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Op de grens van Groot-Bijgaarden en Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle staat een hoeve waar boeren en brouwen tot op de dag van vandaag gecombineerd worden. Tot voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog was dit in het Pajottenland de gewoonste zaak van de wereld, maar sindsdien liet men overal de boerenstiel voor wat hij was en concentreerde men zich enkel op het brouwen van lambik. Niet zo op de Lindenberg, daar zet de familie Girardin deze traditie al vier generaties verder.
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caesar (10832) reviewed
Framboise from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Slightly hazy red color, short off-white head. Sweet sour aroma of raspberry. Sweet taste, fruity, not tart, only slightly sour. Sticky palate. If you like raspberry, it’s probably quite ok.
Tried on 14 Jun 2004 at 10:47
Sloefmans (15815) reviewed
Kriekenlambik from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
7.3/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
(draught of course) White-pinkish slim head; slightly hazy, beautiful cyclamen-red beer. Faintly sweets-nose, cherrydrops, some Brett shining trough. Rather sweet taste, but not sugared or syrupy cherry taste. It is as if sweet-cherry (kersen) juice has just been added, instead of sour cherry (krieken) juice. Touch of almonds from the stones. The fruit lends extra filling to the mouthfeel. However weirdly sweet, it never presents an artificial flavour profile. It just seems the wrong kind of fruit - for a lover of the sour-fruit theme. For a sweet tooth, however...
Tried on 30 May 2004 at 03:42
omhper (46303) reviewed
Faro from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Sampled draught (bag-in-box) at Akkurat, Stockholm.
Reddish amber, clear no head. Apple aroma. Sweet and still, fruity and clean. Pleasant and caramelly up front, but with artificial saccaharine liek finish. Not up to par with the rest of the Girardins
Tried on 12 May 2004 at 02:40
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Oude Lambik from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
9.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9

2012-06-20, bag-in-the-box at Bier Circus, Bruxelles, 8-5-7-4-15=39
Cloudy amber color. The aroma is mild, with caramel, candi sugar, light cellar smell. The mouthfeel is smooth and round, with good malt and caramel flavor and good cellar character, almost without acidity. The final is bitter.
Strange but very enjoyable.

2009-10-09, bag-in-the-box at Ølbutikken, Copenhagen, 7-4-8-4-16=39
Amber color, flat. Delicate funky aroma, mild indeed. Flat mouthfeel, but with a reasonable body, some malt, light residual sweetness, lightly astringent but also surprisingly smooth for a lambic. Woody final, tannic and bitter. Very good, strange.

2004-04-04, first time for me, it’s stored in a 10 liters plastic bags, as we use in Switzerland for farmer’s apple juice!
10-4-9-5-18=46
Golden color; no carbonation.
Wonderful aroma; cheesy, fruity (grapes, apricots, pink grapefruit…); light vinegar.
Flows smoothly on my tongue, wonderful and fruity, most of all pink grapefruit.
An incredible Unblended: many thanks to Jacob (Lövenlund) for sharing this!
Tried from Can on 29 Apr 2004 at 06:55
Oakes (34715) reviewed
Gueuze White Label from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
10/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 10
Hazy, orangey colour; pungent aroma - lots of soft cheeses (not a cheese expert so I can't get specific), and yes, the wet barn thing. So complex - wheaty, barnyardy, cheesey, with hay-like, woody dryness and a hint of sour apples. There is so much going on here. I absolutely love this beer. (Yes, I'm aware that it's heresy to prefer the white label version, but I can only go based on what's in the glass, and this is what I've preferred).
Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2004 at 09:59
Ungstrup (52439) reviewed
Gueuze White Label from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
[I had the white label version] The color is a hazy amber and it has a fine beige head. The flavor is sweet and sour with the distinct notes of wild fermentation. The flavor is lovely acidic with strong notes of lemon though without being sour. The end is dry and the wild fermentation very present. A very fresh beer - would love this to cool off in the summer heat. All in all a lovely gueze.
Tried on 02 Feb 2004 at 15:36
Ungstrup (52439) reviewed
Kriek from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
7/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
A clear cherry red beer with a beutiful light brown head. The aroma is sweet and sour. The flavor is primarily of sour cherries and wood with an underlying sweetness and slightly sourness - not too much of either. For a Kriek I think it isn't sour enough and the cherries are a bit too prominent. A nice beer, but not perfect.
Tried on 25 Jan 2004 at 10:44
fiulijn (28377) reviewed
Gueuze Black Label from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
7.9/10 — Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Best before date: 03-2002
Light amber color; big head; persistent perlage. Soft nose, woody and acetic; white pepper; harmonious, really interesting. Good balance of tartness, sourness, maltiness; wood, magnesia, light residual sweetness. Thanks to Philippe (Bov) for this bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jan 2004 at 06:39
jhaase (15105) reviewed
Kriek from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
White Label. Sweet cherries dominates the aroma together with a light sourness. Crimson red, slightly cloudy, low creamy redbrown head. Sugary cherry tastenotes, moderate acidity, somewhat artificial - the kids will love it. Light body. Easy drinkable and not really exiting.
Tried on 08 Jan 2004 at 13:12
diabel (1874) reviewed
Oude Lambik from Brouwerij Girardin
22 years ago
7.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
To start, I would like to say that it is quite stupid to rate a lambic, because one can't compare a lambic to another lambic of the same brewery because of the sponteneous fermentation each lambix is different, that's also why they mix several lambic's (good-ones and bad-ones) to get a gueuze with almost the same flavour. But since other raters do rate the lambic's, I will rate them too :) The colour is quite foggy brown, and as usual with lambic's there's no head. Sour aroma with a sweet fruity undertone. In the flavour all the same. This is the beginning of a great beer, but it has to be finished (just waiting for another year). I bought 10 liter of this amazing beer in the brewery in a casc.
Tried from Can on 16 Nov 2003 at 14:14