Geuzestekerij De Cam Aardbei Lambic

Aardbei Lambic

 

Geuzestekerij De Cam in Gooik, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

Lambic Style - Fruit Regular
Score
6.95
ABV: 5.5% IBU: - Ticks: 7
Strawberry lambic. 1000 kg strawberries on 1500 liter lambic
 

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7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

0,375l bottle at home. BB 2030/08. amber very murky color, medium big white head with some particles. smells of strawberries, mango, peachy, lots of exotic fruits, lovely smell. full body, bubbly carbonation. tastes of strawberries, peaches, stone fruits, some soda, bit citric, grassy, earthy. finishes bit dry and light to medium sour with notes of strawberries, peaches and some fruit purree. interesting one, lots and lots of fruit puree in this. pretty good, should be very interesting how this one ages.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2022 at 16:54


8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Gushing (lambic???) to yellowish head over fully muddy orange beer. Fruit (strawberry indeed), hay and horseblanket a mile out (with the gushing). Spritzy pearling. Quite sour flavour, strawberry again obvious, if discreet. Mild, if quite sour fruitesters & farmyard flavours. Some lemon, banana. Sharp, thinnish body, no visible carbonation, refreshing. Definitely very nice, if a bit nondescript for De Cam.

Tried from Bottle at Beerlovers Bar on 20 Mar 2022 at 08:39


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Opens with a small pop, but quickly rising foam. Hence the pour in the glass is quite foamy as well, hazy yellow. Foam fades rather fast, after all it's still a lambic. Scent is full on funk, wood, strawberry is recognizable but not overpowering. Taste is quite sharp, loads of tartness (lemon acid, lactic acid) with a dry finish (astrigent) , stawberry is fairly mild all the way trough. Very high (too high) carbonation. Has a certain slickness. Very decent, but I must admit I expected more.

Tried on 30 Sep 2021 at 11:16


7.5
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Using new fruits and combinations of fruits is one of those driving forces behind the ‘lambic revival’ of our current time and De Cam has shown considerable effort in this field in the past few years; now Karel Goddeau presents us with this strawberry lambic, which should be interesting to compare with the only true (modern) classic in this segment, Hanssens’ Oudbeitje. De Cam’s version, from a 37.5 cl bottle with cork and muselet, does not start off well: huge gushing, spouting out of the bottle as soon as the cork is removed and continuously flowing out minutes after that – and even though I was prepared for this, I could not avoid losing about ¼ of the content to the sink. Maybe I should have kept and served it cooler, but I like my lambics (and other artisanal beers) at cellar temperature - tops. Initially foamy, yellow-white, thick head quickly collapsing into nothing; murky deep peach blonde robe with cognac-amber hue and small yellowish dots of strawberry flesh (and seeds) sticking to the wall of the glass, as with some hand-squeezed fruit juice. Aroma does have a lot of strong fresh sweet strawberry at least initially – it fades quickly, leaving room for impressions of green strawberry plant leaves, thistles and other green garden weeds, cucumber peel even, unripe nectarine, rhubarb, green plum, raspberry vinegar, lime zest, withering grass, apricot kernel, dirt, urine. Acidic onset, very lemony, combining with that strawberry aroma into something strawberry vinegar-like almost, puckering, but with the strawberry still offering a touch of balancing sweetishness; the carbon dioxide has flown away with the foam, as the mouthfeel is as good as flat – in itself not a problem for a fruit lambic, at least not for me. Wry unripe stonefruit, green leaves, sorrel, cucumber peel and minerals accompany a bready core, severely dried by a combination of fruit acidity and lactic acidity; more yeastiness and ‘dirtiness’ in the end, aspect of strawberry seed (or rather, the actual fruits biologically speaking) tannins, earthy, tart and dirty finish, maintaining that acidity but the strawberry factor offers a touch of background sweetness also in this last stage. Not a bad idea, the basic flavours are interesting though perhaps too ‘green’ and leafy for many; rather crudely executed, however, like other recent De Cam fruit lambics. I have the impression whole strawberry plants, leaves and stalks included, went in here… I think I still prefer Oudbeitje, as fickle as it may be.

Tried on 15 Sep 2021 at 10:28


Tried on 03 Sep 2021 at 18:10


7

Hapu, maasikas, happeline, nats magus, pärmine, maltsane, funk. Pole paha, aga mitte päris minu teema.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Sep 2021 at 18:09


5.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

16/V/21 - 37.5cl bottle, shared @ De Cam brewery, BB: L2030.8 (2021-414) Thanks to Erwin & Meeki for sharing today’s beers!

Little cloudy orange beer, no head. Aroma: lots of brett, yoghurt, diacetyl, very funky, weird, overripe strawberries, earthy, weird, vinegar notes. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: very acidic, juicy, bit lemony, pretty bitter, ripe to overripe fruits, funky, rather unpleasant bitterness. Aftertaste: weird, bitter, very sour, some strawberry jam, decent, but as most strawberry sours not my favourite.

Tried from Bottle at Geuzestekerij De Cam on 16 May 2021 at 14:00