Lambic Discussion Thread

[andrewdrinks]

Mikropolis in Copenhagen had all the seasons to go during Mikkeller Beer Week for 400DKK ($59)... think they were all sold by the Sunday, but not before we went through Zomer, Lente and Winter late on the Saturday.

 

[thrashD]

#mefirstbro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

I'm gonna have my grandma and her crew swing by Europe for some goozies

 

[LukeAleTime]

Friend found a seasonal release still turding up shelves in Europe.

I was like and then the hate flowed through my body

Pretty sure it's still on shelves here at $70aud.

 

[ASUBeer]

SeaWatchman

 

[SeaWatchman]

SeaWatchman

You have no idea how badly I want to use #notlambic from the .info Twitter account, but I have to restrain myself.

 

[ASUBeer]

You have no idea how badly I want to use #notlambic from the .info Twitter account, but I have to restrain myself.

What bothers you the most:

1. That its American Wild Lambic
2. One of the lambics is in a pint glass
3. One of the lambics is a sour brown ale?

 

[boogercrack]

What bothers you the most:

1. That its American Wild Lambic
2. One of the lambics is in a pint glass
3. One of the lambics is a sour brown ale?

do you think you could tell a difference in taste/aroma between a pint and a gueuze tumbler?

 

[lazerviking]

What bothers you the most:

1. That its American Wild Lambic
2. One of the lambics is in a pint glass
3. One of the lambics is a sour brown ale?

That someone is thinking of rushing anywhere for Wicked Weed

 

[SeaWatchman]

What bothers you the most:

1. That its American Wild Lambic
2. One of the lambics is in a pint glass
3. One of the lambics is a sour brown ale?

4. That Forgetfu won't let me use #notlambic on Twitter.

 

[Forgetfu]

What bothers you the most:

1. That its American Wild Lambic
2. One of the lambics is in a pint glass
3. One of the lambics is a sour brown ale?

4. That Forgetfu won't let me use #notlambic on Twitter.

He threatened to torch my house for not sending him scans of an article about Bocker #notlambic

 

[SeaWatchman]

He threatened to torch my house for not sending him scans of an article about Bocker #notlambic

*Bockor

 

[Forgetfu]

*Bockor

#whocares?

 

[SeaWatchman]

#whocares?

Everyone will... soon.

 

[ASUBeer]

do you think you could tell a difference in taste/aroma between a pint and a gueuze tumbler?

I doubt it but let's not focus on facts. Let's focus on hate.

 

[RyanG1]

do you think you could tell a difference in taste/aroma between a pint and a gueuze tumbler?

That's the Pisgah Tumbler!

 

[Snarf1]

That someone is thinking of rushing anywhere for Wicked Weed

 

[BusinessSloth]

Let's not focus on facts. Let's focus on hate.

 

[falc0n26001]

Pretty sure it's still on shelves here at $70aud.

WTF?!

 

[MooseLang]

So I'm not sure if it's just me, but a lot of the bottles of Cantillon I've opened that were 2013 or 2014 vintages have had such an intense, funky aftertaste, that they have almost not been enjoyable. I've noticed this especially with Cantillon Classic Gueuze (Belgian Flag), 2010 Bruocsella Gran Cru (2013 bottling), and 2013 Vigneronne.

The Vigneronne was still fruity and tart upfront before fading into this cheesy funkiness, but it was still there. The others I mentioned above were almost overpowered by it. I have had 2012 and earlier Cantillons recently (Fou Foune, LPK, Classic) that were a little more fruity, bright, and tart, and not overly dominated by this particular funk.

I wish I could put the flavor description in words a little better. It's just a musty, cheesy, overwhelming Brett L funk, and it doesn't exactly work for me. Picture how bright and citrusy Drie Fonteinen Gueuze....and this is the exact opposite. Anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about, or am I just insane?

 

[falc0n26001]

So I'm not sure if it's just me, but a lot of the bottles of Cantillon I've opened that were 2013 or 2014 vintages have had such an intense, funky aftertaste, that they have almost not been enjoyable. I've noticed this especially with Cantillon Classic Gueuze (Belgian Flag), 2010 Bruocsella Gran Cru (2013 bottling), and 2013 Vigneronne.

The Vigneronne was still fruity and tart upfront before fading into this cheesy funkiness, but it was still there. The others I mentioned above were almost overpowered by it. I have had 2012 and earlier Cantillons recently (Fou Foune, LPK, Classic) that were a little more fruity, bright, and tart, and not overly dominated by this particular funk.

I wish I could put the flavor description in words a little better. It's just a musty, cheesy, overwhelming Brett L funk, and it doesn't exactly work for me. Picture how bright and citrusy Drie Fonteinen Gueuze....and this is the exact opposite. Anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about, or am I just insane?

I have noticed that Cantillon has incredible batch variation. St. Lam and Fou, for instance, have varied from "eh" to "holy mother of ****!! that's good" for me.

 

[MooseLang]

I have noticed that Cantillon has incredible batch variation. St. Lam and Fou, for instance, have varied from "eh" to "holy mother of ****!! that's good" for me.

Yeah, I have gotten some definite batch variation in the past. But with Cantillon, the variation is usually either "awesome balance of fruit, funky, and tartness" or "sourness covering up all other characteristics." This has been a consistent flavor across a couple batches of different types of Cantillon.

