Svesse (15730) reviewed Brett-Elle Oude Geuze (2024) from Lambiek Fabriek 2 weeks ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
(Draft at Akkurat, Stockholm, 4 Oct 2025) Pale amber colour, hazy, with brief head. Fruity nose with notes of citrus, barnyard, bretty yeast, horse stable, grapes and oak wood. Fruity, tart taste with citrus, gooseberries, oak wood, barnyard, funky yeast and a generous acidity in the finish. No bitterness. Medium body, dry. Fresh and tart with lots of character. Very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
0.375 l bottle from 'Het Huis van de Geuze', bottled in November 2023. Sweetish, sourish, rather fruity, gently funky and slightly vinous aroma of overripe lemon, vinegar, hay, gooseberry, brett and white grapes. Slightly sweet, quite sour, rather fruity, gently funky and slightly vinous taste of overripe lemon, gooseberry, hay, white grapes, brett and vinegar, followed by a medium long, fairly tart, slightly woody-dry finish. Medium body, quite astringent and gently effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. A little too citric for my liking, a bit too much vinegar as well, therefore a bit unbalanced.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Juicy & Wild Pluri-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 4 weeks ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
(Draft at Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Brussels, 18 Sep 2025) Red colour with foamy pinkish tan head. Fruity nose with notes of black-currant, blueberries, strawberries and red-currant. Fruity, tart taste with black-currant, red-currant, blueberries, red fruit and a touch of barnyard. Hardly any bitterness. Medium body, dry. Tart and fruity, with lots of berries. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
(Bottle, bottled 07/2020) Golden colour with big, foamy, white head. Fruity, funky nose with citrus, grapefruit, barnyard, herbs, peaches and oak wood. Fruity, tart taste with notes of citrus, grapefruit, barnyard, funky yeast, mixed fruit, oak wood and herbs. Hardly any bitterness. Dry acidic bitterness. Medium body, dry. Solid andwell made gueuze, with a generous acidity. Very nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle) Golden amber colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity nose with notes of citrus, grapefruit, oak wood, grapes and barnyard. Fruity, tart taste with citrus, grapefruit, grapes, oak wood, barnyard, apricots and a dry and tart finish with no bitterness. Almost full body, quite dry. Rich and tasty, with a fresh acidity and a good grape character. Very nice.
Vignale (8386) reviewed Jingle & Wild Noëlle from Lambiek Fabriek 1 month ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Flaska från Hops’N More. Stor, aningen sötare, lätt fatkaraktär med whisky-vibbar. Harmonisk djup smakbild. Mycket gott
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bouteille 75cl, merci Vincent - partagée avec Adrien et Hughe. Anno 2021 et qui était dans le pack exclusif du BxlBeerFest 2021. Massive avec ses 10.5% mais au final, une vraie merveille qui se laisse déguster.
Dorée sur un léger voile, col blanc offrant une belle tenue.
Arôme sur un bouquet assez complexe - et avec les années, ce dernier reste encore très plaisant. Nez funk, finement boisé avec une teneur de la barrique.
Palais montre pas mal de funk avec une agréable finalité boisée quais champenoise - pointe de douceur latente avec un soupçon de poivre ainsi qu'une bonne dose florale. Je retrouve une finalité un peu végétale fraîche de rhubarbe qui accompagne ce caractère funk.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Jingle & Wild Noëlle from Lambiek Fabriek 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Lambiek Fabriek returning to that odd tradition of Christmas geuzes pioneered by De Troch (Chapeau Xmas) in times that were very different for lambic - but doing so in their own brilliant way, namely by blending a dark lambic with a 'normal' one aged on whisky barrels... I recall examples of both dark lambic (a novelty of the 21st century with very few credible representatives, Bogaerden's version being the only one in regular production now) and whisky barrel aged lambic (some of which were delicious, others rather too sweet - but again a very small and very new subgroup), but never the combination, so I think were are in for a ride here... From a 75 cl bottle with cork and crown cap. Medium thick, pale greyish-tinged white, partially opening, bubbly and eventually strongly receding head, misty amber colour with pure and deep orange glow - which is what you get when you blend a dark beer with a blonde one; thin strings of refined sparkling rise up from the middle. Complex and refined bouquet of old-fashioned autumny storage apples, grape skin, oaky vanillin with even actual whisky sweetishness piercing through, sourdough bread, redcurrant, red wine vinegar, Cabernet pomace, ripe red plum, a whiff of pomegranate somewhere (very volatile), gingerbread fleetingly passing by here and there (probably just the sweetness of the whisky again), forest floor, old dusty attic, dried orange peel, medium dry to dry sherry, purple gooseberries, rhubarb, background funkiness ('putteke') and damp hay. Spritzy onset, sharpish carb but still fit for a 'geuze' of sorts - stretching the term to its extremes in this case - with notes of red plum, sour grape (strong), wild apple, redcurrant and unripe medlar, even a touch of unripe persimmon; strong minerality running through this tart autumn-fruity onset and through a smooth bread-crusty base, with lemony and lactic acidity at the edges but also a somewhat 'thickening' toasty element at its core due to the dark malts that went in here. The finish is long and layered, with ongoing lactic sourness (in a red-fruity kind of way) and maltiness, superseded by tannic woodiness and a clear presence of sweetening whisky - somehow whisky always tastes sweet when plunged into the sour depths of lambic. The combination, also including Bretty funkiness (though not too overwhelmingly here), wood and a deep presence of earthy hops, works wonderfully well, with a warming and - more importantly - very vinous character too, as in dry sherry, brandy and pomace; somehow Lambiek Fabriek managed to tie all these knots together and created this lambic with barleywine-esque features, one to indeed sip gently on a chilly night like this one. I reckon the whisky barrel aged lambic is Colon-Elle or its 'unrefined' lambic form, but I have yet to see a 'dark malt lambic' from these guys so I wonder if that other component of this amazing blend is out there somewhere as well - maybe for one of those top restaurants they create exclusive novelties for... In any case, Lambiek Fabriek presents a great piece of work here, refraining from clichés like adding Christmas spicing (the horror) but still managing to create a somehow very Christmassy lambic of doubtlessly huge ageing potential, great complexity and sophisticated taste. I am sincerely impressed.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Juicy & Wild Malvas-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Head gone in an eyeblink; fully hazy peach-coloured beer. Peach (yes), shoepolish, horseblanket, bit of rhubarb. Very delicate flavours of yellow fruit upon harsh lactic acid, which dominated. Finally dry, sour white grapes, even some salicylic acid. Tannine-rich, which stresses the acidburn. Serious acidburn and -thinning, dry-out effect. For the second time in a row, harsh, severe Lambiek Fabriek. Might have to do with the chosen grapes, but LF has done better, more malse lambiek.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Raspberry and cherry. Tart finish--lots of lemon. Pours hazy pink with OK head. Bottle pour at Snally.