Girardin Faro

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Faro
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Corked 375ml bottle from Dranken Geers. Pours deep copper with a creamy white collar. Caramelised boiled sweet and rust aroma like a crappy pasteurised bitter; an underlying crumb of dank vinegared wood and little streaks of green apple acidity disclosing the lambic content. Damp and uninteresting like watered-down Rodenbach; faint mildew, muscovado and malt loaf but not enough to prevent it ending up tasting like a Flemish sour shandy made with low cal lemonade.

Bottle @ ZBF 2010. A clear dark golden colored beer, with a thick white head. The aroma of sweet with notes of wood. The atste is a little sour woody. Notes of sherry and sweet. The aftertaste is mostly sweet with a little bitter.

Drain pour. First off, it is technically impossible to bottle true Faro. It will detonate in the bottle. Anyway, it pours a clear light amber with a tiny tan head. Malty aroma with closet and barnhouse floor. Taste is really odd with sickly sweetness, stale grains, chemicals. Yuck.

Pours a pale yellow with a champagnish foam. The aroma has raspberry that is very distinct, also has barnyard, and the sourness of the beer is also notable in the nose. The taste is sour, but not in a bad way. It also has these slight raspberry notes.

Bouteille verte de 375 ml, avec bouchon de lière, obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Odeur de fruité légèrement sûrette. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée voilée. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de fruité sucré mais légèrement acide. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture vineuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de raisins verts en arrière goût. (Rating #2923)

Tasting at ZBF. Clear amber color with a small head. Aroma is sour with some sweetness. Taste is a good balance between sour and sweet. Nice brew.

This is the faro that made me give the style another chance. Intriguing blend of sweet and funky; not a super syrupy sweet flavor, but balanced perfectly with the acidity.

Bottle @ ZBF 2010. Pours a straw colored beer, nearly no head. Very drinkable, light bodied, soft carbonation. Aftertaste is some caramel syrup, but subtle.