Girardin Rare Vos

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Hazy light amber, small bubbled white head that reduces quickly but leaves considerable lacing. Grainy nose has dust, toast, and yeast, considerable sweetness, and a bit of souring citrus. Flavor is sweet, more faro like with the grainy, offset sourness, derived mainly in citrus, but the grain is too spicy even for that and so the malt is too evident. A blatant contrast that doesn’t work well

tap at rare vos. pours a lightly hazed amber with bright orange highlights and a large frothy dirty white head. leaves some intricate lacework on the glass. good lookin beer. aroma of earthy brown sugar, mixed berries, and yogurt. taste is silky dry cherries, toasted bread, complimented by some nice yogurt sourness. well made. strangely, the fruit-lambic combo comes across almost like a hoppy pale ale fruit beer. unique. interesting. nice balance. pretty good.

Draught, at the pub of the same name. Ruby red, pink head. Taste is sweet, sour and bitter at different stages of the sampling. More prominent hop profile than most. Interesting and unique.

Sampled July 2010, from the tap at Rare Vos
This arrives with a frothy, one-finger thick, pale, lightly tan colored head. The beer is a red, brilliantly clear color that shows a dark amber sheen to it. This smells of caramelization, somewhat beery (not very Lambic like), has a hint of tartness to it and somewhat fruity with a berry like character that comes through softly. This is interesting, if a bit industrial smelling somehow.

The beer tastes nicely tart as it first hits my tongue; it is very refreshing and maybe even has some hop character to it. It finishes with a slight bite that is a mix of hop bitterness and carbonic acid. This is somewhat sweet tasting, but this is pretty well balanced by the soft tartness. This is very cool and refreshing on this muggy, hot day. The texture is somewhat viscous and has a light-medium body.

I really wonder how Girardin makes this beer, it is likely a blend with a bit of Lambic in it and some caramel color; quite weird in some ways, I am really not quite too sure what to think. In the end this is a bit simplistic, but still nice.

Yesterday with Pierre ans William on tap @ Restaurant De Rare Vos Schepdaal. Strange almost clear red-amber color, with little offwhite head. Aroma sour-woods, sweet touch, fruit. Medium Body. Taste a blendid thats sure, sour, and sweet, with part of lambic, bit wood dry finish. Good. Refreshing.

From tap at Rare Vos. Distinct malty aroma with a light barnyard note. Fruity and nice malty flavoured. Citric, light sourish. Nice malty and lingering fruity. Lingering citric. Light caramelish to breadish note. Somewhat a hybrid between faro and flemish bruin.

Draft @ De Rare Vos, Schepdaal. Pours a clear copper color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty carame land brown sugar aroma. Sweetish malty candy sugary flavor with some fruity hints. Has a fruity malty brown sugar finish.

Clear amber with a medium white head. Aroma had sweet malt, caramel, brett and cheese. Flavour had sweet and sour malt, caramel, sour berries and brett notes. Finished sourish.