Mort Subite Cassis

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

The aroma jumps straight out of the bottle even before you start pouring. Hazy dull red/brown body with slightly off-white tightly beaded head. Ribena like aroma. Blackberry. Taste is very good, medium body, pleasant mouthfeel, light sweetness and soft carbonation.

Pours a hazy reddish-copper with a huge ivory head, even with an extremely gentle pour. Very, very lacy. Here’s where I thought I had made a very big mistake. The aroma smells of rotting fruit. I mean, it smells bad. Hints of sour blackberry but lots of smelly rotting fruit in there. Fortunately, it tastes much better than it smells. Sour lambic with some sweet/tart blackberry. Some serious sweetness in there but not cloyingly so. Sweet and sour are very nicely balanced. The tart fruitiness is most apparent in the finish and lightly puckering aftertaste. Not an everyday beer but it acquits itself nicely as an apertif or maybe an afterdinner drink.

A very sweet nose,like tart candy.pours like a blend of red wine port and beer in colour, with a big red tinged head. A good tasting but very tame lambic Sweet and fruity with some bitterness and again that tough of tanginess is in there. Too sweet to have more then one but the one I am having I am enjoying.

250 ml bottle, best before 01/06. Deep purple/ruby colour with a thin pink head. Bright sweet cassis aroma. A bit jammy. flavour is very sweet, fruity cassis, a touch of cinnamon and anise as well as a fairly tart finish. Fairly one-dimensional, but not bad.

Bottled. Light currant aroma. Medium tart, citric, slightly sweet currant taste. I´m not a big fan of cassis regardless of the beverage, but this one was quite nice.

Frothy reddish brown beer with a nice strawberry like flavour even though it is cassis. The flavour is again fruity and overwhelmingly similar to strawberry. Overall an OK lambic.

Pours deep copper color with red tinged head. Nose is berrylike with sour and citrus character. Flavor is stingy, with tartness known with other lambics. There is an underlying sweetness. Dry tart finish.

Slightly hazy red to purple color, medium head. Aroma of sweet artificial fruit, blackcurrant, some marzipan. Sweet taste like most of the mort subite beers, and to this one they added a bunch of blackcurrant esters.