Hazy pink appearance with no head. Aroma is very stinky. Lots of horse shit. Flavour is fruity and sour.

Zythos 2018. Cloudy pale red with a tiny white head. Aroma of funk, herbs, pepper, grass, sulphur and red berries. Dry and tart spicy and funky flavour with red currant.

750mL bottle, pours a cloudy orange amber with a tiny head. Nose is wonderfully fragrant, with loads of tart citrus, stone fruits, with barnyard funk and some light tanginess. Flavour is intense, with ascorbic citrus notes, pithy stone fruits, and a touch of barnyard funk. Carbonation is bordering on flat, which doesn't optimize the beer. Very fruity, tart and dynamic, but could use more carb.

Bottle at puttetjes’ new castle. Hazy amber. Sour grain, red berries, strawberries, apricot, grapes, hay. Moderate sweet and bitter, slightly over medium sour. Medium body and soft carbonation. Bit lactic gluey.

Powtorka? Granda! ;) gushing! Dziwne piwo ale smaczne :) 3.7

Bottle. Clear pinkish color few bubbles. Aroma of moderate funk, dust, citrus. Taste is sour stone fruit, more dust. Interesting.

One of the two special De Cam fruit lambics made for last year's Toer de Geuze; taking into account the recommendations from the blender, Karel Goddeau, I waited for nearly a year to open this one (ten months to be precise - curiosity got the better of me and I couldn't resist any longer). The first lambic, to my knowledge at least, using redcurrants, about 450 grams of them per liter, so a higher proportion than what is custom for e.g. traditional kriek. Thin, cream white head consisting of densely packed, minute bubbles, instantly settling as a feeble and eventually completely dissolving ring around the glass with open middle; initially clear, beautifully warm rosy-tinged orange colour, nearly identical to the colour of a Malbec rosé wine, with some lone, minute bubbles rising up here and there and tiny little bits of fruit remnants (peel?) which otherwise have settled at the bottom of the bottle in the form of a relatively thick residue of yeast - clearly a bottle which needs rest and should be poured with great care and patience. Unusual aroma, very funky and brightly fruity at the same time, with the familiar aroma of redcurrant berries piercing powerfully through hints of old shoes, old cloth and old rubber even, dusty book shelves, salted tomatoes, pickled green beans, dried peach stones (the redcurrant seeds, no doubt), abbey cheese crust, raw rhubarb, toxic asparagus berries, green cranesbill leaves, bitter orange flesh, artisanal sour yoghurt and, as more of the sediment gradually enters the glass, more aspects of stale urine and even a faint background whiff of rotten egg enter as well - though fortunately in a volatile way, disappearing in instants. Puckering sour onset, lemony or even vinegary acidity reinforced by a high dosage of redcurrant - with that greenish, sharp acidic flavour of it deeply integrated into the lambic; a notable (green) tomato flavour is there as well, and just that minute hint at peachy sweetishness - but so minute that it goes all but lost in all this sourness. Carbonation is soft (bordering on flat even), mouthfeel is completely bone dry - with that unusual 'green plant'-like aspect lingering in the taste, after wheaty and bready maltiness have passed, completely dried by not just the fruity acidity, but, perhaps even more so, by a very thorough, deep lactic sourness as well, depositing a sour yoghurt-like effect blending with that green effect. Ends as dry as it began, with lots and lots of redcurrant acidity and -flavour, though I get more of a green, unripe redcurrant berry impression than a juicy red (or yellow) one. Some background woodiness too, and retronasal funky things going on, including that weird rubbery hint from the nose - but not to the extent that it bothers me. If lambic in general can be quite a difficult taste to accomplish for outsiders, then this one certainly is one of the most difficult of them all - even after a whole bottle, I still hadn't gotten completely used to it, and I drink lambic beers all the time... I am still not sure if redcurrants are the best fruit to use and the blueberry lambic released by De Cam together with this one was more 'easily' enjoyable, but I must say that this thoroughly dry and sour, funky fruit lambic fascinated me hugely. Being familiar with redcurrant berries from my grandmother's garden ever since I was a child, it wasn't too difficult recognizing their abudant presence here, but the green, even bitter or poisonous garden herb thing as well as that old rubber-like aspect probably shouldn't have been there to make this experiment shine the way it could have. Difficult case, this one, and probably my least favorite of the novelties De Cam has released in recent years - but interesting just because it is such a difficult one. Maybe I opened it too soon after all? Anyway: one which divides opinions, that much is clear, already by looking at the ratings below...

Fra flaske 750ml på Muted Horn Berlin 11 Jan 18. Påspandert. Gylden. 0 skum. Surølaroma. Smaken umodne druer. Lett tørr ettersmak.