Girardin Faro

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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(Bottle. 03/2006) Clear, amber. Fast-disipating, fizzy white head. Nose of diacetyl (strong butterscotch), autolysis (rotting meat), and oxidation (cardboard). No real acetic notes which makes the aroma quite unappealing for a lambic product. Butterscotch mixed with sweet caramel on the mouth. Overly sweet and way, way too buttery ... oily palate.

Brown-colored beer with small foam. I should not it be allowed to rate such a beer, since I have not learned to value this beer but ... Nasty tastes, smells horribly of stale beer. Sour beer and so anyway with a sweet finnish.

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.

Bottle. Clear dark amber coloured. Honey and apricots - brown sugar. A bit dry finish - feels a bit oily in the mouth. Way way too sweet.

Bottle from Bier Tempel, Brugge. Comes in a mini champagne like bottle. Pungent sour fruity yeasty aroma. Clear medium brown colour with a good head. Strange bitter fruity flavour with coffee caramel aftertaste. A bit like dry vimto. Not really my thing.

Bottle @ home, shared with Thompson. Light amber / dark copper color, thin white lacing on top. Smell malts and lots of grains. Tastes grainy and lightly sour. Pretty boring. Low to medium carbonation, low body.

(on bottle at RBESG 2005)Rusty coloured, white head, not much tnough. A flat mouthfeel and a sour-sweet taste of kandis and bramble. Not a kicker, but an ok, quiet pour for a lazy afternoon, not a grand tasting.

Bottle. Youghurt-like sourness. Very sweet on the palate and again with the feeling of drinking youghurt. A waste of good lambic.

Bottle at ZBF 2008. Clear dark red/brown - white head. Aroma: wet dog, light sourness, light malty. Taste: Mushrooms, champion, brown sugar, light light cherries, high sweetness. Not very pleasant.

Tasting at DØE-meeting, Aarhus Syd, DK. Bottled, 170310. Amber with small head. Aroma of acid and fruit. Flavor is cane sugar with the sour backbone. Why artiifical additives?