Boon Faro

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Faro
Lembeek, Belgium

Bottle. Dark brown, red with a small beige head. Aromas are berries and bubblegum with yeast. Quite vinous. Flavours are sweet and fruity with toffee. Sugary and plummy with some citrus on the finish. OK.

Bottle 25 cl. Pours a clear browl like a Newcastle Brown ale-type of thing. The head is slightly tanned an thick. The nose is freshly sour with acidic citric notes and some troplical fruits and vinegar. The taste is overwhelming sweet - maybe I was caught ne surprise that I had poured a Faro? Its pretty malty with notable hints of sugar. The sourness is almost gone and is almost walking a path leading to the flamish sour ales. The finish is sweet with a sparkling mouthfeel. Not the best faro I’ve had...

25cl Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours a clear brown with a swiftly vanishing white head. Very acetic aroma with a underlying smell of fruit. Malty, sweet and slightly sour flavour with hints of caramel. Interesting sweet, sour malt-ridden finish.

Bottle. Pours a deep copper / brown colour with a dense off white head which falls away fairly quickly. The nose is quite vinegary with a hint of sweetness. The taste whilst initially quite sugary sweet finished with some of the sourness typical of the lambic style. Whilst fairly sweet, the balance seems to be just about right. Low in carbonation the beer is very reminiscent of mead.

Bottle.Brown with reddish hue, almost no head.Appealing aroma of malt,hay,tobacco and sugar.Flavor is candy sweet and sour ,with some cellar and funky notes.Medium body.Nice and layered flavors.

(Bottle, Akkurat, Stockholm, 22 Sep 2009) Dark reddish brown colour with brief, beige head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of brown sugar and dried fruit. Sweetish. Malty taste with dried fruit, brown sugar, raisins and a slightly bittersweet finish. Light body, thick syrupy sweetness. Interesting beer, but not really a favourite.

A moderate example of my least favourite of the lambic styles. Caramel in colour, aroma and taste. Sugary sweet. In the same way that golf is sometimes described as a good walk spoiled, faros often seem like a good lambic wrecked by candy syrup. Like someone put Coke in your whisky. Philistines. Oily palate. (Bottle from IBS, Perth. Shared at the Sep 2009 ’Drunk in the Park’ gathering at Milsons Point)

Ratebeer tasting under the Bridge 12/9. My first Lambic, definitely something different! Quite dark, brown sugar on the nose, sweet sour in the mouth. <insert short leg joke>