On tap at Akkurat. Hazy golden with no head. Citrus, some grapesm funk and oak. Fairly soft and easy to drink. A pleasant one, my first one from till brewery.

(Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, 24 Sep 2019, 22 months old) Golden colour with brief, white head. Fruity, slightly sourish nose with sour grapes, grapefruit and cellar. Fruity, tart taste with notes of grapefruit, sour grapes, cellar, sweaty horse and a tart and dry finish. Medium body, dry. Fresh, tasty and well made. Nice one.

Pours rather clear blonde, no real head of course. Smell is weak. Taste is tart, mildly acidic, bit green, bit off to me, even. Very herbal, sourness fades fast. Malty finish. Not very complex.

Fat på Akkan. Ganska mild lambic med inslag av dill, gurka och citrus. Inte den mest komplexa lambicen men välgjord och trevlig.

Straw blond with no head. Aroma has pleasant fruity notes. Flavour is slightly too acidic with a light throat burn. Exceptionally dry. Both woody and chalky.

Lambiek Fabriek is slowly achieving maturity, having been in existence long enough to possess lambic than can be qualified as ‘oude’; since I’ve been following them from the start – considering how rare it is that a new lambic producer is set up – and since the true nature and scope of a lambic becomes apparent only at older age, I was eager to taste this. The tasted sample, from tap at Beerlovers Bar in Antwerp, was 20 months old. Some loose, off-white bubbles form on the edges with pouring, but expectedly these disappear quickly; hazy peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Lovely, quite distinct but in any case very convincingly “Senne lambic” nose of old cheese rind and herb cheese, spice bread even, musty cellar, dried lemon zest, green plum, sour apples, bread crumbs, damp straw, crackers and a subtle and volatile sulfuric touch (‘putteke’). Estery, softly sour onset, nowhere sharply acidic but still fully ‘drained’ by long-stretched lactic tartness, with notes of sour grape, green plum and green gooseberry, obviously ‘flat’ mouthfeel, very bready middle, a bit ‘dusty’, old cracker and bread crumbs with that old dried spice and cheese rind effect returning in the end, supported by a late, dim bitterishness from old hops and an earthy touch. Still in development, this middle-aged lambic already shows promising signs of its own personality, not an unimportant accomplishment in this particular beer family; after Brett-Elle and Fontan-Elle, this will definitely find its way into an even more ‘mature’ geuze once it has reached an age at which oxidation truly begins to shape its taste and aroma. Already very pleasantly drinkable for sure, can withstand comparison with lambic of a similar age by most of the other producers.