7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottled (from Alko Web). Deep golden colour, small white head. Aroma is nice tartness, some wood and mild sour fruits. Flavour is nicely floral and fruity wooden tones with quite nice sweetish tart tones.

6.5

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

25cl bottle from eDrinks, Tallinn. Pours clear amber with a small, off-white head. Fruity, funky and refreshing. Quite pleasant.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottled. Hazy orangeish golden colour, with a small head. Aroma is fruity and tart wooden tones. Flavour is ripe fruits, elderflower, some tartness, mild herbal and lemongrassy notes. Somewhat dry, but very refreshing.

3.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 2.5

Bottle at home, reddish beer, small head. Aroma is chemical strawberry, sweet, sugar, fruit. Taste is the same, chemical, sweet, fruit, strawberry, no too sweet and too weird. drainpour.

7.6

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

Dark blond colour with thin head. Aroma has oak, leather, lemon, overripe apples. Touch of cork too (my bottle was over filled and the cork was soaked). Pleasant tartness balanced well against the dryness coming off the barrels.

7.5

Day 1 of my Brew Cavern advent calendar.

7.8

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

The 2019 edition of the yearly Lambikstoemper geuze, blended by the Lambikstoempers for their 20th anniversary, an old school club of lambic lovers from the Senne Valley – in this case using only Lindemans lambics of (obviously) different ages. Off-white, fizzy, quickly breaking, irregular ‘ring of foam’, pure golden blonde robe with ochre-ish tinge and lively visible sparkling, clear at first, misty later on and murky-beige in the end. Aroma of green gooseberries, wood sorrel, old dry wood, lots of dusty shelves, old oxidized dry white wine, dusty attic, old brown cardboard even, some dry sherry, touch of chlorine but only in the end. Tart, dry onset, strong Granny Smith apple effects alongside green gooseberry and unripe green plums, lively carbonated though not in a sharp way – and actually a tad less effervescent than I am used to from oude geuze. Supple bready core surrounded by drying lactic tartness and ongoing green fruit acidity, becoming ever more woody and ‘dusty’ in the end, with that old oxidized white wine effect returning and crisp green plum-like astringency; bitterness remains altogether soft. Not the most complex or ‘full’ geuze I had – a ‘basic’ kind of blend to be honest, and even if that typical Lindemans softness (‘malsheid’) and elegance are there, even their own Cuvée René offers somewhat more depth and colour than this one. Feels a bit dusty and oxidized for only three years of age, too; perhaps – I bought this as a vintage bottle earlier this year – not too well stored by the previous owner?

7.4

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

Lindemans Lambic 1 Year at Goblet, falling squarely at the edges of Oude and Jonge. Very hazy orange-golden body, small head at first. Aah, under Jonge it goes. Hay, horseblanket, wild yeast aroma, all soft, lightly citric. Taste... Lean, citric, wild, tart, fresh, pleasant. Very good!

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

750 ml bottle, shared with my son, from Vinmonopolet Stavanger Verksgata. ABV is 8%. Golden colour, large white head. Lovely aroma of farmhouse / brettanomyces, aged white wine, oak and lemons. Moderate carbonation in the glass. Medium sour flavour of brettanomyces and oak.