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Boon Meertse


Percentile
12
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Unblended

Lembeek, Belgium

bottling
unknown

on tap
unknown

distribution
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
142.26/5.02.31/5.02.8%4.2Flute, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
This is strictly speaking NOT a commercial beer. It is a third running of the lambicmalts, used for blending purposes in order to make faro and kriek. Frank Boon still does it the old way, and consented to have this served, for beerenthusiasts' interest, on the Bierpallieters' festival.
DISCLAIMER: This beer is, repeated, NOT a commercial beer. It is effectively more worts than beer. So, it makes very little sense to claim this beer is not "good", etc.
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 Enjoyit (1712), Vadum, Denmark
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/101/55/102/510/20
Sep 2, 2007  
Hazy brown of color, no head. An aroma of caramel and chocolate. A flavor with notes of caramel and sweets, hints of thin chocolate. Not sour.


 voota (761), Melbourne, Australia
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/53/102/56/20
Jul 30, 2007  
WOSF 07’ Muddy brown with no head. Weak caramel aroma, lots of DMS and signs of heaps of other nasties, its actually quite horrible. Weak, muddy feel in tho mouth... lots of worty sweet caramel and butter. This stuff was pretty bad, but credit to Frank for letting us taste a bit of history.


 bager (2121), Copenhagen N, Denmark
1.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/56/20
Jul 13, 2007  
On tap @ the weekend of spontaneous fermantation 07. Murky brownish in colour. Strong feel of diacetyl with other notes of caramel, candied sugar and honey.


 rudolf (1767), Buffalo, New York, USA
1.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/53/103/53/20
Jun 17, 2007  
Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 07. Nose is lots of caramel, not much else. Some honey & sweetness. Flavor is butter caramel, butterscotch. Blah.


 MesandSim (5848), London, Greater London, England
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/52/102/55/20
Jun 7, 2007  
A Mes rate: Should this really be on here? Is it even a beer yet? Buttery diacetyl with a thick and muddy body. Was something interesting to try but not something I would want to drink again. It was like drinking a glass of wort. Funny story to tell... My brother tried this and along with everyone else at our large table thought it was pretty awful. Later on while he was down the other end of the table Patrick (sitting next to Frank Boon) passes him a drink (De Troch something or other) saying ’here you go Nick, this is bloody awful, you drink it’. Nick tries it, agrees it is poor but immediately points out "you should try this stuff we have down the other end, it’s f**king rank, everyone says it’s the worst beer they have ever tried, hang on I’ll get you some’. He comes back to our end of the table and asks for the glass of Meertse. Sim gives it him but points out that it is probably best he keeps his mouth shut and explains who it is that Pat is sitting next to. Nick looks up the other end of the table to Pat, pulls a silly face, puts his thumbs up and sits down. Piss funny. The beer was as I say interesting from a geeky point of view. I love Boon and have done for many years. Frank is a very nice guy and a true legend of everything Lambic. Oh and he bought us a beer too. Cheers.


 oh6gdx (8838), Vasa, Finland
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 6, 2007  
Draught. HAzy brownish colour, no head. Aroma is very much caramel and also some wooden hints. Flavour is carmael, yeast, earth in a very nice way. I guess I’m a pervert since I liked it very much .)


 Magicdave6 (5491), London, Greater London, England
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/58/20
Jun 4, 2007  
It all makes sence now, pat handed me this and started raving about it. Malty dead flat raw malts, muddy looking. A strange thing to think that this actually turns into a kriek in the end.


 henrikb (1303), Aarhus, Denmark
1.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/101/53/101/55/20
Jun 3, 2007  
Ugly unclear murky brown body; Very buttery (tons of diacetyl), malty sugary sweet (like wort) quite unpleasant nose; Malty sugary body, thick unpleasant texture; Malty sweet sticky slightly bitter to long finish. Way drink this? For the fun, yes, but it wasn’t funny at all!



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