bit medicinal, maybe. Light, herbal funk in the background. Taste is lightly sour, and lightly dry, with a fruity sweetness on the lips. Light to medium body. Foamy carbonation. Short, lightly sour and fruity finish. Very easy drinking.

From backlog. 750ml bottle @ 3 Fonteinen Open Beer Days 2018. Pours dark deep reddish with a small pink head. Aroma of juicy tart berries, blackberries, sourness, some hints of earthiness and farmyard. Taste is smooth, slightly sourish and tart with some blackberry juice, earthiness and farmyard. Finish is sweetish and slightly sour with some blackberries, tartness and farmyard. Heavy with blackberry notes.

One of 588 bottles in total, at 3 Fonteinen's Open Beer Days, thanks Didier for sharing. Same principle as the VII.ii but with blackberries instead of blueberries, so a blackberry lambic mellowed and enriched with Hommage lambic. Pale lilac-coloured, regularly shaped, moussy ring of foam, open in the middle, over a deep purplish fuchsia red, misty beer. Funky aroma of unripe sour blackberries, lots of fresh 'furniture' wood (weirdly), nut shells and toasted pine nuts, old dusty books, stale urine, fresh fig juice, dried apricot, dry haystacks, amontillado sherry. Strong sour blackberry juice tartness in the mouth, made fleshier, 'winier' and 'darker' even by the raspberry and cherry from the Hommage part, utterly dry and 'brut' with sharply acidic lemony edges, tannic finish still fully soaked in sour berry juiciness, with a vague earthy note in the end. Very complex but very acrid as well and even though I'd love to revisit a bottle of this (or any other Speling van het Lot, for that matter), to my personal taste the blueberry version numbered as VII.vii achieved the same goal better - taking into account that blueberries and blackberries are totally different fruits with different properties, of course.

Bottle at the brewery. Beautiful, deep crimson color. Nose is blackberry, yogurt, grapefruit, spices. Juicy berry flavor, grapefruit, lots of fresh fruit, more blackberry this time, which is fun. Lovely.

Thank you! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ 3 Fonteinen Lambiek-o-droom. Pomegranate wine red beer juice,… Huge blackberry in the nose, funky, leaves, skins, wild,..; Juicy acidic, leaves, funk, skins, huge blackberry juice & funk, wine leaves, funky low acidity in the back, amazing, the fruit & funk, spectacular.

9 4 8 3 18Bottle shared at Open Beer Days. Hazy red purple with a pink head. Aroma of blackberry, tart dark berries, raspberry and light woody notes. Flavour is light moderate sweet and moderate sour. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

0,75l bottle at the 3 Fonteinen. boudeaux like color, small white head. smells of strong berries, blackberries, light mulberry, lightly musty, bit earthy, bit grassy, citric. very nice intense berry note smell. medium body, soft carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes of berry notes, blueberry, citric, bit earthy, bit musty, grassy, bit lactic, wood, oak. finishes dry and lightly sour with notes of berries, earthy and citric notes. wow, this is lovely 9, 4, 9, 4, 17