Girardin Faro

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Dark red in color. Thanx to oh6gdx. Medium sized reddish head, lazings. The aroma is sweet and barnyard like. The flavor is sweet and almost gueze like in the shape of a lambic!?!? Nice, sweet and sour in one package, compelling. Sweet, yepp, nice

bottle at the rake, thanks to harrisoni. dark mahogany colour, good creamy head. nose of sour whey, and a bit of glucose. very balanced faro, not too sweet, but still very heavy on the glucose. quite a lot of bread with a good hint of pepper. grand faro, i thought.

Botella. Hazy deep red colour. Fruity cherry sourish aroma. Good mouthfeel. The flavour has a good frutiness with cherries, yeast, toasty malt and a nice sourness. Nice dry sour fruity finish.

My first faro, thanks probtsk. Pours like a naturally carbonated aged beer, similar to geuze but for the pinking tinge. White head. Cherry in the aroma, and significantly in the taste. Medium and smooth mouthfeel. Easy drinking with a meal. On the sweet side, without foodi t would be too much.

375ml bottle. Mild murkiness to the pour (brown color) with a large tan head. Sweet brown sugar, caramel and honey nose - dusty, dry minerals as well (and some yeast) when warmer. Toasted grains and bread and some sweet brown sugar covered fruit tastes, a little bit of peppery yeast as well (and rye bread). There’s certainly a lot going on, but of course with faro it’s missing the acidity and it’s too sweet. Comes across as bran, toast, toffee and brown sugar, some light tartness and acidity when warmer, and it leaves the palate somewhat dry and puckery, but the sourness is very light and mostly hidden and overwhelmed by the brown sugar and caramel sweetness.

Tap at Het Warm Water. Clear amber color with no head. Slightly lactic aroma. Thinnish body with hardly any carbonation. Slightly acidic flavor - rather citric. Mild funk. A bit fruity. Fairly dry finish. Rather refreshing. I think like faroes.

[1155-20080301] Bottle. Aroma of sweet mushroom sauce and chicken. Clear, dark brown amber body with a quick bubbly light brown head. Bit of alcohol but flavour is mostly sweet malt and mushrooms and a sour finish. Medium body is sour. Quite good, drinkable, repeatable.
(ZBF 2008; Sint Niklaas, BE)

Bottled. Beer Circus, Brussels. Ultra clear copper colour. No head. Raisiny nose with no sweetness detected. Raisin backbone in flavour, with slight sweetness and bit woody. Nice, balanced beer.