7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Lambickx, a brand developed by Vanberg & Dewulf (an American import company), has produced a number of different lambic beers so far, partially making use of Boon lambic (under the name 'Private Domain') and partially making use of De Troch lambic. This rating concerns the 2013 De Troch version, bottled in 37.5 cl bottles, one of only 2436 ever made apparently (most of these De Troch blends went in 75 cl bottles). Big thanks to Johan for sharing this relative rarity. Snow white, mousy, quickly opening, bubbly head over an initially near clear, 'metallic' old gold robe with lively sparkling, misty with sediment. Aroma exhibits a lot of damp cellar from aging - in damp circumstances, clearly - mixed with damp haystack, old apple peel, old dry bread crust, rusty oxidation setting in, dried out lemon peel, grass silage, old crumbled cheese, dusty old books. Softly sour onset, lemon peel edge, softish carb but still refinedly sparkling, smooth; old green apple peel soaked in dried lemon flesh and musty cellar, some rotting wood even in the end, damp hay, bread crusty in its base and mildly tannic in the end. Shows that typical bitterish-grassy, weedy and very 'dusty', unique character of De Troch lambic, but the damp cellar circumstances of the past five years of aging have physically crept into the bottle - though to me, having fallen in love with traditionally made lambics a long time ago, this and the dust-covered, worn out label have a certain charm as well.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Jun 2019
at 07:33