Chapeau Faro

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

My first faro, completing all 72 beer styles at last! Pours a clear brown/red, bubbly, white head. Aroma is funky, apple, candi sugar (in this beer, this is where the characteristic funk is most prevalent). The flavor is almost the equivalent of apple juice, super sweet, light tartness, like a green apple tartness. The finish is apple juice sweetness again, with a small contribution of funk. medium body, sticky. I’d like to try another faro that may have better achieved the balance between sweet and funk, but it took so damn long to find this one. I’m enjoying this beer well enough, but if I had to drink more than one it would probably give me cavities.

This was my first Faro, so I have no idea how it relates to the style. The beer pours a hazy brown color with a white head. The aroma is sugary with a lemon tartness. The flavor is a nice mix of lemony tartness and sweetness. Very similar to sweet-tart candy. Thin mouthfeel and medium carbonation. An interesting beer. I doubt I will try too many more faros due to limited availability, but I thought this was a pretty good beer.

Pours brown, aroma is sour with notes of pencil shaving, mostly flat, the flavour is dull and offensive, NOt very good. I’m not sure if this is how Faro is supposed to taste but if it is than I am pretty disapointed.

Bottle. Drove this bottle of Batshit over 1800km. Apparently JUST for the style tick for Faro. I can’t believe there is a Faro rated lower than this! Nose is pencil shavings, tart fruit, brett, and good, old-fashioned table sugar. Like from the sugar dish. Sweet, chemically, sugar. Palate is almost undrinkable. I’d rather have a snifter full of Buckley’s. Candy, raisins, spolit wine, and good god the raw, unrelenting sugar! So sweet it hurts, I cry for the beer this might otherwise have been.

(gn-btl gn/br-lbl, Brourij De Troch in Wambeek, 12.7oz, 4.7%)

lct-br, thin-ring-hd,

sour-wine §cider-vinegar aroma,

sour/sweet T1, sweet cidery T2, eff sour fruity §tart(granny smith) T3.
very drinkable, great with food.

Pours a burnt orange with no head. The aroma is decent, straight forward, with stink feet, stank, and lacto. The flavor is unbearably sweet! This tastes like pure sugar water with a hint of sourness, This is pretty gross... Never again.

Pours an unattractive brownish orange color with no head. "Garbage juice" was a common description of the aroma at the tasting where this beer was had. Garbage juice and herbal bitters, maybe some hobo. Oddly intriguing nonetheless. Flavor is sugary fruit punch with only a hint of the gross herbal note from the aroma. Why?

25cl bottle thanks to irishboy. This momentous beer marks the final installment in my quest for every beer style category on ratebeer. There is a reason that this one is so hard to get; it sucks, therefore no one bothers distributing it anywhere near me. Downright muddy, murky looking amber color with a small head. The aroma is like some weird veggie salad that has rotted a little, or the juice that collect at the bottom of the garbage can. Well, its not *that* bad, but it’s far from pleasant. The flavor is certainly better, with a big candy sweetness and herbal, almost bitters-like flavor. There is some tartness in a vaguely pickle juice fashion. Light bodied, mildly fizzy. I’m sure the more renowned lambic brewers make better versions of the style than this garbage, and I hope that this isn’t my last encounter with it.