Lindemans Peche Lambic
Rating: 8 out of 10
In our ongoing Father and Son Thursday night beer review saga, where we never have an offseason, we finally reviewed our very first lambic. For the occasion we chose Lindemans Peche Lambic, which comes to us from Lindemans Farm Brewery in Belgium. Judging from this first review we wouldn't mind visiting Lindemans Farm Brewery, falling into a vat of lambic and trying to drink our way out. Yeah - it was that good.
First off, this is the hardest beer in the world to open. It's capped and corked so you'll need a corkscrew and a strong will because the cap doesn't come off easily. Having a little experience with the bottle opener as we're closing in on 100 beers reviewed we were a little shocked just how hard it was to open. Oh well - the good stuff in life takes a little more work.
Once we got it open we poured our 12 ounce, roughly $6 bottle into an American pint glass and got a temperature of 46.8 F. The ABV comes in about 4%, a little light, but who are we to question the Belgians? The initial pour gave us a small 3/4" fizzy white head that dissipated quickly and left virtually no head lacing. There is a little touch of carbonation to this slightly hazy golden lambic.
The initial aromas are sweet biscuit, wheat, shortcake, floral, cinnamon, nutmeg, cream and a healthy dose of peach. An absolutely great smell - light and sweet. The initial flavors came in as sweet biscuit, cinnamon, cream and peach, but also added some other light fruits to the mix - apple and pear come in much lighter than the peach, but it's there. It's an insanely delicious combination of flavors. The initial flavor notes are a moderate to heavy sweet and a light acidic. The finish flavor notes are a light sweet and moderate tart. Again - this beer works the whole way through to the finish.
The finish duration is short, there's no body lacing to speak of and the mouthfeel is syrupy. On the malt to hop scale it comes in very malty - about 3.5 clicks to the left of balanced on the malty side.
For our bottom line notes we got the rare 7 yes set - Repeatable, drinkable, balanced, harmony, memorable, wow factor and buy again - all yes. It's a wonderful sugary taste with a sweet and syrupy start that evolves to a nice tart finish. It's really a great beer that you think is going to be too sweet, but instead it's just sweet enough. The only knock is the price - about $6 per bottle. If you were to develop a lambic habit you could go bankrupt rather quickly. Ultimately we highly recommend it. It's not a dessert beer, it's dessert.
By John & Dad on August 10, 2008 @ 10 PM with 0 Comments
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