Lindemans Cassis Lambic

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Bottle. Pours dark purple with pink hioghlights, frothy pink head, good lace. Smells very fruity and sweet, like... grapes. Tastes very, very sweet and fruity. Currants obviously. Only slightly tart. Ok, way too sweet. Medium body, good carbonation.

Bottle. Dark red body red wine like with a very small head. Blackcurrant all over in aroma. Very rich blackcurrant flavour with some sourness. It lacks carbonation but its very tastefull.

22/11 0.25 l bottle @ Hopdevil, Zagreb. It poured dark reddish purple body with smaller red head. Nice juicy blackcurrant aroma. Very pleasant flavor, too, maybe too juicy for my taste, but sourish lambic character is notable. Nice long and pleasantly sweetish finish within its fizzy carbonation. Nothing industrial or fake here, which makes it to stand out of the other Lindemans fruit lambics, I’ve tried so far. Good enough to be called a "beer".

12oz bottle - Pours dark reddish-purple with a thin purple head. It has a good dark berry aroma and also smells of that lambic barnyard funk. It tastes sweet and funky with a little tartness and much more lambic characteristic than several of the other Lindeman’s brews, a combination that to me makes it the best of their fruit lambics It’s medium bodied and very flavorful. Excellent beer.

Bottle: Pours a nice hazy ruby color with a dense pink head. Coming from Lindemans, and considering it’s one of their Fruit-Lambics, the aroma surprisingly has some Lambic qualities. Musty wild yeast qualities, a touch of barnyard, with a sweet and sour berry presence. It’s nice that the base Lambic peaks through the fruit. Nice rounded feel with a sweet and tart flavor. The sweetness is present with a smooth black berry character, yet it’s balanced by an underlying leathery earthy note and old wood. There’s more fruit flavors later on but they’re tart and cleansing. Not a top example, nor complex, but it’s very tasty and drinkable. A dessert-like Lambic with solid fruit presence.

Bottle at Chaucer’s Pub- Decants a deep purple liquid, sporting a creamy billowing purple head. Lots of retention and lace going on here. The nose was pretty straightforward but enjoyable. Aromas of black currant, concord grapes, berry jam, a smidgen of hops.Tastes of sweet and tart cassis, a bit of yeasty funk, add some hops also. Quite tart and tight on the finish. Good.

Pours a dark ruby-red color with a small pink head. Mildly dusty nose, like an old house, berries are there, too. Very sweet, with a great berry flavor. Lots of carbonation here, too. Slightly sour finish; it’s just too sweet for me.

Bottle from Whole foods. Reddish with a pink creamy head. Aroma of cassis, which I really don’t care for, but a nice tangy fruity taste with some slight sourness.