Boon Faro Pertotale

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Faro
Lembeek, Belgium

Much better than the last faro I tried, but I have a feeling that this style will never grow on me. Poured with very little carbonation and a sort of sickly amber tone. Some ped and bret in the aroma but also some sugary sweetness. The flavor has lots of maltiness (perhaps really not a lot but accentuated by the sugar?) A little more bitter than I would expect, but not enough for me. Some classic labic flavor. Ummm that’s it ...

Bottle at Delirium Cafe, Brussels. Dark, headless Faro, with a cola aroma. Reminds me of coke in the mouth - sweet, slightly gingery taste. The heaviest Faro I’ve tried, and the label says "Dubelle Faro" which makes sense. Clean tasting, but not as fresh as Mort Subite, though smoother and less fizzy.

A dark burgundy color, with a school of swimmers floating about--is this normal, or is the bottle old? I did get it in a bargain bin at a store that overprices, and undersells it’s rarer beers. No head at all, but the aroma is out of this world! Deeply vinous, a heady mix of grapes and alcohol! The taste is thick, full, complex, with licorice flavors, brandy,molasses, red wine, and more. Intensely sweet, with tiny rebuttal from sour, kicking in, now and then. I haven’t had a Faro in a while, and had forgotten what I should expect. A surprising , and seriously complex blend of sweet and sour. Great lambic!

Chapeau-like aroma: mostly like a cellared, fermented sugar-water. Hazy, caramel-brown color. Watery palate after the light fizz fell flat; sugary body.

Dark amber color. Strange aroma, like common vinegar, and a touch of sweetness. Very poor taste, thin, with a bad end. Not sweet at all; too bitter.

Cloudy copper with a decent head. Sweetish nose with funny fusel notes, some barnyard, maple syrup, kumquats. Quite sweet, mapley, nutty bitterness, citrus, tamarind.

Dutch ratebeer lambic-meeting: BB 14 March 2004. Nice, but weird smell of raisinbread (yeast, malts and sugar). Taste is sirupy, sour, sugar, alcoholic. Quite nasty. Raisinbread again. Bit thin palate.

My 300th beer! In the bottle at the Dundee Dell. And what a cool bottle it is: a small 355 ml green champagne bottle. When this arrived at my table, the entire room smelled like Bazooka Joe bubblegum. Pours a muddy, murky brown with lots of sediment. Try as I might, I could not get all the cake of yeast mixed back into the beer. The head was an off-white color that faded fast. Very complex aroma, but mostly bubblegum. The first flavor that hits you is the overpowering sweetness, but that disappears quickly. A strong sour tartness takes its placebut is soon balanced by a wash of malty body in relief. Then the unexpected happens: A tiny little beer pixie pops out and smacks your tongue with a wee little paddle of pepper flavor over and over. Just little taps. And all this happens WITH EACH SIP. Same tastes, same order, each sip. This is one strange beer. I give it high marks for creativity.