Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
11/2018 @home - 37,5cl bottle from Malt Attacks. Clear orange, fading bubbles head. Nose is lemon, bit hay, bit green apple. Taste is lemon, green apple, sourness, bit wood. Basic but nice anyway.
anstei (3639) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, courtesy of SinH4. Pours unclear yellowish amber. Aroma is citric funk, leather. Body is medium, cheesy, sweaty socks, funk, fizzy carbonation. Not overly complex, but pleasant and not simple either. Good!
SinH4 (15499) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Hazy orange-golden color with white head. Aroma is authentic Lambic funk, a bit bready. Taste is green onions, lemony, dry finish. Silky mouthfeel with high carbonation. Lemon peel in the back. Interesting!
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Blandede Belgiske Bolscher, Ratebeer Odense, 2018. Pours Hazy Golden with a creamy White head. Good funk, manuer, sesam, barnyard and lemon peel. Funky Dry finish.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle @ Blandede Belgiske Bolscher, Ratebeer Odense, 2018. Hazy golden with a big white head. Funky aroma with classic lambic character, especially grapefruit, flowers and herbs. Dry, funky and fruity flavour with a chalky mineral note.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Lambiek from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Lambiek Fabriek is slowly achieving maturity, having been in existence long enough to possess lambic than can be qualified as ‘oude’; since I’ve been following them from the start – considering how rare it is that a new lambic producer is set up – and since the true nature and scope of a lambic becomes apparent only at older age, I was eager to taste this. The tasted sample, from tap at Beerlovers Bar in Antwerp, was 20 months old. Some loose, off-white bubbles form on the edges with pouring, but expectedly these disappear quickly; hazy peach blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge. Lovely, quite distinct but in any case very convincingly “Senne lambic” nose of old cheese rind and herb cheese, spice bread even, musty cellar, dried lemon zest, green plum, sour apples, bread crumbs, damp straw, crackers and a subtle and volatile sulfuric touch (‘putteke’). Estery, softly sour onset, nowhere sharply acidic but still fully ‘drained’ by long-stretched lactic tartness, with notes of sour grape, green plum and green gooseberry, obviously ‘flat’ mouthfeel, very bready middle, a bit ‘dusty’, old cracker and bread crumbs with that old dried spice and cheese rind effect returning in the end, supported by a late, dim bitterishness from old hops and an earthy touch. Still in development, this middle-aged lambic already shows promising signs of its own personality, not an unimportant accomplishment in this particular beer family; after Brett-Elle and Fontan-Elle, this will definitely find its way into an even more ‘mature’ geuze once it has reached an age at which oxidation truly begins to shape its taste and aroma. Already very pleasantly drinkable for sure, can withstand comparison with lambic of a similar age by most of the other producers.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Very foamy, whipped eggwhite-like head, unbelievably stable for lambic, over finely carbonated pale copper beer. Flowery, citrusflower, buttermilk, diary, slightly aged wheat aromas. Citrussy, lemony, faint farmyard flavours. Lipsmacking acidity. Despite acidthinning, nowhere lean, there's a quite present malt/wheat kick. Quite carbonated for a gueuze. Very good gueuze, but not a patch on their 2 yr lambic.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Lambiek from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Draught 20 months old lambic Head gone in seconds, hazy orange-amber beer. Bready, funky, wild-yeast filled nose, Bretts and maltsugars mixed. Flowery, slightly sourish, farmyard yet fruity. Again bready, lots of restsweetness (despite the age!), yet in 100% thanks to the already formed acids. This is truly how lambic ought to be. Giving a 5/5 would have been pushing it, but how could you do better? This blender is a real surplus for the lambicscene.
77ships (14506) reviewed Fontan-Elle from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
Thank you! JorisPPattyn. Sampled – good amount 750 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Orange, solid creamy amazingly lasting white head; Nose is grainy lively tropical fruit, apricot, passionfruit. Taste is amazingly sweetish passionfruit, tropical fruit I recently tried & cannot name, oily grainy, cereal, high carbonation that works amazingly well, flowers, guava,… Surprisingly awesome. I am currently really surprised by Lambiek Fabriek, their products are so all over the place from dirty to disappointing to amazing, to solid to decent etc. Hope they finetune it to amazing over time, this one is awesome & their best yet.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Brett-Elle Oude Geuze from Lambiek Fabriek 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
375ml bottle. A clar deep golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of tart yellow fruits, grapes, brett, stone fruits. Taste of tart stone fruits, apricot, peach, grapes, brett. Very nice!