 

[LukeAleTime]

WTF?!

real talk

 

[ASUBeer]

So I'm not sure if it's just me, but a lot of the bottles of Cantillon I've opened that were 2013 or 2014 vintages have had such an intense, funky aftertaste, that they have almost not been enjoyable. I've noticed this especially with Cantillon Classic Gueuze (Belgian Flag), 2010 Bruocsella Gran Cru (2013 bottling), and 2013 Vigneronne.

The Vigneronne was still fruity and tart upfront before fading into this cheesy funkiness, but it was still there. The others I mentioned above were almost overpowered by it. I have had 2012 and earlier Cantillons recently (Fou Foune, LPK, Classic) that were a little more fruity, bright, and tart, and not overly dominated by this particular funk.

I wish I could put the flavor description in words a little better. It's just a musty, cheesy, overwhelming Brett L funk, and it doesn't exactly work for me. Picture how bright and citrusy Drie Fonteinen Gueuze....and this is the exact opposite. Anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about, or am I just insane?

I want all the cheese funk up in my pallet.

 

[ridglens]

So I'm not sure if it's just me, but a lot of the bottles of Cantillon I've opened that were 2013 or 2014 vintages have had such an intense, funky aftertaste, that they have almost not been enjoyable. I've noticed this especially with Cantillon Classic Gueuze (Belgian Flag), 2010 Bruocsella Gran Cru (2013 bottling), and 2013 Vigneronne.

The Vigneronne was still fruity and tart upfront before fading into this cheesy funkiness, but it was still there. The others I mentioned above were almost overpowered by it. I have had 2012 and earlier Cantillons recently (Fou Foune, LPK, Classic) that were a little more fruity, bright, and tart, and not overly dominated by this particular funk.

I wish I could put the flavor description in words a little better. It's just a musty, cheesy, overwhelming Brett L funk, and it doesn't exactly work for me. Picture how bright and citrusy Drie Fonteinen Gueuze....and this is the exact opposite. Anyone else have any idea what I'm talking about, or am I just insane?

Any chance these were frozen or even started to freeze?

i can't comment on the chemicals/flavors from yeast lysis, but it seems that every time i have a bottle that i leave in the freezer too long, leave in my car in the winter, sits on my porch etc and gets even the smallest bit slushy, it has a weird funk and isn't as bright/citrusy. not bad, but definitely not where it usually is.

i've completely stopped shipping stuff in the winter and usually just drink them cellar temp now, haven't had any issues at all.

 

[The Red Viper]

Is there a way to search for lambic bottled on a particular date (someone's birthday or whatever) aside from manually looking through each of the "bottlings" lists for lots of different beers on lambic.info? Even just a spreadsheet somewhere that gathers lots of different beers into one list to save time? I'm trying to find something on my girlfriend's birthday (January 24) or maybe some other special dates and wondering if there's a better way than this. I'm sure I should know the answer already, sorry for any redundancy with past questions from this thread.

 

[Forgetfu]

Is there a way to search for lambic bottled on a particular date (someone's birthday or whatever) aside from manually looking through each of the "bottlings" lists for lots of different beers on lambic.info? Even just a spreadsheet somewhere that gathers lots of different beers into one list to save time? I'm trying to find something on my girlfriend's birthday (January 24) or maybe some other special dates and wondering if there's a better way than this. I'm sure I should know the answer already, sorry for any redundancy with past questions from this thread.

Easy enough. Just put it in quotes:

http://www.lambic.info/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&search="01/24"&fulltext=Search

That said, there is no Jan 24 bottling. To see what it looks like when it works, try Jan 27.

http://www.lambic.info/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&search="01/27"&fulltext=Search

 

[The Red Viper]

Easy enough. Just put it in quotes:

http://www.lambic.info/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&search="01/24"&fulltext=Search

That said, there is no Jan 24 bottling. To see what it looks like when it works, try Jan 27.

http://www.lambic.info/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=default&search="01/27"&fulltext=Search

Thanks, and damn.

 

[The Red Viper]

Note: for anyone else searching for dates this way, be sure to check the European way of writing dates as well as American. There are no results for "01/24" but there is a result for "24/01" which is the same thing--2013 Quetsche. I actually owned a bottle of that which I traded, turns out, d'oh. If anyone has that bottling they wanna trade (for another Quetsche bottling, or whatever) let me know!

 

[Dunt1]

so this is just a random comment but seems valid for this discussion.

i dont think I care for fruited lambic... fou might be the only exception. i obviously dont drink lambic as frequently as most of the people active in this thread but ive dabbled with a pretty good spread and honestly it just doesnt do it for me.

does anyone have any recommendations for bottlings that might change my opinion?

 

[SeaWatchman]

so this is just a random comment but seems valid for this discussion.

i dont think I care for fruited lambic... fou might be the only exception. i obviously dont drink lambic as frequently as most of the people active in this thread but ive dabbled with a pretty good spread and honestly it just doesnt do it for me.

does anyone have any recommendations for bottlings that might change my opinion?

I definitely won't turn down a glass of fruited in front of me, but I have the same general feeling except I love grape lambics. My hierarchy goes straight lambic > gueuze > fruited.