Lindemans Tea Beer

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

I think Joris sums this one up Lipton Lemon Ice Tea an interesting but not very good attempt at a beer. Page 286 of Michael Jackson’s Great Beer Guide and only 333 out of 500 Classic Brews to go.

Bottle: Poured a reddish hazy amber with light bubbly white head. Sour earthy aroma. Sour tangy alcohol and tea leaf flavor.

Bottled(250ml). -Hazy orange/amber coloured, small airy white head, perfumy camomile ice tea nose. Lemony and yeasty aroma with notes of cinnamon. Drinkable and refreshing but no thanks.

0.25l bottle at the Hopdevil, Zagreb
I seem to have liked this more than most.Poured a nice orange/amber colour with a small creamy head. The nose was quite nice. Rose water, lemond and a touch of yeast. The taste is... yeah, tea, dry, a bit astringent even, lemon (but not too much of it), some bubblegum and yeast. Original and interesting. Less ice tea like than I thought it would be. Oh, and a big part of the label was in Chinese. Odd.

A Sim Rate (bottled from Bier Tempel, Brussels): Strange green tea aroma with a bit of a cider edge. Watery appearance with absolutely no head. Very citric ice tea flavour. The only reason I bumped the palate up from a 2 to a 3 is because of the fizzy feeling it has in my mouth. As far as beers go, it’s awful, but as a soft drink, I actually quite enjoyed it! Felt like I was back in Texas!

Bottle. 26/05/06. Said to drink it "ice cold" unfortunately I couldn’t and in hindsight it may have been better that way. Honey coloured body with poor head. Sweet aroma. Sugar overpowers the tea flavour too much for me, drank it though.

Perhaps my least favorite Lindemans and a real disgrace to both this excellent Lambic house and the name of Lambic in general. Sweet aromas overpower the acetic and estery notes that are present in the background. Sweet on the palate with a slight acidity. It is definitely an "ice tea" esque experience and a wedge of lemon, just like you might use for Lipton’s orange pekoe seems definitely appropriate. Almost cloying palate, so it is, indeed, best to serve ice cold. Some will like this, but don’t pretend it is a more traditional example -- or even one of Lindeman’s better attempts.

An unclear orange beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is sweet acidic with fruity notes. The flavor is sweet and slightly acidic, but also with fruity notes.