Lindemans Cassis Lambic

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

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It pours a dark purple, almost like grape jelly with a purple head. It stays about 30 seconds, very carbonated and decent lacing The aroma is light, smells like fresh red grapes light sour aroma. The taste is good very sweet, tastes like grape juice but in a good way. The only complaint is that there isn’t enough tartness to the beer. Its all sweet, no sour. The mouthfeel is ok doesn’t really stick to your mouth, but the taste lastes awhile. Its very drinkable could crush this all day long, but its only 4%.

25cl bottle (why might you drink more of this) pours rich deep ruby red grape juice with nice blood orange colored foam head. Please let it be intense with rich sweet/tart currants, please please! I beg you. The aroma offers up sweet sugar syrupy blueberries, vague berries and some modest rich earthy goodness currants (I love you currants). OK, the taste isn’t overly sweet and offers up a decent level of currant like tartness that begins with brief sweet dark berry and current notes and then moves progressively tart with fruity dry tannins. It is sort of a shame I’ve had B. Nectar’s Heart of Darkness and Kuhnhenn’s first run of Tenacious Cassis before this and tasted what they can do with currant goodness. Here it misses the depth of flavor and richness as well as falling short on the earthy goodness currants deliver. This tastes like it was cut with something and just comes up short of what it could be. Into the finish I get hints of the house mildly wild yeast adding just a bit of depth and added tartness and interest.

Pitch dark red body with a great dark pink head. Very nice strong sour aroma with blackberries and sour cherries. Very nice sour flavour with berries and cherries. Very nice overall.

Bottle: Lively medium airy cherry pink head, disappears fairly quick and leaves a half open lacing on top of a light cloudy deep ruby colored beer. Smell mostly berries and black currant, some hints of cherry a like sweetness, (the lightest) hint of something sour/(wild) yeasty and some fishy grains. Taste is sour sweet with a stingy sour something. There are agains lots of berries with black currant, some yeasty light wood ish notes, sting hay/sting grain notes, light dry, a touch of some sweeter barleys and elder hops (if even to be noticed). Aftertaste is light dry, black currant, wild yeast and stingy light sour and lighter bitter. Medium carbo, light tingly light spicy mouthfeel, medium body and a light creamy. Guess the sweetness is maybe a touch on the higher side, the sourness a bit on the low side, though it is a decent beer.

Bottle @ DØE meeting. Pours red with a small light red head. Aroma us sweet fruity, blackberries, sugar, slight sour aswell. Taste is sweet sodalike with blackberries, sugar, little sourness. Thin body, lively carbonation. Easy drinking and proberly would go down well as a thirst qusher on a warm day. 160512

250ml bottle. Acid and berries aromas. Pours reddish purple, with thin vanishing reddish head. Some lacework. Light body and high carbonation. Taste is sour, cherries, and some sweetness, balanced. Average sour finish.

25 cl bottle @ home. Pours a dark red colour, tints of blue. no head. The aromas are very acidic, but with faint notes of fresh blackcurrants. the taste notes back the aromas up pretty good, although the taste is slightly more acidic, than expected. More lambic-like, than the other lindemans (ie. the Kriek, Apple and Perchesse). A good beer to start learning about lambic.

Bottle at my Pre-CBC Tune-Up Tasting. It pours deep purple, with a thin light pink head. The nose is sweet blackcurrant, jammy fruit and Ribena. The taste is tangy blackcurrant, jam, some sourness, lime and Ribena. Medium body and average carbonation. Not offensive at all, at least there is some good tanginess.

Bottle at Scopey’s CBC Tune-Up. Deep purple color with no head. The nose is deep, sugary sweet blackcurrant and light yeast. Simple nose. The taste is simple, sweet sugary blackcurrant. Robinson’s fruit squash and fruit leather. Light body with soft carbonation. Overall, not fantastic.

18th August 2009
3.5%. Cloudy purple beer with a magenta head! Palate is semi dry and semi crisp. Rich blackcurrant totally dominates. Tart enough to cause a bit of eyelid flutter but never overpowering. Finishes tart crisp and dry. An intensely fruity experience!

375ml bottle. Body is deep purple red with a nice red head. Aroma and taste of fruity, and sour, cassis. Nice as desert. Likable.