Mort Subite

Commercial Brewery in Kobbegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Owned by Brouwerijen Alken-Maes NV/SA - Heineken Belgium
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1685

Contact
Lierput 1, Kobbegem, 1730, Belgium
Subsidiaries
Mort Subite owns 1 brewery:
Description
Mort Subite is a brand name currently under the Carlsberg & Heineken group since 2007, and located in Kobbegem, northwest of Brussels. Mort Subite produces both traditional oude geuze and oude kriek lambics, as well as a line of sweetened products all under the Mort Subite name.

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3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

Clean blond color. Syrupy peach aroma and taste; sweet; useless; for children!

Tried on 24 Sep 2003 at 08:04


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

Blond colour, white head. It has the typical lambicaromas: sweet, sour, fruity. Also sweet and sour flavour, but not as sour as eg Gueuze Cantillon. Long aftertaste.

Tried from Can on 20 Sep 2003 at 14:44


4.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Pale amber mixed with pink; pale pinkish foam, good head, lacy. Horrible artificial fruit-like smell. Another toilet deodorant. Terrible aroma gets its prolonging in the taste. It is however less unpleasant, thanks to a certain tartness – and a general ‘fade’ flavour. It remains awful, however. Mouthfeel is the best; tartness, dry-out effect, OK. Once the toilet cleaner aroma is gone, the beer becomes tolerable. I will never buy this again – compared to this the Lindemans cassis is a treat.

Tried on 16 Sep 2003 at 13:35


4.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

With elderberries
Ruby-amber color, pale pink head. Very light cherry syrup aroma. Dry taste, with some fruits, but too poor.

Tried on 08 Sep 2003 at 03:17


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Light amber color. The aroma is enough woody and sour. The flavor is too sweet, with just some wood and a light sourness. Ordinary palate.

Tried on 08 Sep 2003 at 03:16


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Red with purple shine; pink head nearly immediately gone. Typical nose with solvent, paintstripper, estery too, rather than fruity. Sweet-sour taste, with interesting connotations as tamarind pulp, sweet fruits, smokey. Rather refreshing mouthfeel. In the aftertaste a decent bitter-woodiness is traceable. All in all not bad - just a little more outspoken sour cherries would be more convincing, instead of interesting.

Tried on 01 Sep 2003 at 09:44


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Light ruby red, cyclamen-pink huge head, slowly collapsing (on a lambic??). Undeterminate fruitgums nose, something out of an New Age soap/giftshop. Sweet, but not overwhelmingly so. There is a slight acidic tartness, like some unripe fruit. Fruit again prominent on the edge of natural-artificial flavour, but not specifically raspberry. Taste is however remarkably better than the nose. Retronasal wet-straw flavour. Mouthfeel is OK, slight tartness, and something cloying at the same time. Light bodied. The soap-fruity aroma keeps hanging around. For all that is better as feared, it is still a near insult to what a real raspbery-lambic can be. Oh well, the visitors of the soap-giftshop will like it.

Tried from Can on 21 Jul 2003 at 06:03


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

Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark amber with brief creamy head. Pleasant fruity black cherry aroma. Sweet, clean and rather soft with lightly acidic finish. Refreshing, and surprisingly complex. Oddly this faro has the most character of any of the Mort Subite beers I've sampled.

Tried on 07 Jun 2003 at 12:05


6.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pale yellow and hazy with creamy head. Sweet yeasty nose with notes of black currant. Clran and light bodied, typical witbier flavour, but a bit thin as such, with an extra addition of lactic acid. Woody, short, sharp finish.

Tried on 07 Jun 2003 at 12:02


5.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

It has a red, quite bright colour. Infortunately I like treble colours for a Lambic-beer. it has a sweet cherry aroma. Damned, I bought a bottle without flavours. Perhaps are the sweet, sour, cherry sparkles remainders of the flavour. fortunately the thiefs of the flavours weren't up to the job and left some.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jun 2003 at 11:55