Lambic Discussion Thread

[stupac2]

I drank some old gueuze tonight. In order from left to right: ‘05 OGV, ‘04 OG, ‘02 OGV, ‘08 OG, morning ‘07 Bio, ‘05 label Iris, ‘07 St Valetijns OGV. Overall, stellar bottles with the ‘02 OGV and ‘05 Iris being the highlights. ‘02 OGV was complex as hell and smelled like a fine blue cheese. Cork popped off as the cage was undone. The ‘05 Iris 375 was literally everything that old Iris is supposed to be. I may wake up and this was all a dream, but for now I’m very happy with a good night of drinking.

...Were those stored in a moth breeding facility? Those are some impressively terrible labels.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

...Were those stored in a moth breeding facility? Those are some impressively terrible labels.

Wait until you see pictures of the wine fridge theyre kept in for customers...

 

[FTowne1]

...Were those stored in a moth breeding facility? Those are some impressively terrible labels.

Stored outside at a 46 degree angle.

 

[Marc2]

Wait until you see pictures of the wine fridge theyre kept in for customers...

I am a customer, I would like to see this wine fridge

 

[Gaseous Clay]

I am a customer, I would like to see this wine fridge

in italiano per favore

 

[rrryanc]

Someone took photos of the handout from 3F that details the shipping process, but I can't seem to find it. I think that it was in the Belgium Travel thread.

I used BIAB to ship from 3F, and I also dropped off a ton of beer w/ Kurt in Antwerp to have him ship along w/ the stuff I purchased (and left) at 3F. It wasn't cheap, but everything arrived safely and relatively quickly.

Next time I'll probably either buy less or fly w/ an airline that will allow for an extra piece of checked luggage. Probably the latter.

They've apparently taken down my imgur post, but I did put them up last year: https://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/lambic-discussion-thread.1406/page-643#post-1497998

Others here have covered all the pertinent info, though I have heard they'll let you ship a few other beers at 3f, I've not tried that myself.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Others here have covered all the pertinent info, though I have heard they'll let you ship a few other beers at 3f, I've not tried that myself

2/3 of the shipment has to be 3F and they’ll send the anything else along with it.

 

[primebeer]

...Were those stored in a moth breeding facility? Those are some impressively terrible labels.

Yeah the labels were janky and I was a bit skeptical at first but the bottles were tasting great. The synth cork ‘07 had something a bit off to it but I think that’s to be expected, those are always a bit of a gamble. Really cool to be able to try/revisit some of these so I was very happy.

 

[nathanmiller]

We're flying KLM back to the US, and they only allow 2 checked bags in business class up to 32 kg / 70.5 lb each.

Boooo

 

[waltersrj]

God I can't wait to hit up Drie and Cantillon in just a few weeks. Also plan to murder a charcuterie board with my wife at Moeder and then scuttle over to Nuetnigenough for some proper rabbit saddle...

 

[waltersrj]

Yeah the labels were janky and I was a bit skeptical at first but the bottles were tasting great. The synth cork ‘07 had something a bit off to it but I think that’s to be expected, those are always a bit of a gamble. Really cool to be able to try/revisit some of these so I was very happy.

The labels on some of those bottles almost beat out some Brabantiae labels...those ones are a bit older though

 

[andrewdrinks]

I'm drinking a De Cam Oude Lambiek that I bought locally for an eye-watering $45... and it's absolutely justified, easily the best De Cam straight lambic I've had. It's carbonated like an older gueuze; really cheesy, maybe even some wet dog on the nose; drinks like grapefruit, gruner veltliner, lemon and a touch of pineapple.

I almost don't mind paying that kind of price if this is what I'm getting.

 

[sneakychi]

I'm drinking a De Cam Oude Lambiek that I bought locally for an eye-watering $45... and it's absolutely justified, easily the best De Cam straight lambic I've had. It's carbonated like an older gueuze; really cheesy, maybe even some wet dog on the nose; drinks like grapefruit, gruner veltliner, lemon and a touch of pineapple.

I almost don't mind paying that kind of price if this is what I'm getting.

Nice! Do you know anything about the age?

 

[Digita7693]

Nice! Do you know anything about the age?

Duh, 2009!

 

[teddyarrowhead]

From cavemanlawyer's super awesome 40th birthday pre-funk yesterday. 1998 50th, OGV 2002-2008, 2010, 2012, 2014. There are two 375ml of 2005 with different labels, and 750ml and 375ml bottles of 2008. The 2007 St. Valentijn synthetic cork held up well, but the 2006 synthetic cork did not.

