Mort Subite Cassis

Brewed by Mort Subite (Alken-Maes / Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Kobbegem, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Originally rated March 2006. Sampled at Vineyard in Ottawa, Ontario. Best before date is 16-01-06. Pours a clear red-pink-orange colour with a small fizzy white head. The lacing is thin and also fizzy, found in spots here and there. Candy nose of blackcurrant with a side that is medicinal. Watery mouthfeel. Starts off like a good tasting cough syrup, then goes to a sour finish. Some metallic flavour is found in the aftertaste, like rust and blood... or maybe just bad water. It does eventually go away. Not as bad as that sounded. The cassis aroma and taste are very nice and pleasant, well mixed, for a good fruit beer.

1st December 2006
Early amateur rating warning! Slight watery fruit beer, not as much fruit flavour as I would like. Dusty undertone.

Blood red and purple pour. Nose is very strong berry. Taste is muted berry and crisp sour apple. (Bottle aged 12-15 years)

Bouteille, jus de cassis sur une bière ordinaire. Trop sucrée, plus du bonbon qu’un lambic avec des fruits.

Acheté au dépanneur peluso à montreal au coût de 2$ et dégusté avec glandine et Agaguk. BIère qui était derrière le comptoir depuis plus de 24 ans. Brassé le 6 décembre 1985 et meilleur avant juin 1995. Bière de 4%, de couleur brune ambré foncé tirant sur le cuivré orangé. Arômes de goldshlager, de menthe, de liège, de cassis, de sucre de maïs et de poivre rouge. Un goût incroyable, de raisin rouge et vert, de rhubarbe, pomme-poire, de cassis et de cerise de terre avec une touche de sirop de maïs. Délicate et explosive en bouche, elle est bien balancé et aigre avec une explosion de saveur.

375ml Bottle shared with Grand Genie. Paid $2,00 at the corner store Peluso in Montreal. The bottle was 24 years old ***85-06***. Best before 1995-06. Amber red brown appearance with no head. Aroma: gold shlager, mint, cassis, corn syrup, red pepperwood chips and cherries. Flavor: sour, red grapes, rubarb, pear, green apples, cherries, a light taste of raisins and cassis. Palate: medium body, oily, with a nice rubarb sour finish.

Bottle at Plan B, Best Before 2005. Pours an amber colour with a long lasting off white head. Aroma is sweet black berries a little dry and with caramel notes. Flavour is sweet black berries, with wood and prune notes. Its quite watery on the palate but with a dry black berry after taste.

A clear brown beer with no head. Meaty cassis fruit aroma, leather, and cough drops. In mouth, a very sweet cassis, with lactic notes, light effervescence remaining. Bottle is BB 09 1999, so made in around 1989! Surprising and overall, nice. Old Stock Tasting June 2008.