Girardin Faro

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Faro
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

Source: Bottle purchased at the Rake in London.
Glass: Poured into a Rodenbach stem glass.
Appearance: Dark amber with a one finger beige head.
Aroma: Sweet malt, brown sugar and molasses.
Flavor: Hint of vinegar with sweet malt and brown sugar.
Palate: Medium/light body with solid carbonation.
Overall: Another tick...not a bad beer either.

Tap @ Bier Circus. Pours tea-brown and still. Aroma of burnt sugar. Taste is odd with the sugar and sourness. A good deal of acetone in there. Finishes yeasty. Not into this at all.

Bottle. Pours clear amber, heavy carbonation. White head that becomes thin after a while but still is quite long-lasting. Somewhat acidy aroma of good lambiek with some caramel and some coffee in the background. First taste bitter-sour with brown sugar. For a faro this one has a very nice palate:some sour from the lambiek,some sweet sugar, but also some bitterness in the aftertaste. Very nice faro!

clear amber, large thick smoth offwhite head. dry aroma of brett, stable, fruits, balanced, and hinting at a good sour experience. flavor is bitter, brett, berries in the background, sweetness, not much sourness, still comes off as a nice bittersweet bretty slightly sour thing.

It’s a beautiful brown-red/copper color and the head is small. The aroma has notes of sweetness, sourness, peal of citrus fruits and some cane sugar. The flavour has sweetness and sourness with notes of peal of grapefruit and oranges, a tart grapefruit that develops and some sour berries also are found. Now, I’m not a Faro specialist in any way, but I prefer the Lindemans... 2334 (had forgotten to ad this rating 2 years old)

Bottle shared at Andy’s tasting. Think this one may have been from Andy, not sure though. My first Faro. Pours a hazy light brown with a thin white head. Aromas are coffee, toffee, and vanilla. Sweet, with a touch of brown sugar. Light finish with a touch of bitterness. Not even close to what I was expecting, but this was still fairly tasty.

Bottle: Amber pour with a dense tan head. Has a sweet & tart aroma of caramelized sugar, as well as Swiss cheese and moldy oxidized notes. Creamy & velvety palate. Has a smooth sugary sweetness and a papery molded note. Some cheese rind funk as well. The sugar works well in this example.

Bottle. Copper colour with nearly no off-white head. Aroma is sour, sugar. Flavour is dry, sugar, sour, sweet, cork, yeast. Nice beer.