Cantillon Faro

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Poured up at Cantillon with clear deep gold to copper body and almost no head at all. The aroma is a big and yummy kiss of bread, musty funkiness and then a wide variety of fruity goodness. These notes are going together wonderfully with fruit like peach, apricot and plum. The taste is right there too starting with a pleasing fresh bready type grainy wort with a smooth yeasty tartness and plenty of fruit like peaches, apricots, plums and a bit of sugary sweet mango. Man this one is fresh, crisp, complex and refreshing. Love it. The fruit, yeasty tartness and graininess play so well together. It is very tempting to skip everything else planned today and tip more and more of this stuff back until they close.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Somewhat opaque darker yellow with bubbly white foam head. Bittersweet aroma and taste, you have to get used to this. Interesting mouth feel. (Brussels 201405)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Had this in Switzerland last summer on tap (I was unaware that lambics could be on tap). This is the best damn tasing faro you will ever taste. Candy sugar married to a blended lambic is heavenly! A cloudy reddish-gold pour starts it all.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours with a golden body topped by a medium thick head with some lacing. It’s slightly sweet and fruity with a slightly sour undertone and a hint of bitterness. Very nice. Light to medium bodied, crisp and dry.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 4

I was lucky enough to try some of this at the Cantillon brewery after taking the tour. From what it sounds like, this is the only place you can get this beer, as they claimed they don't bottle it for distribution because the large amounts of sugar would cause the bottles to explode after about a month. So I tried this beer having no idea what to expect and boy was I shocked. The sweetness was so unusual to me. I had a difficult time drinking this one. Just about no carbonation in this one, though it was poured from a jug that was already opened. I can't fairly rate this beer, but overall I can say that I wasn't thoroughly enjoying this unique style of lambic.