Mort Subite Faro

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

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.

Draught at Mort Subite. My first faro. Beautiful, slightly dark copper. Lots of candied sugar in the aroma, alongside a hefty dose of lambic funkyness. Flavour and palate is tartness and sugar. Seems that the sweetness is in very good balance with the sourness of this beer. Quite complex. Positively surprised.

(draught) Clear, amber body. Off-white creamy head, mostly diminishing and good lacing. Barnyard and oak aromas. Lightly sweet bu with a well-balanced sour initial flavour. Lightly sweet, lightly acidic finish. Lively mouthfeel.

Draught at Mort Subite, Brusels. My first faro. Light brown color and low carbonation with almost no head. Aroma is lightly sour. Flavor is sweet champagne with a sour lambic finish. Like nothing I have had before and very nice and refreshing.

Comes to the table with a clear dark copper color and a small head. Aroma is surprisingly sour with citric lemon and tart berries. There is definitely a large lambic presence here. And there is only a light sweetness which is presented behind the lambic and the sweetness works well in that place. Taste is mildly sour and lightly acidic lambic with dark tart berry sweetness. Very easy drinking drinking and dries out at the end a bit. At this point this was the last faro I have drank it is definitely the best, better than Cantillon and its surprising from this brewery. This truly had the least amount of sweetener.
Tap @ La Mort Subite, Mort Subite short snifter/goblet on 5/18/08.

Bottle. Bottle. Low but lasting off-white head. Aroma of damp orses and straw combined with old cheese, vinegar in the background. Vineous pleasant round flavor without beeing too sweet. Low carbonation. Long aftertaste. Still a good deal of acitidy.

(draught) Amber red, no head. Sweet nose, lots of Brett, but before all very fruity-estery. Nice refreshing taste, spritzy and sweet fuits, but NO excessive sweetness. Woody palate. Light bodied, very refreshing. Untraditional as it may be, I liked it all the same. It’s a great summer beer, in its own right for those with a sweet tooth.

Sampled draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, Sweden.
Dark amber with brief creamy head. Pleasant fruity black cherry aroma. Sweet, clean and rather soft with lightly acidic finish. Refreshing, and surprisingly complex. Oddly this faro has the most character of any of the Mort Subite beers I've sampled.