Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Copper color. Nice fruity aroma, maybe artificial, but pleasant; it reminds me some teas with fruits and flowers (peach, mango, strawberry, violets…). Soft drink, sweet and fruity (strawberry and raspberry), with a light lemon sourness at the end, and nothing showing the beer. Maybe at the very end, the final, is reminding more the beer. An easy drink, but quite well done anyway.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
375mL bottle. Pours a deep dark, brilliant burnished gold, dark peach and orange. Small fizzy white head typical of Lindeman’s fruit lambics. Smells spicey and quite fragrant with a big whiff of sweet peaches, somewhat candied. Flavor wise, this one is about as sweet as the raspberry, maybe a touch less, with a wonderfully true peach flavor elegantly combined with Lindemans gueuze-like finish qualities, sour, dry barley and lots of spicey yeast, light cobewbs and some wet hay. But the peach sticks around and is quite sticky and chewy. This one works really well, and the gentle yet present natural carbonation that I love from Lindemans adds a wonderful chewy, interesting aspect to the mouthfeel. So good, I ordered a second one at the bar. Did I mention the peach in this really creates an astonishing golden-amber color? But. . .Awesome fruit beer? Yes. Even remotely a lambic? Not really.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Oude Gueuze Cuvée René from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
2001 bottle. 1/18/2004. If it was possible, I would have gone right back to the store, bought another bottle and drank it again, right there (store closed). Just amazing. Perfect balance, delightfully sour, yet I couldnt get sick of it if I drank a bathtub full. Full body, bottle conditioned, hazy golden-maize colored. Decent white head, perfect mouthfeel. Lightly bubbly to the last drop and bursting with complexity. Barns, shoes, farms, goats, cheese, wool blankets. . .Whatever descriptive words you wanna use, it’s probably there. So chewy. Aroma is amazingly full and in your face, sweet and sour, with lots of strong cobwebby yeast, sweet doughiness. Aftertaste lingers on and on, with a lovely juicy acidic leather/cheese flavor. Best gueuze I’ve had so far and man am I happy that I have a 94, 98, 99 and 02 bottle of this stuff.
2003 bottle sampled in June 04 with Bucknaked and GoldenSpunky(had the 01 with them as well). Right away, the extra fruitiness is apparent, same great mouthfeel and leather tannins. Sweeter due to the youngness of this, not as funky, but no doubt it will gain as it ages. Maybe a tad bit less acidic, very drinkable, a bit more doughiness in the finish of this one, and maybe a bit more mellow than the 01.
2002 Bottle. 6/28/2004This one was similar to the 01 in it’s more dry, yeasty profile, though I found this one to be significantly less tart and puckering than the 01 (most likely I’m just developing more of a palate for these). The flavors seemed a bit dull compared with the extra funky 01, but the finish came alive with tons of microbial taste. Good twang at the end and still loved every sip.
1998 bottle, sampled 11/04 Beautiful, just pure gueuze flavors, bright and mellow jumping out at you. Gone are the sweet, young fruity flavors and in place is a spectacular yeastiness, full of light blue cheese and leather. Dry and with a slight slight hint of caramel on the finish.
2004 bottle sampled 7/23/2005 I don’t know, I’ve heard all the talk, from many accredited sources, saying that this one has gone down hill in recent years. That certainly was not my experience. Stunning green apples and dirty barnyard feel to it, with bret emanating forth, it was a delicious, full-bodied (for the style) treat on the mouth. Tiny bubbles, tingling sensation with plenty of funkiness and lots of malt. It’s quite a change of pace, as I’ve been drinking Cantillon lately, but I remember why I love this stuff. Yes, the 2004 is still too young and is a bit sweet/syrupy, but no doubt that will fade in time. Loved it.
