Lambic Discussion Thread

[lazerviking]

Yeah I like MP and Cuvee Rene for different reasons, like them both though.

Can we all agree to stop talking about cuvée Rene? Or better yet, bash lindemans mercilessly?

The day that $10/750 gueze dries up I will cry long and hard.

I heard the gold foil means it's orange flavored.

 

[Padraig]

£9 and ships from Hertfordshire: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wicker-Wine-Basket-Pourer-Carrier-/131444168502

Cheers dude. In fact I do have a (somewhat flimsy) wine basket. Just wanting to score one of the traditional shaped lambic versions.

 

[SeaWatchman]

If they weren't made in Belgium they aren't true lambic baskets. Please refer to them as American wild ale baskets.

I'd be willing to bet money that the baskets on the web shop sren't handmade by some little old lady in Belgium.

 

[Doc1]

Basket weaving gifs were subpar, so I settled on this one.

 

[BusinessSloth]

http://belgiuminabox.com/shop/belgi...re/4234-augustijn-yeast-shot-glass-5-cl-.html Lambic yeast shots!

 

[boogercrack]

pajottenbombs and skanks

 

[jmarce]

Pretty sure Etre just shipped my box to CA instead of CT so someone in Santa Barbara might be getting a nice box of lambic soon.

Etre is awesome, they offered to re-ship my order with a FF and 2 3F OG in place of the OOS De Cam OGs I ordered. Never had a chance to try FF so I'm pretty excited.

Awesome thanks man!

Pretty funny that they happened to ship to another TBer

 

[Rowingbrewer1]

Etre is awesome, they offered to re-ship my order with a FF and 2 3F OG in place of the OOS De Cam OGs I ordered. Never had a chance to try FF so I'm pretty excited.

Pretty funny that they happened to ship to another TBer

So is that guy getting to keep the beer?

 

[Dsal891]

The 2009 label bruoscella was bottles in March 2013. Are all of the 2009 bruoscellas bottles at the same time? I was under the assumption that is was 3 years but that would make it just about 4 years.

 

[cparles]

The 2009 label bruoscella was bottles in March 2013. Are all of the 2009 bruoscellas bottles at the same time? I was under the assumption that is was 3 years but that would make it just about 4 years.

It is generally (usually? often?) three years, but according to lambic.info, "The three year rule is only a general time-frame, as bottles of Bruocsella can show as few as two years or as many as four years between vintage date and cork date."

 

[Rowingbrewer1]

The 2009 label bruoscella was bottles in March 2013. Are all of the 2009 bruoscellas bottles at the same time? I was under the assumption that is was 3 years but that would make it just about 4 years.

brew date was likely november or december 2009 making it just over 3 years

 

[andrewdrinks]

When I was last at Cantillon in mid-February, they were bottling GCB from some 2011 barrels (they were also taking pitchers of it from the bottling area and serving it to the people doing the tour, including a huge group of schoolkids who were on a field trip... no, really)

 

[The Red Viper]

When I was last at Cantillon in mid-February, they were bottling GCB from some 2011 barrels (they were also taking pitchers of it from the bottling area and serving it to the people doing the tour, including a huge group of schoolkids who were on a field trip... no, really)

Yeah when I was at De Cam a few weeks ago Karel was giving a tour to a group that seemed to be the Belgian equivalent of the boy scouts, ages varying a lot but clearly some kids in their early teens at the oldest, and they all got multiple glasses of lambic.

 

[Dsal891]

Thanks fellas.

 

[Rowingbrewer1]

the U.S. is one of the only countries that acts like drinking is "the devil", heaven forbid someone even think its ok for them to allow their own teenage children to have a 1/2 glass of beer or wine on special occasions or with dinner even.

We don't hand our kids the keys when they get their learners permit and say take the car, you don't need someone there to teach you, so why would we treat drinking like a taboo and just wait for our kids to figure it out for themselves when they get to college where they will have 0 supervision

 

[RyanG1]

Etre alert!

http://www.bieresgourmet.be/catalog...ed984b460cb9b0b492cd98c589c8b&keyword=eclipse

 

[Doc1]

Boo. In case, however, anyone actually wanted these, get them here rather than Etre. Lol.

http://www.bringonthebeer.com/beers/fiftyfifty-brewing-eclipse-imperial-stout-3-variant-set

 

[JBP]

People still buy Eclipse?

 

[cosmicevan]

So i'm searching for a Brabantiea... mostly because it's as old as i am ('89) and a sweet bottle... anyone seen one kicking around lately? anyone drank one lately? was it good/worth it or old and spent?

also, would it be decidedly easier to get something like a regular geuze from cantillon around '89, or are they both so hard it doesn't matter?

I did an informal poll, and while it isn't a hard and fast rule, there does seem to be significant correlation between label quality and taste - that is, the shittier the label looks, the more likely the bottle is to taste good.

I believe this is also related to how they were stored, but I'm also not the person to ask about this.

everyone's experiences are different and seems common that ther is bottle variation, but i had one probably 2 yrs ago at this point and it was pretty meh. the label was hardly on the bottle at all.

 

[BusinessSloth]

Etre alert!

http://www.bieresgourmet.be/catalog...ed984b460cb9b0b492cd98c589c8b&keyword=eclipse

I am going to send you a handfilled growler of idiot's drool and say it's Vanilla Rye.

 

[Pneill3161]

New '12 Geuze, lots of carbonation and fantastic! Will be stocking up!

 

[user 305963]

First time having this. *******, I said *******. So lemony and tart.

 

[Aaron from the Wood]

I stumbled upon these on my lunch break and picked them up since I've never had De Troch before. Is the Framboise Lambic the same as the old Chapeau series (sweetened lambic), just rebranded? Or is it something new?

 

[Pneill3161]

First time having this. *******, I said *******. So lemony and tart.

One of my favorite fruit lambics, just get ready for Mur, their blackberry one. Coming soon!

 

[SeaWatchman]

I stumbled upon these on my lunch break and picked them up since I've never had De Troch before. Is the Framboise Lambic the same as the old Chapeau series (sweetened lambic), just rebranded? Or is it something new?

It's all just a facelift for the Chapeau stuff. We posted all of the new levels in the .info thread here as well as on the site. I really like the new look of them!

 

[BadJustin]

Saw this in a group on FB. Purportedly in a bottle of Boon. Da fuq?

 

[SeaWatchman]

 

[Aaron from the Wood]

I'm no microbiologist, but those look a lot larger than any single-cell organisms I'd want in my beer.

 

[mrk_d]

I'd drink it.

 

[Der Fuchs]

Saw this in a group on FB. Purportedly in a bottle of Boon. Da fuq?

Those could easily be bubbles in the glass. I have come across similar looking things in beer bottles and that is what it turned out to be. Do these things move around with the liquid? They almost look too clear to be critters.