Chapeau Faro

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Faro
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Nice light brown head. Amber colour. Aroma; sweet, vinous, old attic? Taste is primarily sweet. Easy to drink.

Orange color. Sugary aroma, cinnamon, speculaas (sweet Dutch cookie with a cinnamon flavor). Very sweet and syrupy with only a hint of sourness. Cinnamon and grapes.

Sampled alongside Lindeman's Faro. The front label had 3.5% abv, but the back label had 4.75%. Chapeau's label is green & brown with a picture of a beer barrel draped with hops and barley - Lindeman's is much more attractive: all black with stylish art deco white lettering. On opening the Lindeman's had more fizz and an immediate strong plummy aroma. Both settle to a brown copper colour with a fringe of bubbly froth - the Lindeman's bubbles slightly larger and more varied. So far the Lindeman's is ahead. On giving both a good sniff the Chapeau edges ahead with its musty sweet aroma, slightly medicinal, slightly licorice, quite perfumey - parma violets; when swirled extra sweetness rises. The Lindeman's has a slight plum aroma; when swirled some yeasty lambic acid rises. On tasting the Chapeau is the more interesting with its sweet and medicinal taste, followed by a soft sweet licorice flavour at the back. However, it flags slightly when the band aid remains in the mouth along with a cloying, clinging sweey coating of the mouth. The Lindeman's is much simpler, and more direct. It is intensely sweet initially, but that soon settles into a balance between sweetness and acidity. The mouthfeel really pushes the Lindeman's into first place. Chapeau has a soft mouthfeel with a barely noticable and soon gone gentle fizz - quite boring. The Lindeman's however has a soft fizzy mothfeel - very gentle like having baby rabbits tickle your mouth. Weee! The conclusion is that Chapeau is a flavoursome and interesting drink, but lacks the fun of Lindeman's despite the fuller and more complex flavours.

The aroma is sweet with the sharpness from wild fermentation but also with som weird notes; is it some kind of flower, elder flower perhaps? The aroma is not good for a lambic. The color of the beer is amber and slightly unclear with a fine head. The flavor is sweet and sour, but without the bite that lambics have to have. It also lacks the metallicness that is carachteristic for lambics. But instead it the elder flower flavor. And the flavor disappears extremely fast. All in all a thin boring lambic. I am puzzled by the ingredient list - it includes yeast???? in a lambic?

Best before date - May 97. Hazy lemony dark orange. Thin, sticky, big bubbled white head. Barely any carbonation. Sour, oak aroma with notes of grape, candy sugar and horse hair. Initially tart, sweet and a bit chalky. Light bodied. Sweetness overwhelms the Lambic sourness and horsebarn qualities. Lingers on as a sticky, candyish aftertaste. Tart and horsebarn like on each sip, then it fades into the sticky sweetness all too quick. Finishes with a ciderish tartness and flash of its musty, old age. Way too sweet as it warmed. My wife ended up finishing it.

A Geuze with sugar. Disgusting!

One of my first faro’s. Very sweet, a little sour, a little watery.

Dark hazy brown with no head. Light grainy wheat, vinous, plums, raisins and sultanas. Light sour sweeter fruit juice drink body and palate. Very lowly carbonated almost lifeless. Faintly sour sweet raisin juice. Sweet watery finish and after taste. Too much fruit juice character.

funny beer - It starts ang ends awful but between it’s quite alright. Maybe it’s because I great new in the ’faro’ area

A nicely done sour beer whose sweetness balances it well. The finish is predominantly sweet but then this fades leaving a sour overall impression. Nice with dinner. Also a fine Breakfast beer.