Boon Faro Pertotale

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

Disappearing beige head, unclear amber/orange body with loads of sediment. Thick aroma of brown sugar with some fruit and a mouldy tone. Flavor is thin-bodied with earth and slight malt and sugar notes and a little citrus in the end. A really odd beer.

Bottled: Oh boy. This is not good. Hazy amber coloured. Dense little beige head. Pours with loads of sediment. Honey aroma. Flavour is "old". Has a cloying fruity sweetness, that dominates all. Dosn’t live long on the palate, and I’m sure happy about that.

A red beer with sediment (even though it is best before 2063) floating around and hints of a fast disappearing head. The aroma is of flowers, lavender, and sugar. The flavor is of sugar and yet sour - but the sourness tastes more like the beer is too old, than that it has been wildfermented - weird. I’d say this was too old.

If you can see through the yeast particles, it’s probably clear orange brown. Aroma of brown sugar, caramel, yeast, raisin-bread. Sweet alcohol and sour sirupy taste, unbalanced. Strange bitter palate.

Dutch ratebeer lambic-meeting: BB 14 March 2004. Cloudy red-brown coloured, yeast particles floating around. Very nice "aged" aroma, sugar and molasses. Disappointing thin mouthfeel and watery flavour however. Nice aroma, but that’s all there is to it.

Garnet red-hazy, full of little flunky bits; thick yellowish head, slowly disappearing. Nose of parsley, "Old Spice" hair oil, greasy, some caramel. Taste again, a mixture of green leaves & herbs and hair oil - the aroma of course, I drink that rarely if ever. Dried pine needles, perfumey - just no syrup. Amazing. Tim Webb thought it thoroughly disgusting. Maybe a bit lightstruck. Thin mouthfeel, ending watery. The hair oil perfume keeps hanging on. Well. Once I thought the earth of Pertotale. Either I changed, either this was one very bad semple.
Draught Very perfumy nose, some lemon, some horseblanket, but very obvious caramel/sugar syrup. Sweet, but finishes more acid-filled. Rather slick, sticky.

well balanced beer, with all someone who likes the lambics but not to sour would die for. The balanced between the acid, sweetness and bitterness out of the wood is combined in this bottle. Some spicyness might occur out of the wines/sherry's maybe?

I have notes for this one and like Suttree it was LATE in the evening. Thanks to Suttree for splurging and buying this beer. Dark orange/brown color with a sticky sweet sour apple and candy flavor. After about 6 different samples of Cantillons earlier that evening this one didn't stand a chance. Its a lambic with a sweet tooth basically. Now that I have sampled all the variations of lambics, I can assume Faro is the BMC of the lambic world. Not too bad though.