Brouwerij Girardin

Microbrewery in Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: Brouwerij Girardin

Established in 1882

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Lindenberg 10, Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, 1700, Belgium
Description
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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8.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
I wish I had read a couple of the previous ratings - especially the ones that told about exploding bottles. Well as it turns this might turn out to be my most expensive beer so far as it cost me a new keyboard - but that did not really bother me that much (old keyboard), it is much worse that most beer of the beer escaped before i could drink it... Well this is what I get from the 126.8 ml i had left: (Black label) Aroma has cobwebs and blue bheese in it (in a good way). Murky orange which looked a lot better in the glas than on my wall. Complex sour tastenotes: Mainly earthy notes topped of with a lactic fruityness (grapes,strawbeerries) the whole beer is wonderfully round and wellbalanced and I sit back with a sour aftertaste that slowly fades away and wish I have had more of this brew.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2003 at 14:29

7.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Pale red colour, rosy. No head. Nose of raspberry jam, and somewhere an aroma which you usually hang in your smallest chamber, after seeing it advertised on ITV by a skipping housewife. Taste : raspberry jam again; including slight acidity, fruit acids, fruit sugars and pectines! Very flat, some stickiness - from the pectine? Aftertaste is raspberry flavour again. Disappointing. Could be so much more, with just a bit more lambic character (and somewhat less... perfume, let's call it)
Tried on 13 Mar 2003 at 13:21

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
This is one of the best Krieks i’ve had. Not too sweet, definitely oak-conditioned. Complex, well balanced. Very good kriek!
Tried on 10 Mar 2003 at 15:48

9.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
BLACK LABEL (=unfiltered)! Goden colour with slight orangey shine. For a gueuze, remarkably stable head, dirty-yellow. Nose of 'horseblanket', fresh flowers, sulphur, green apples and drying hay. Very dry is the immediate impression, yet carbonisation all over the place - together with the tannines, the onslaught on the front teeth is complete, no tartar left - if I weren't a dentist myself, mine would be out of work, now. The real taste is purely retronasal; citrus, pineapple, green apple, lime, lactic (no acetic). Yet there is a strain of sweetness - like in 'speculaas' grain-biscuits Belgain style. Mouthfeel is undistinguishable from the taste, as above. Close my eyes, and I'm in a horse stable, the animal still steaming from the exercise, closeby the summerharvest of still hot grain, apples, straw is being stored. Words of my vocabulary are not sufficient. Would I have smoked pot in my younger days, I might have found them. Then, I have not.
Tried on 05 Mar 2003 at 13:44

7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 9 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Rerate 24/10/03: Amber colour, little pale. A lot of bubbles and a white head. You can smell the aroma when you are filling your glass. Sour aroma. The flavour was quite flat. Little sour, bitter and sweet, but no dominating flavour as a Cantillon.

Treble colour. Very disgusting aroma. I don' know why, but the aroma was really ... bad. Bitter, sour, very good gueuze aroma. Bitter-sweet palate. Excellent Gueuze-lambic
Tried from Can on 03 Feb 2003 at 15:40

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Black label: Cheesy aroma. Not as oaky and woody as i prefer lambics to be. Quite sweet taste. A bit disappointing.
Tried on 20 Aug 2002 at 13:45

9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Deep burgundy. Dry and balanced. Light aroma of sour cherries. Reminiscent of a Cabernet Sauvignon. The draught version appears more fruity, and is even better than the bottled one.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Apr 2002 at 01:21

9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9
Pale amber coloured. Extremely complex with balanced, tart acidity. One of few beers that combines being both very flavourful and very refreshing.
Tried on 19 Mar 2002 at 16:10

6.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Clear red. Rather dry with sweetish aroma of very ripe raspberries. .......
Tried on 25 Feb 2002 at 16:43

9.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 10 Flavor 10 Texture 10 Overall 10
Golden-amber with chill haze. Complex aroma of leather, pears, peaches, feet, dust, old wood and farmhouse cheshire. Bracing acidity and extreme complexity of wood, cheese, acids, grapefruit, kumquat, pommelo and old saddle. Insane complexity. Brilliant balance. Balls front intensity. Fucking amazing.
Tried on 13 Nov 2001 at 00:10