Lindemans Faro

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

This little 25cl bottle pours clear copper with white head. The aroma is on the sweet side with inviting notes of yeasty tartness backed by slightly funky to stale cherries and slightly moldy, sticky and oozing plums and musty basement. The taste begins with a sweet/tart like cherry and sweet green apple candy note. Behind those notes are moderate layers of sour lemon / lime, tart yeastiness and then a big more sweet sugar like notes attempting to even this out. It ends on the dry side as the moderate tartness and sourness leave the palate fairly dry into the after taste with lingering notes of lemon, ripe sweet green apple and cherry.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Just to sort out some beers I have had, but didn’t rate. Bottle at home, It was an interesting beer, strange sweet/sourness, it was drinkable but i had a hard time drinking the complete bottle.

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

25cl bottle from Sip, Tallinn, Pours clear amber with a modest off-white head. Farmyard, sour berries and sugar in the aroma. Sweet, funky and sour. Refreshing and quite enjoyable! Can easily have a bottle of this from time to time.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

12 bottle at The Bayou
Appearance: Pours a clear amber with a small off-white head that dissipates quickly
Aroma: Green apples and tart fruit
Taste: Sweet malts, sugar and some tart fruit. Sweet finish
This was ok, but too sweet for me.

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

Bottle: Poured a reddish brown amber with a white head. Aroma seemed to have that sour berry fruit smell with a hint of sugar. Nice sweet berry and malt flavor. Kinda diffrent than what I expected from all the ingredients I read.

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

This beer gets straight 8's. I picked this up from Honeygo Beer and Wine in White Marsh, MD. This has been an elusive style for me to track down. It is nice to try once, but I won't be having it again. I did not hold this reaction against the score. It is sour but candy sweet at the same time. The color is a reddish/pinkish color. Very sweet. I split this with my neighbor Joey.

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

Acquired via trade with Chopz. 37.5cl bottle. 4.5%. Pours a fairly big foamy bubbly off-white head and has a reddish amber appearance with sediments clearly visible. Lacing is ok. Aromas are quite varied, some sour notes, cherries, dry fruits, finishes with what can only be described as humid basement aroma. Wow. Flavours are all over the place. It's sweet, slightly sour, some tarty notes, some hints of apples. Cherries, sweet and caramel malts, a bit yeasty. Well balanced sweetness and bitterness. Slight drying sensation on the palate.

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

Doubles sealed with a cap and cork. Pours a clear red amber with no head to think of. Lightly carbonated and has some noticeable bits floating around in the glass. Aroma is quite strong and sour that you can pick up much of anything else. What I can detect is wine and vinegar. Taste is decently sour with a hint of sweetness. Nice wine grape hit as well. Finishes off like a glass of wine. I like it.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

750 ml capped and corked bottle, as a 4.5 % ABV and labelled " Foudroyante Faro ". Poured in the original Lindemans lambic glass a light hazy and mid-brown coloured Faro with a short two fingers beige foamy head that had a long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Sustained carbonation. Some lacing. The aroma is caramel malts, candy sugar, pronounced woody notes and a light sourish feeling. The flavour is candy sugar, caramel malts and fruity, apples, raisins, berries. The mouthfeel is light crispy, fizzy, high sweety and sticky. This light bodied Lambic has a dry sugary finish. Not really my way, but a Faro true to the standarts of the style.

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

Kind of difficult to judge by style as this is my first faro. Kind of unfair to judge against beers in general since I drink such darn good ones. Pours dark amber, clear with tiny head. Smells yeasty and minerally, apple topnotes. The flavor doesn't match that at all, being very sweet. Sweetness dominates; there is nothing else to mention That Belgian candy makes itself known. Strange, worth trying, not my thing.