Lindemans Cassis Lambic

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Fruit
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Pours a surprisingly dark shade of purple w/ a big head of creamy bubbles. I really liked the nose on this--crisp, fruity and w/ a delicate edge of mint that adds a nice accent to the rest of it. Flavor is tart but w/ some sweetness, the mint accent comes across as rather strange and chaulky at this point but is not entirely unpleasant. Body is slightly heavy for a lambic w/ less carbonation than expected but it worked w/ the sweet/tart dichotomy of the beer reasonably well. Overall, I was surprised by how good this was. It’s actually a rather unusual and entertaining beer.

This lambic was ok.. probably better than Lindemans peach but not as good as their cherry or raspberry offerings. Not as fruity as the others... this one actually tasted somewhat like beer. Not bad at all but when I am in the mood for lambic, i will stick to the cherry and the raspberry.

12 oz bottle: Pours a deep ruby to fire engine red color with no carbonation/lacing rising to the top, but a thick fluffy and stiff purplish head that folds down into layers as opposed to popping. Aroma is quite nice, just a little one sided, all berries all the time. A little in the way of flowers and not much else. The flavor is nice, a little acidic and bitter. The tastes are of berries. There is a little bit of a carbonated feel to it and a tangy aftertaste.

I like the way Lindemann’s does their fruit lambics. This was the last of their fruits lambics for me, and I enjoyed it. The aroma was incredible, very strong berries and floral aspects. The pour was dark purple, hardly any light passing through, with a light purple-pink head that provided fantastic lacing. The flavor was much of he same with only a hint of lambic-ness underneath, balanced by some sugar to make this most drinkable. Mouthfeel was modearate with significant carbonation. My numbers are going to be higher than how much I really enjoyed this (fruit alert), but what can you do? Phenomenally greaet aroma, appearance, and flavor for the style.

Bottle. Dark wine red pour, neon pink head. Smells of currant, sweet and tangy with a bit of dust. Tastes the same. Sourness is a bit milder than in the Framboise, on the whole a bit sweeter, too. That is, too sweet.

another chickie lambic, pinkish purple with reddish head; the aroma is fruity with hint of currant. so is the flavor.

From the bottle.

Pours a reddish purple with a flourescent pink head. The aroma is a funky winery-bottling-room with some black currant; the flavor is an overwhelming blast of thick, sweet, sticky black currant (think melted sorbet or maybe even straight-up Torani syrup). The lambic character is in there somewhere, but one practically has to focus to find it beneath all the fruit and sugar.

As fruit juice, it’s passable. As a beer, no.

Kind of a slight stale aroma. Very attractive cloudy burgundy in appearance with a fine bubbly head. Very tart - a slight metallic aftertaste - not really bad - just rather metallic. I liked the livliness of the carbonation. A refreshing drink to sip. This was my first experience with a lambic. Very unbeer-like. Different but good.