Official Lambic.Info thread

[Os]

Like here, for example: http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Gueuze-...6?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_123&hash=item20fce0b9c6
Get dat Belgian eBay account glassware peeps!

I tried translating that page and it says "Sends might not United States"

 

[Quatz]

Like here, for example: http://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Gueuze-...6?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_123&hash=item20fce0b9c6
Get dat Belgian eBay account glassware peeps!

Still got sold for 40€, damn!

 

[BusinessSloth]

Still got sold for 40€, damn!

That's nothing honestly. I've seen the bidding go as high as $110.

 

[Quatz]

That's nothing honestly. I've seen the bidding go as high as $110.

That's pretty crazy for a glass that young but this one was only shipped within Belgium so it doesn't surprise me that it would go for that much internationally.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Couple new bottle dates;
GCB 21/4/2015
Iris 18/12/2014

Added to the log on the site, finally!

 

[csano]

Do you guys have the lambic year codes up anywhere on the site? It seems like this varies from producer to producer, but I guess it would help in decoding some of the bottle dates. I'm particularly interested in Lindeman's at the moment.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Do you guys have the lambic year codes up anywhere on the site? It seems like this varies from producer to producer, but I guess it would help in decoding some of the bottle dates. I'm particularly interested in Lindeman's at the moment.

No but it's something I need to get on the site for Lindemans becausesomeoje else here did figure it out and I confirmed it with a contact at the brewery. The following example:

LD04NGC

L is for Lindemans
D is fourth month (April)
04 bottling day of the month
N is the year A=1 N=14
GC is Gueuze Cuvée

Lindemans seems to go back and forth between simply stating the date and using that code sometimes. Not sure why.

 

[Pneill3161]

New cantillon date
RdG 29/4/2015, naked lady euro

 

[SeaWatchman]

New cantillon date
RdG 29/4/2015, naked lady euro

Size?

 

[SeaWatchman]

Questions for Lambic producers!

Forgetfu and I are going to Belgium next week for a site research trip. We are meeting with brewers and blenders, visiting cafes and pubs, and photographing everything we can.

We’re starting to gather questions that we hope to ask, and we'd like your input. What questions would you like answered that are not already covered on lambic.info. Need clarification on bottle dating or cork markings? Want to know about a discontinued beer? Production questions?

We have created a simple google spreadsheet for you to add questions. What information would you like to know?

Naturally, there may be some questions they don't have an answer for, and others they don't want to answer. We may not ask all of the questions that you add, but we will use this information to help shape our conversations. Thanks for your help!

 

[Gestalten]

Not sure if this is something you'd want to go into on the site, but it's pretty interesting...

When I was in Belgium for TdG, I had the opportunity to talk with Gert Christaens at some length about the current state of Lambic. At some point we touched on the next generation of successors, and he mentioned the situation at Hanssens being somewhat difficult. He seemed to indicate that Sidy and John were doing Hanssen's as a sort of side business, not by choice but due to a promise made to Jean. The story is that Jean had a pretty hard time of it running Hanssens, and wished that no one in his family ever do it as their sole source of income. When Sidy and John took over, they were made to make a series of promises (there may even be a binding contract) that they would never do Hanssen's as their primary business, and that they would not modernize (within certain parameters).

The difficulty for the next generation is, the same contract would fall to them. So anyone looking to take over Hanssen's will have to run it as a side project, and pretty much as it is run today.

Gert also seemed to indicate that some in Belgium would like to see Hanssen's modernize some to stop some of their beers from becoming sour. (I'm using sour in the Dutch colloquial sense here, meaning "vinegar-like". The tartness we often enjoy in Lambics is denoted by the word "rins".)

 

[Pneill3161]

Size?

750

 

[csano]

No but it's something I need to get on the site for Lindemans becausesomeoje else here did figure it out and I confirmed it with a contact at the brewery. The following example:

LD04NGC

L is for Lindemans
D is fourth month (April)
04 bottling day of the month
N is the year A=1 N=14
GC is Gueuze Cuvée

Lindemans seems to go back and forth between simply stating the date and using that code sometimes. Not sure why.

Thanks, Adam. I had that much figured out. I was looking for something along the lines of how the years match up to the letters. When did the cycle start? What is this years' letter for Lindemans?

 

[SeaWatchman]

Thanks, Adam. I had that much figured out. I was looking for something along the lines of how the years match up to the letters. When did the cycle start? What is this years' letter for Lindemans?

Well it's gotta be a 26 year cycle I imagine. Though I haven't seen any, I imagine this year's letter is M. I will ask when we're there next week to see. I confirmed with them before that N was 2014 and someone a bunch of pages ago somewhere confirmed a 2010 letter, so we just worked backwards.

But yeah, "What do your dating codes mean" is on the list for them for sure.

