Mort Subite Cassis

Brewed by Mort Subite (Alken-Maes / Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Lambic - Fruit
Kobbegem, Belgium

Acheté au dépanneur peluso à montreal au coût de 2$ et dégusté avec glandine et Agaguk. BIère qui était derrière le comptoir depuis plus de 24 ans. Brassé le 6 décembre 1985 et meilleur avant juin 1995. Bière de 4%, de couleur brune ambré foncé tirant sur le cuivré orangé. Arômes de goldshlager, de menthe, de liège, de cassis, de sucre de maïs et de poivre rouge. Un goût incroyable, de raisin rouge et vert, de rhubarbe, pomme-poire, de cassis et de cerise de terre avec une touche de sirop de maïs. Délicate et explosive en bouche, elle est bien balancé et aigre avec une explosion de saveur.

375ml Bottle shared with Grand Genie. Paid $2,00 at the corner store Peluso in Montreal. The bottle was 24 years old ***85-06***. Best before 1995-06. Amber red brown appearance with no head. Aroma: gold shlager, mint, cassis, corn syrup, red pepperwood chips and cherries. Flavor: sour, red grapes, rubarb, pear, green apples, cherries, a light taste of raisins and cassis. Palate: medium body, oily, with a nice rubarb sour finish.

Bottle at Plan B, Best Before 2005. Pours an amber colour with a long lasting off white head. Aroma is sweet black berries a little dry and with caramel notes. Flavour is sweet black berries, with wood and prune notes. Its quite watery on the palate but with a dry black berry after taste.

A clear brown beer with no head. Meaty cassis fruit aroma, leather, and cough drops. In mouth, a very sweet cassis, with lactic notes, light effervescence remaining. Bottle is BB 09 1999, so made in around 1989! Surprising and overall, nice. Old Stock Tasting June 2008.

Bottled (BBE 2007), not sure how long this has been in my coldcellar. Deep rubyreddish colour with small off-white head. Aroma is lots of black currants and other dark berries with some mild sourness to it. Flavour is quite much the same with some slight artificial notes as well as also blueberries.

26 Aug 2006 - Big sweet blackcurrant aroma. medium brown colour, ok head and ordinary lacing. Sweet lolly blackcurrant and a touch sour flavour. Finishes with a cloying sweet blackcurrant.

Bottle, bought @ Kulminator, Antwerpen.
[Vintage 2003]
Pours a deep pale red with a good, frothy off white head - impressive for a lambic. Aroma is sweet with lots of black currants, some oak and a slight tartness. Great creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet at first with lots of black currants and raspberries. A slight tartness hits at the far end along with a little barnyard and muskiness. For people who like fx. Melbourn Brth., this would be their cassis.

Tart enough to relieve what could otherwise become cloying sweetness. Has a seductive nose. Mort Subite cassis is accessible enough and I’d return to it now and then. It’s a fun beer but I don’t appreciate the baby sized 25 cl bottles.