Boon Meertse

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

Draught @ 16th Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 2007, Optal. Murky medium orange color with virtyally none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy sweet, hops, malty, dust. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet (fresh sweet / like young ! ) with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. Once in a lifetime experience.

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 .)

Draught at weekend of spontanious fermentation. Hazy orange brown coloured with a small head. Aroma of butterscotsch and caramel. Sweet flavour of butterscotsch and caramel. Watery.

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.

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.

Draught Muddy, murky beer with of course no head. Sweetish nose, worts, speculoos , burnt cakerind. Like very young, sweet worts, unhopped still. A bit of candi sugar, malts, but dusty old casks. Despite the fact that this is totally fermented out (only linked glucosides left), the Bretts not included, this is still pretty well-bodied, slick. Extremely interesting stuff. It’s not what one would drink daily, or during an evening, but it is not un-nice.

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.

Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 07. Nose is lots of caramel, not much else. Some honey & sweetness. Flavor is butter caramel, butterscotch. Blah.