Bouteille 75cl @ Belgian Winter gathering 01 March 2025 – Tim’s place, thanks Siegfried.
Léger rosé/pourpre, col blanc rosé moyen.
Arôme sur un bouquet floral de pommes qui ressort bien avec un léger apport de myrtille en rétro-nasal. Le tout sur un renfort délicat de lambic qui ne brille pas vraiment pour son assemblage.
Palais est sur une base ‘sourish’ assez marqué avec un apport délicat fruité de la myrtille, finement aigrelet avec un léger retrait de pomme acerbe – comme sur d’autres versions le côté lambic/gueuze se retrouve un peu perdu.

Bouteille 75cl @ Belgian Winter gathering 01 March 2025 – Tim’s place, thanks Siegfried.
BB 31/12/2026 – ce qui semble peu pour une gueuze (peut-être pour préserver le caractère de la lavande,) – je note aussi que cette version propose un assemblage de lambics s’étalant entre 1 et 6 ans, le tout en provenance de chez DeTroch, Eylenbosch et Den Herberg.
Dorée, léger voile, col fin blanc.
Arôme sur un bouquet marqué par la lavande – qu’il faut déjà apprécier pour ne pas y voir allusion avec les produits de nettoyage. Je retrouve en retrait un délicat apport de funk – lambics / gueuze. Sans être brouillon le tout reste bien ficelé.
Palais reste très sec avec un effet funk, malté délicat des divers assemblages – le tout est correcte avec l’apport de la lavande qui est parfumé sans tomber dans les travers qui lui sont parfois associés. Pas certain de la valeur ajoutée de la lavande où cela passe un peu pour les expérimentations style Oud Beersel.

Not getting any Brett here. Over sweet mango. If you served me this as I fermented mango juice, I might cock my head but wouldn’t question you.

Collab between two small beer producing companies located in the same area: Publitasting (lambic blender in Vichte) and Straete Brouwerie (new microbrewery in Waregem), with only 80 bottles made. Apparently not a 'pure' lambic - which would not make much sense anyway as Straete Brouwerie is a regular ale brewer - but a blend of De Troch, Sako and Eylenbosch lambics with a Straete beer, flavoured with a combo of three 'lemony' things: lemonbalm, lemongrass and actual lemon. If this does not tasty lemony, then I do not know what will... Foam creeps out of the bottle neck a few instants after opening, but no gushing. Medium thick, egg-white, tiny-bubbled and tightly knit, slightly irregular but stable head, very slowly and partially breaking over a hazed yellow-golden robe with warmer apricot tinge and some dots of proteins settling at the bottom of the glass. Somewhat introvert nose for this kind of 'versnijbier', at least more introvert than I was expecting, but gradually opening up when warming: unripe plum, dried lemonbalm rather than fresh, wet oak wood, Granny Smith apple, Conference pear, damp haystack, something very lightly perfumey in the way of lemongrass but hardly any actual lemon recognisable, very vague touch of Thai green curry linked with that lemongrass, funky armpit sweat, field flowers (buttercups), touch petrichor, sourdough bread, egg yolk, something earthy deep down below and a sulfuric note. Fruity onset, crisp but the lambic acids clearly softened by the ale, with a mixture of both - generally softly tart, but with a sweetish side as well, reminiscent of yellow plum, apricot, green apple and ripe gooseberry; lively effervescence, with a refined crystalline effect, smooth body, almost a bit creamy. White-bready core, with a deep and mild lactic tartness (white yoghurt) supporting ongoing yellow-green fruitiness but remaining soft all the way, even sweetish, with light woody notes entering in the final stage - along with the added ingredients, but again, in a rather 'blurred' way: I get a vague whiff of lemonbalm because I basically grew up with it, but its typical herbal effect is lacking; lemongrass adds a light fraîcheur but little oriental aroma (though this accent of green curry is still vaguely there); and lemon adds a citric effect at the back, going down the throat where it deposits only a faint - yet noticeable - trace of actual lemon flavour. Bready and earthy notes linger a bit. Very different from what I was expecting: I thought the lambic was going to be more crisp and edgy, but I guess the makers reckoned adding all these lemony flavouring agents to lambic alone (or a blend dominated by it) would render the whole thing too sharp and astringent - so they toned it down into what is perhaps best described as a saison-like 'versnijbier', with a very refreshing character, but also a much softer and creamier character than one would expect. Too much tripel and not enough lambic for me - yet summery, cleanly made and very elegant for sure. However, I am left wondering what a lemon lambic with added lemonbalm and lemongrass in a more outspoken way would taste like. Perhaps Oud Beersel or some other lambic producer will try to find out one day...

Small off-white head over reddish sheen in orange-golden beer. Sour (red) fruit, lemon, lime, horseblanket, farmyard, lactic acid. Sour, lactic acid, unripe blackberries; tobacco smoke in the finish. Complex fruitesters. Puckeringly sour, lipsmacking acidity, medium carbonation, bit slick and ultra-dry. Not a mild one - but good! More of this, please!

Bottle, 750 ml, shared with MiroB and kajser27. Milky red with quickly dissipanting white head. Some caramel and rubber peatish aroma. Fruity, citrus. Some more rubber and peat in taste, juicy and watery. Expected more.