Having recently had a very good, but not outstanding 1994, a good 1998 and 2 drainpour 2002’s, I am going to lower the score a bit. I suspect the quality has gone downhill over the years, even if slightly. Still need to have some 2-3 year old bottles to really guage it.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Faro from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The aroma is sweet and sour with notes of wood and (too old?) candy sugar - maybe the fact that it was 4 years past last expiry date caused the "old" aroma. The color is dark amber and poures with a fine head. The flavor is lovely sweet combined with sourness and notes of caramel and hints of the wild fermentation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
The aroma is of peach, wild fermentation and hints of dust and metal. The color is beutiful, somewhere between pink and orange (maybe peach?) and the head is beutiful too. The flavor is very sweet (a bit too sweet for my liking) but on a sour background. The sourness draws the mouthwater. In the end it turns somewhat dry and leaves you with a strong peach flavor.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Tea Beer from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Orange-red-amber, (tea)totally clear; short dense yellowish head. Quite fruity nose, faint whiff of Brett and lambicpipes, sourish. Sourish taste, very wood, and lemon. And at the end, there's an aftertaste - I somehow recognise it as tea (I ought to, given that tea is the only beverage I drink more than beer). No Earl Grey, no Assam or Nilgiris here - the worst of Lipton-on-ice, lemon flavour included. Artificial lemon, at that, out of a yellow plastic bottle. Even not refreshing - too much sugar added. Beyond awful. In my own classification, it doesn't even get a tick. This is juvenile soft drink, not beer.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Framboise from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
2003 Draft at Cadieux Cafe in Detroit. Dark purple-red strawberry looking color, completely opaque with a solid light pink-cream head that sticks around for a while. Aroma of fresh raspberries, and wet towels. Good mix of sweetness and funk. Flavor is full and powerful, but fortunately, not as terribly sweet as the kriek. Big bold spicy raspberry flavor, quite authentic and not fake tasting. As it gets extremely sweet with raspberries the gueuze in the background picks up and a nice and much needed sourness comes on, slightly balancing this beer. Again, as with every Lindemans product I’ve tried, the lightly spritzy almost chewy carbonation gives it as good a texture as I could want. Like the Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock, there’s probably too much raspberry, but only a bit too much, and if you are in the mood for something sweet, this delivers. 7/5/7/3/16
Bottle at the 4/17/2005 Montreal tasting. Better than the cassis, and kriek, but terribly sweet and syrupy, like thick raspberry jam. I will average the ratings of this, since the draught version is significantly more palateable. 6/4/5/3/10
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Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A clear red beer with a huge beutiful pink head. The aroma is totally dominated by cherries. The flavor is also dominated by cherries, but on a woody background and hints of sourness. It is only hints of the wild fermentation - and that is a little sad. Drink it cold as an apperitif - but don't expect a real lambic from this beer.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Gueuze from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
375mL bottle, no date (looks pretty new). Nice pale gold with some light brass hues. Towards the end of the bottle, with the sediment, it takes on a fully hazy appearance with multiple distinct colors making it look like there are two different liquids in there. Quite cool. Good large off-white head. Aroma is quite nice, light green apples, some soft, medium ripe farm cheese, light hay and big sour yeasty goodness. Aroma lasts too. Begins with a moderately tart hop bite followed by a sugary sweet medium body. Tapers off in to a lightly bitter finish with some lingering sticky sweetness, like a sweet and sour fruit chew. Flavor is quite sweet for a gueuze and I will admit to wanting more tartness. Seems very very young, though the body only being medium makes me wonder how long you could realistically age this for. Good mouthfeel, as with most lindeman products, bottle conditioned carbonation provides for just the right amount of zing to balance out the malt sweetness. Wheat adds an interesting neutral papery texture, but is not that noticeable.
caesar (10848) reviewed Kriek from Brouwerij Lindemans 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
I drank the Souvenirs Kriek, 3.5 %. Clear red color, short pink head. Aroma of artifical cherry sweets. Taste is also immensely sweet of cherry candy, no sourness at all.