Mort Subite Faro

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

Amber colour with a white head. Sweet light acid fruity aroma and a dry taste. Medium body and a sweet dry foinish.

Draught at the Mort Subite Cafe. Served too cold, this was fairly dark with little head. Sugary with little tartness.. Not as unpleasent as some faro’s that ive tried.

Draught at La Mort Subite Cafe, Brussels. Orange, no head, treacly aroma. Very easy drinking beer, and although the first few sips reveal little complexity, gradually you get the sense of a well oiled machine at work (what does this mean??) Primarily sweet, brown/barley sugar, perhaps ginger, with a slightly soured finish, like a boiled sweet.

Amber with a small head. Aroma is fruity and sour. Flavor is really sour at first, there is citrus in it but also a sweet finish. Quite a dry palate.

An amber beer with a small head. The aroma is sour with notes of grapes and brown sugar and so is the flavor.

Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm. Copper colour. Sweat and sugar in the nose. Sourish tarty up front, followed up by a rich amount of sugar. Faro is not my type of beer - yet.

Amber/orange, nice small head. Aroma is slightly fruity, caramel notes and of course sourish. Flavor is also typically sourish, but also with citrus, grapefruit and some sweeter notes.

Bright amber colour. Aroma as expected - horseblanket and sugar. Palate is quite tart, with hints of caramel. Brilliant balance as the sugar cuts through the lambic notes (as opposed to their regular Gueuze, which is vice versa). Awesome faro, which the sarcastic might say stems from Keersmaeker’s extensive experience at adding sugar to lambic.