 

[Snarf1]

Ask Frank Boon how he rocks the turtleneck so hard.

 

[Podunkparte]

tosh

 

[sacrelicio]

tosh

Oh I get it now. Gobshite

 

[mikecharley]

Got this alert on ba today. My offense was posting about lambic.info, no idea where the "crying" came into play...

 

[Pneill3161]

Not sure if this RdG label is much different then the others listed, but I didn't see any with the dates and bottle numbers like this one.

 

[SeaWatchman]

Not sure if this RdG label is much different then the others listed, but I didn't see any with the dates and bottle numbers like this one.

That's the very first bottling of RdG. Jean posted a picture of him opening one recently on Facebook.

 

[Pneill3161]

That's the very first bottling of RdG. Jean posted a picture of him opening one recently on Facebook.

Someone brought that into my brothers bar to share with everyone. Damn, I wish I wasn't home sick last night.

 

[regularjohn]

There were still some webshops selling the Fountain as late as 2011. So it's not as "old" and "vintage" as most people think.

it is old. friend got one directly from a collector in belgium and he owned it for a long time some can date back before the 90s possibly 80s and it was their main glass for a long time but it's hard to narrow down how many times it was produced and if you do have one in possession its definitely not easy to know the exact year it came out. even if it was available up to 2011 i think the value will always go up because at this point its not easy to come by. i see quite a few of the script glasses pop up on ebay but the fountain one rarely does

 

[mjohnson171]

it's hard to narrow down how many times it was produced and if you do have one in possession its definitely not easy to know the exact year it came out. even if it was available up to 2011

This. I'm sure 3F has used this glass design for the past 20 years. It would be impossible to tell if someone has a glass from 1990 or 2010. No one knows how many were made and when.
Although it's probably safe to say there were multiple runs of this glass in the last 20 or so years. Any more detail than that is probably near impossible to tell.

I personally believe that there's not a ton out there and are pretty hard to come by now. A few years ago it was a different story and I'm still kicking myself for not snagging one back then.

 

[stupac2]

i see quite a few of the script glasses pop up on ebay but the fountain one rarely does

I think that's mostly because they don't sell for as much. Right now pretty much any Belgian who cares to look can see that those script glasses easily pull in 100+ Euro for something that they can find at thrift shops for <1 Euro. So of course that's what's selling. I wouldn't be surprised to see Fountains tumblers doing the same thing, if people keep paying absurd amounts for them.

I'm just glad I got my scripts before this **** really took off. People with more money than brains ruin everything.

 

[JulianB1]

I'm glad I don't drink Cantillon regularly enough (and certainly not at home) to care about acquiring any of the glassware. I really would like to get one of those 3F wine glasses with the big 3 on it sometime, but I'm not about to break the bank for one.

 

[Os]

I'm glad I don't drink Cantillon regularly enough (and certainly not at home) to care about acquiring any of the glassware. I really would like to get one of those 3F wine glasses with the big 3 on it sometime, but I'm not about to break the bank for one.

those are readily available on internet shops....

 

[stupac2]

I'm glad I don't drink Cantillon regularly enough (and certainly not at home) to care about acquiring any of the glassware. I really would like to get one of those 3F wine glasses with the big 3 on it sometime, but I'm not about to break the bank for one.

Yeah if you want the 3F wine glass you can throw one into any etre box for basically like 5 euro extra. If you don't want to do that I'm sure they're not too hard to trade for, since they're so easily replaced.

 

[SeaWatchman]

I've tried to do some research on the Fountain Glass, however it's been very difficult to confirm anything. However based on what I recall the "3" glass replaced the Fountain around 2010. There were still some webshops selling the Fountain as late as 2011. So it's not as "old" and "vintage" as most people think.

it is old. friend got one directly from a collector in belgium and he owned it for a long time some can date back before the 90s possibly 80s and it was their main glass for a long time but it's hard to narrow down how many times it was produced and if you do have one in possession its definitely not easy to know the exact year it came out. even if it was available up to 2011 i think the value will always go up because at this point its not easy to come by. i see quite a few of the script glasses pop up on ebay but the fountain one rarely does

Came across this photo at the brewery yesterday, and the date on the barrel is 1977, and the photo paper said 1978 on the back of it.

 

[regularjohn]

Came across this photo at the brewery yesterday, and the date on the barrel is 1977, and the photo paper said 1978 on the back of it.

thats a great picture! i saw most of your photos via facebook but are you gonna upload them to the site soon or on here?

 

[SeaWatchman]

thats a great picture! i saw most of your photos via facebook but are you gonna upload them to the site soon or on here?

Yeah, there are like... a million or so pictures that we've got to get through and work on. They'll trickle out little by little as we add/update pages but I've been trying to update most of the best ones that I took with my phone.