 after4ever (2762), Brier, Washington, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 5/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 19, 2007 2000, bottled 02. 750, foiled, capped, and corked. Corked like somethin’ that’s corked really, really tightly, too. Pours hazy deep orange with a billowy, pillowy platinum blonde head that keeps piling up and piling up until you wonder if you’ll ever be able to get the glass full. Not much lace, but that there is is attractively thick and sparkling white. Big vinegary nose hits you before you even set the bottle back down from uncorking it. Just keeps getting deeper and tarter and tangier the more you stick your nose in the glass. Dusty, musty, and funky, too, but only in support of the vinegar. Definitely has a champagne-like tight carb happening in the glass, on the attack, mid-palate, everywhere. Very acetic, mineral-y pucker on the mid-palate, laying out into a mineral tingle on the roof of the mouth for a finish. Definitely interesting and well-made stuff, even if I am the world’s most ambivalent consumer of lambics.
rudolf (1773), Buffalo, New York, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 14, 2007 3 semesters of grad school down, 1 to go. Sticker says 2000, cork says 2002. Crystal gold, a thin rim of foam clinks to the side of the glass. Nose is glorious woody notes with signature Cantillon funk, lemons and the smell you get sitting in a strawberry patch. Flavor is more restrained than expected, certainly acidic but plenty of funk, wood and fruit playing along. Hay comes in as I swish it around my mouth along with more strawberry. Dryness comes in at the end with a surprising bit of bitter hops at the back of my tongue. That bitterness is slightly unpleasant - if it wasn’t there this would get bumped up to a 4.3/4.4
BeerandBlues2 (3216), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
| 3.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 13, 2007 2004 vintage bottle purchased from Liquor Max in Loveland, CO. Pours clear orange with an average, rocky, white head, somewhat diminishing with fair lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (hay, straw), heavy hops (herbs, grass, lemon), heavy yeast (horse blanket, barnyard, earth) with notes of pear and wood. Medium bodied, mineral texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity, and heavy bitterness.
AmEricanbrew (1828), bankrupt socialistwelfare state, Washington DC, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 13, 2007 2002 vintage on label, cork date was 2004. Good barnyard, yeasty, sour bread smell with a hint of musty wood.. Clear copper color with a thin but persistent sheen. Sparkling mouthfeel. Mostly a dry acidic taste with hints of dry bready malts, yeast, and a tart fruit bitter sweetness not unlike eating fresh grapefruit. Pretty good. 07/07/2006
Maria (6225), Thisted, Denmark
| 2.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 3/5 | 8/20 |
Dec 11, 2007 Vintage 2001, tasted July 07. It’s golden with a massive barnyard, sweaty and moulded basement aroma, way too much for my liking. The same goes for the flavour, where I also find a little citrus. It’s sour, but not extremely so. 2423
rajendra82 (703), Alpharetta, Georgia, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 8, 2007 This 2000 vintage beer came in a corked bottle with a crown cap covering it, and it was a good thing too, as the cork appeared to have dried up and shrunk in upright storage. The cap had done its job, and the beer was effervescent, clear, and Champagne like. The smell was very mature and ripe, and the aging seemed to have taken a lot of the funky edges off. The smell reminded me of fresh squeezed lemon juice or a cider made from green apples. Taste was very dry and sour with no hint of any sweetness that might have ever been present. A little bit of hay and cheddar were apparent in the taste as well. Despite all this acidity and complexity, it was smooth and refreshing, and not harsh at all. Airy and slippery with a high level of puckering feel. Easy to drink except for the steep price of admission.
Kinz (2205), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
| 4.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 10/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 5/5 | 19/20 |
Nov 26, 2007 Richmond "industry" gathering, one of my contributions, 1999. Medium gold. Aromas and flavors were a match, and all just huge. Cheddar, sourness, funk, wood, hay, and more sourness of course. Another incredible beer at this tasting.
voota (761), Melbourne, Australia
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 14, 2007 Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 07’. Pours golden with a slight haze and very little head. almost harsh sour aroma, a bit of stomach acid, lots of grape skin tannins and oak. The flavour doesn’t have the sourness that the aroma would suggest, which is definitely a positive. Flavours of wet beech wood, citrus and peach. Dry tart finish. I’m not sure if I like this more than the standard gueuze.
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