8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Интересный ламбик, но в аромате больше какао зерен чем во вкусе, кислота в меру, может немного не хватает глубины только.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Fun novelty. It’s exactly what you’d expect - funky, bit of lemony tang, earth, nip of cocoa. Rather enjoyable for what it is.

7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle shared at the craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Aroma is semi sweet, spicy, green pepper,. Super sharp, tangy, lemon rind, lemon juice, super sharp. Palate is sharp, tangy, highish carbonation. Bit harsh, hint of coffee.

8.8

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from the Ermitage shop opposite the Loon Factory. Soft haze on a dark chestnut brown. Beautiful glossy topped lasting beige foam. Boss. Nose has swift earthy coffee bean on top of dark chocolate funky vinous gueuze. Some light oak and fruity twang. Drinks perilously easy and really smooth. Gets a bit juicy and more funky as it goes along. High class.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Rullquin, the meanwhile classic ‘bière de coupage’ consisting of Rulles Brune blended with Tilquin lambic, has spawned a few fruited variants in past years, but this year Tilquin has opted for a very different approach: instead of fruit, coffee was used to create two new variants, one with coffee from Rwanda and another with Ethiopian coffee. Coffee may be a very unusual ingredient in lambic (or even non-existent apart from a couple of ‘postmodern’ experiments), it is not uncommon for it to be applied to stouts or other dark beers, so in that sense this approach perhaps makes more sense than imagined at first glance. Thick and firm, frothy, cobweb-lacing, yellowish beige, stable head over a very dark hazy mahogany robe with ruddy-bronze glow. Complex, earthy and fruity bouquet of wild blackberries, dry forest floor, old oak furniture, indeed coffee powder clearly piercing through, even a whiff of green coffee beans, unripe nectarine, green apple, autumn leaves, lingonberries, barnyard, dandelion, unripe plum. Tart, estery onset, lots of dark forest fruit impressions, ranging from blackberries over lingonberries to wild apple and medlar, all in a mellowly sour way – nowhere acetic but consistently, dryingly tart, throughout the entire flavour ‘parcours’. Moderate carb, relatively ‘full’ body, bread-crusty malt ‘soil’ with a bitterish toasty edge – as usual in Rullquin, but this time the bitterness is made spicier, ‘longer’ and more fragrant by the coffee, working will with the meanwhile pronounced tannic effect of oak and the ‘wild berry’ tartness. A ‘green’, tree leaf- or ever so slightly weedy effect lingers in the middle of all this, together with a leathery and dried mushroom-ish Brett funkiness. The dark red fruity effect keeps everything ‘moelleux’ and juicy; fruity lactic sourness and aromatic, spicy coffee linger at the back. Some vague alcohol appears to warm things up a bit, too – together with the generally earthy, ‘foresty’ character of this creation, adding to an almost wintery feel. Warming coffee, warming alcohol, rustic earthiness and tart forest fruit: all these elements combine very well into a ‘sour stout’ of sorts, which integrates the Rwandese coffee elegantly – in fact the coffee only reinforces the ‘sour stout’ effect, unsurprisingly perhaps. Very tasty and classy creation, I am very much looking forward to sampling the ‘Ethiopian’ version if only to see if there is any noticeable difference, as the coffee at least in this one is but a minor, albeit powerful element among many other impressions…

7

Hapu, funky, röst, natuke manure-i/s!tta, kohvi, funky. Ok, veider

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle, directly from Tilquin. Color: Very dark ruby, beige head. Aroma: Dark and red fruit, coffee, some tartness, dark malt, rural funk. Taste: Dark and red fruit, almost immediately blended with by notes of coffee, coffeebeans. Hints of sour berries, light to moderate tart. Rural funk and wood hints. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Light bitterness. Medium body, below average carbonation. Nice one. The coffee takes out some or the tartness of the original.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750mL bottle at Tilquin, pours a deep dark brown with a large beige head. Aroma has moderate roasted malt, earthy funk, and high carbonation that comes across champagne-like. Flavour is complex and well-integrated, with moderate roast, gentle espresso, barnyard funk, leather, and earthiness. Beautiful balance. Excellent.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750mL bottle at the brewery. Pours murky dark brown with a light beige head. Dark roasty malts and coffee. Flavour has roasted coffee, dark toasty malts, some wild yeast. Stout, coffee, and lambic work great together.