3

33cl bottle. A clear amber beer with a white head. Aroma of artificial sweet red fruits, strawberries. Taste of intense sweet strawberries, sugar, no beer...

6.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Smell is extremely sugary. Red fruits ( syrup , grenadine ). Taste is full, very sweet, red fruits, sugar, syrupy, red fruit lemonade. Certainly easy drinkable though. OK body and carbo , both are medium. Made to be easely enjoyed by a wide audience. it's a given I find this too sweet and sugary, yet its hard to hate something thats this easy drinkable, and ( all be it chemically, and sweet ) taste -intense. Let's call it a guilty pleasure, and one of those unique times a brewer can be happy I Always rate personally on Brewver, and not on quality or naturality …

4.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Bottle from Carrefour. Pours hazy red with a lasting, small, unstable, frothy, pink head. Aroma of red candy, ripe strawberry, squashed raspberries, elderberry syrup, 'Pomme d'Amour', wheat, sugared fruit yoghurt. Taste is medium to heavy fruity sweet, lots of artificial strawberry flavour, sugared yoghurt and red candy, faint raspberry & sweet cherry underneath but not changing the general character; citric touches of wheat & lemon, only very vaguely bitter. Dryish, sweet, fruity finish, lingering childrens' yoghurt with strawberry flavour, candy & a weird herbal note. Medium body, sticky-syrupy texture, fizzy carbonation. Even as a 'summer drink' this is not refreshing due to the stickiness. Weird move by Lindemans, not adding anything to the beerscape in the 21st century. I think the only positive sidenote is that it's not high in ABV, think Kasteel Rouge etc.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

25cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal in Brussels. F: big, off-white pink, good retention. C: red coppery, hazy. A: bit artificial strawberries, bubble gum, sugary, candy, apple lemonade touch, bit chemical. T: oh sweet sugary strawberry lemonade, almost syrupy feeling, citric acid touch, bit some like herbal, lemonade, medium body and lower carbonation, nice plastic labelled bottle at least that’s all for me, another new pointless beer on Belgium beer market.

2

O kurde, ale cukrzyca... taka o zapachu i smaku sztucznej gumy balonowej, teoche rodem z liquidow owocowych do efajkow... ma ciala niemalo. Sugerowanie, ze to lambik to zbrodnia.

5.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle at Bierpasse Weekend 2019-06-28 Antwerp AR: strawberry jam souse, in flavor, aroma and appearance

6.3

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cloudy red-pink colour with thin head. Aroma and flavour have loads of strawberries. It's very sweet but there's a small amount of acidity that saves it. Served ice cold this is just about doable.

4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2

New summer lambic by Lindemans, from a plastic-coated bottle bought at the Delhaize supermarket in Lokeren. Claims to combine the taste of young lambic with freshly picked cherries but one glance at the ingredients list says it all: this concoction contains strawberry juice, apple concentrate, elderberry juice, 'natural' aromas, apple acid, a Stevia-based sweetener, antioxidant and ascorbic acid... Intricately cobweb-lacing, medium thick, mousy, pale pinkish, thinning but largely stable head, misty vermillion red with deep salmon-pinkish tinge, strings of lively sparkling racing upwards from the bottom of the glass. Strong sweet aroma: pink strawberry ice cream from half a yard distance, red Haribo candy, grenadine, elderberry indeed but in an unnaturally sweet way, industrial red berry jam on a slice of white bread, strawberry-flavoured bubblegum, lemonade, very vague note of bread crust and berry seeds. Very spritzy onset, harshly carbonated with a painful sting like Fanta or something alike, utterly sweet and sticking to the teeth, white sugar, strawberry bubblegum, strawberry ice cream and sticky red candy (of the kind I hate with a passion), supported by a fake sourness of ascorbic acid, creating an overall impression of lemonade mixed with grenadine. An equally artificial apple acid flavour, reminiscent of indeed Lindemans Apple, shows up as well. This, the ascorbic acidity and very sticky sugary sweetness cling to the teeth - and to think I am already suffering from a toothache since a few days - and the middle adds only the faintest, most basic form of cereally maltiness, in a thin and non-supportive way. Elderberry comes to the foreground more clearly in the finish, the only part where a very light, bit bitter and very mildly tannic echo of young lambic can be found, adding a bit of body - but it cannot compete with this massive onslaught of strongly sticky sugariness, ascorbic 'lemonadeness' and fake red berry aromas reminiscent much more of 'dropveters' and other red candy than actual fruit. It is a sad thing to establish that after all the renewed interest traditionally made lambics have enjoyed in the past years, Lindemans looks back a decade or two and thinks it is a good idea to come up with something this ridiculously sweet and lemonade-like. I was silently hoping these experiments with ultra-sweet fruit 'lambics' in the vein of Belle-Vue Extra or Mort Subite Xtreme had become a thing of the past and a part of Belgian beer culture every Belgian beer enthusiast prefers to ignore, but alas, Lindemans, once among the pioneers of sweet fruit lambics, proves me wrong. I cannot physically drink this, but I suppose there are still enough non-beer-minded consumers around that may enjoy this kind of offensive monstrosities abusing the word 'lambic'.

3

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