Things generally progressed from super deep horse blanket/sock/soft cheese rind mustiness on the oldest vintages through to sharper, less multi-dimensional funk and brighter acidity on the younger bottles. 2007 (non-synthetic cork) struck the best overall balance between those two realms.

Other than the 2006 synthetic cork bottle just being bad (very oxidized, a bit putrid), 2003 was the real anomaly and the consensus favorite - it had the deep, infinitely complex funky notes you'd expect in older vintages but somehow maintained smooth, lively carbonation and beautifully balanced citrus acidity.

 

[waltersrj]

From cavemanlawyer's super awesome 40th birthday pre-funk yesterday. 1998 50th, OGV 2002-2008, 2010, 2012, 2014. There are two 375ml of 2005 with different labels, and 750ml and 375ml bottles of 2008. The 2007 St. Valentijn synthetic cork held up well, but the 2006 synthetic cork did not.

Things generally progressed from super deep horse blanket/sock/soft cheese rind mustiness on the oldest vintages through to sharper, less multi-dimensional funk and brighter acidity on the younger bottles. 2007 (non-synthetic cork) struck the best overall balance between those two realms.

Other than the 2006 synthetic cork bottle just being bad (very oxidized, a bit putrid), 2003 was the real anomaly and the consensus favorite - it had the deep, infinitely complex funky notes you'd expect in older vintages but somehow maintained smooth, lively carbonation and beautifully balanced citrus acidity.

That’s a killer lineup!

 

[stupac2]

From cavemanlawyer's super awesome 40th birthday pre-funk yesterday. 1998 50th, OGV 2002-2008, 2010, 2012, 2014. There are two 375ml of 2005 with different labels, and 750ml and 375ml bottles of 2008. The 2007 St. Valentijn synthetic cork held up well, but the 2006 synthetic cork did not.

Things generally progressed from super deep horse blanket/sock/soft cheese rind mustiness on the oldest vintages through to sharper, less multi-dimensional funk and brighter acidity on the younger bottles. 2007 (non-synthetic cork) struck the best overall balance between those two realms.

Other than the 2006 synthetic cork bottle just being bad (very oxidized, a bit putrid), 2003 was the real anomaly and the consensus favorite - it had the deep, infinitely complex funky notes you'd expect in older vintages but somehow maintained smooth, lively carbonation and beautifully balanced citrus acidity.

2003 has been brilliant every time I've had it, though it's been a few years now.

 

[bostonvert]

Cracked another late 50's/early 60's bottle from Goossens, its a recycled champagne bottle with the champagne labels still on the bottle! Goossens was a small family operation that stopped in the early 1960's. The sellers father and grandfather supplied many bars and restaurants in Brussels with food and drinks back then and where related to the Goossens family in some way. It would've made sense that they collected used champagne bottles for the brewery to re-use and maybe bottle their last batch?

Eylenbosch at that time was a big brewery and the brewery is still impressive to this day and I don't think they would use old champagne bottles but again no way to be sure about this. I've talked to people who worked at the Eylenbosch brewery but it's pretty much impossible to get any info about that time (50's and 60's). What I' saying is that most of the bottles from that huge lot that Mikkeler sold a while back where probably Eylenbosch but there is no way to be sure and it doesn't really matter!

Interesting beer but it has definitely hit the limit of aging and was dead flat.

 

[stakem1]

Whos gonna be the first one to ask if Cantillon will allow trustees?

 

[matedog]

Whos gonna be the first one to ask if Cantillon will allow trustees?

Not sure how not shipping is going to limit "lambic mules", but whatever, I wouldn't get my hands on it anyway.

 

[matedog]

Whos gonna be the first one to ask if Cantillon will allow trustees?

Also, that is the second and fifth question in the post.

 

[IndianaJones]

This trio must be picked up from the brewery by the purchase within 3 months.

I think this means that it will have to be the person who paid for it, albeit in somewhat confusing English

 

[mvl339]

It would be cool if they did some arrangement with Etre to ship bottles.

 

[Gaseous Clay]

Well there goes my productivity at work for the next few days.

 

[Compton25]

 

[wuntrikpony]

BUT IT'S HIS FAAAAVORITE

 

[Digita7693]

The gif applies to every comment that has and will be posted on their fb.

 

[MrPoopyButthole]

With a last name like that you would think he was more into honey based beverages

 

[steinbbr]

Well there goes my productivity at work for the next few days.

+1

 

[BadJustin]

Well there goes my productivity at work for the next few days.

+1

Check4Change, brahs. Get on my level.