Kwee-peer-appel-Quince Lambic
Geuzestekerij De Cam in Gooik, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Fruit Regular|
Score
7.23
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours unclear, yellow. No real head. Scent is very full, super intense quince. Lacks balance, but does pack a (fruity) punch. Quince juice with a lambic funky backbone (hidden) . Nice, but lacks complexity, balance, and 'beer-ness' , its close to straight up Quince juice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
10 June 2023. At 15de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, mom, dad, et al.
A: clear golden, thin, off-white head.
A: old pear & apple, quince, dust, musty cellar (specifically the stairs while you're ascending them).
T: sour quince, apple, dust, funky cheese & vinegar.
F: tart quince, plum, wood & dust.
P: medium body, slick texture, average carbonation.
Refreshing but a tad too musty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled as De Oude Cam Kwee-peer-appel-Quince Good just off-white head over clear, well-carbonated copperish yellow beer. Chalk, horseblanket, watercolour paint, Bretts, lemonpeel. Lemony lambic, with sour apple. Lactic acid. No or hardly any trace of the (very sweet) quinces. Tart & dry. Lipsmacking acidity, acidthinning and light -burn. Refreshing. Quite restrained on fruit, good lambic. Txs to Stef!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Taster at BXLBeerfest. Yellow hazy color, small white head. smells funky, earthy, peppery, tea like notes, light Quince. Nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation. tastes of quince, funky, earthy, wood, stone fruits, peppery. Finishes dry and lightly to medium sour with notes of Quince, earthy and funky notes. Lovely, very nice one, lovely beer
8,7,8, 8, 8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
New, limited fruit lambic by De Cam, confusingly named "kwee -peer-appel-quince", which translates as "quince-pear-apple-quince", but only containing (locally grown) quince and no pears or apples; I guess the confusion comes from the fact that in Dutch, the quince fruit is often referred to as 'kweepeer' and, less frequently, 'kweeappel', being related to both pear and apple. From a 37.5 cl bottle with cork and muselet. Highly pressurized, but no gushing, apart from a bit of foam creeping out of the bottle neck seconds after opening. Thick, small-bubbled, egg-white, regular, densely moussy and very stable head, remaining closed for a long time over a misty, warm pale orange-tinged apricot blonde beer, with bits of darker plant material (pieces of quince, I assume) floating around everywhere, being picked up by the carbon dioxide, carried to the top and then sinking again to the bottom of the glass. Very apple- or indeed quince-forward nose, lots of actual quince (as in quince jam), Granny Smith apple, Conference pear and small cooking-apples, homemade dry cider, freshly cut grass, kefir, goat cheese, old wood, bitter weeds, unripe non-sweet pineapple, sour grape skins, raw and fresh lemon pith, something rubbery (as is often the case in quince lambics), beeswax, green tree leaves. Acidic onset, malic acid working together with the lambic's natural acids, with a very tart but still refreshing, very crisp result, like biting on a piece of Granny Smith apple with lemon juice sprinkled over it; lively carbonation, supple body. Crystalline, bright 'green' tartness penetrates the entire palate, with a softer fruity note of yellow plum and gooseberry lurking around the corner; wheat-bready base, woody tannins but of course much more tannic effect from the quince peel, with that typical wax- or rubber-like element returning in the end. Blossomy and green leaf aspects here and there too, accentuating the crisp, spring-like, 'green' and 'botanic' overall effect; quite juicy in the end especially for only using quince - one might get the impression that softer, sweeter apple and / or pear has been used here after all. A tad crude perhaps, like their apple lambic, but with a bit of finetuning, this very crisp, yellow-green, 'crunchy' lambic could perhaps become a classic in a growing family of quince, apple and pear lambics produced by the lambic revival in recent years. Bears a potential of true beauty, but this beauty is still somewhat hidden in a rough, green husk; I liked the other new De Cam, with apricots, better than this one, but I guess stonefruit lambics are more my cup of tea than apple and quince lambics (I am not a great cider lover either, for that matter...). Solid fruit lambic, in all, but could do with a tad more elegance. In any case the quince lovers are treated with a huge amount of quince flavour here, that much is certain.