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Nath (2024)

Very dry oaky, tart/acidic ( but not vinegary) semi sweet fruity Rhubarb. To my surprise, I quite liked this. Refreshing.

Aronia Lambic (2019)

😲 Love this very unusual Cantillon. Dark berries, smoke, low acidity. Weird and amazing.

Vigneronne (2013)

A bit more dry and acid than I remember from the later vintages, still nice green grapes.

Moeder Lambic Fontainas Cuvée X Browsel

Starts soft & fruity ends dry and acid

Encrypted Dimensions

Musty dank ripe fruits in a dense piney dry body. 👍 🇩🇰

King Sequoia

Fruity, citric grapefruity zesty, lovely bitter balance

SUBLIME!

This thubarb and red, black and white currant Farmhouse might not be in original style, but it’s delicious (IMHO). Dry light tart from the berries, touch of farm funk; a summer all nighter.

Barbera (2022)

Nice! Sweet’ish light tart blue grapes and some sweeter berry (strawberry).

Fou' Foune Still (2023)

Drogone Lambic 2023

KBS Espresso (2021)

Sublime “snappy” espresso taste with a smooth balanced hint of bourbon. Perfect “morgongök”.

Tyrnilambic Baie D'Argousier (2021)

Very tart dry astringent acidic Sea buckthorn. Not appreciated at all by my mainly lager drinking buddy. Far from undrinkable to me; also pretty far from exceptional.

KBS Maple Mackinac Fudge (2022)

Cellar cold it’s a bit disappointing; thin, mainly dark bitter chocolate & coffee; basically no maple, fudge or BBA. Warming up those flavors develops gradually to a balanced enjoyability. This beer needs patience if below room temperature.

Fou’ Foune (2023)

Waiting beer

Cinsault 2022

Soft red semi sweet tart vinous grapes

T42 (2021)

Likely amazing, if you’re an enthusiast. To me a basic soft tart lambic

Barbera

Dry acidic vinous soft red berries

50°N-4°E (2022)

Very dry oaky with a hint of cognac in the end.

Signorina (2022)

Nice soft grape red vinous

Scarabée

Dry tart vinous funky overripe fruits

Lambic Vin Jaune / La Vie Est Belge (2022)

Tart curry/nutty/fruity flavor mix. Weirdly enjoyable

Old Fashioned 2022

Enjoyable tart fruity/orange with a hint of the whisky barrel. @ Tasting with the Danes, and some

Cantillon Grenache Blanc (2022)

Lovely tart mild white whine / grape flavor

Big Worster

Sweet ripe fruits, boozy, honey; almost Mead territory if it wasn’t for a spicy light dry finish. A full bottle would be impossible to master, but as a small slow sipper it’s fun due to its extreme uniqueness.

Castle Black Stout

Borderline too pastry (for me), but the not over excessively sweet oily BBA blend of dark chocolate sauce, vanilla, dark fruits, licorice and dry bitter coffee won me over. Excellent lunch dessert!

Ice Cold Pilsner

Crisp, a touch fruity/citric and very bitter. 👍

Kentucky Bourbon Stout (KBS) (2021)

Can’t say this improved after 2 years storage (but not ideal conditions to be honest). Pretty harsh burnt coffee, the BBA seems to have faded and the body thinned out. Far from bad, but not what I anticipated. Really nice with the leftover cheddar though.

Barleywine

Bbf 2018. Getting a bit over its peak. Soft & elegant but lost its power.

Saint Lamvinus (2022)

Fruity, dry blue semisweet blue grapes, red vinous. Unusually low funk & tart. My my pref, excellent

Just the One Simcoe

Another moderate sweet tropical…etc we all tried uncountable times before. Not bad, but I’m getting 🥱

Malaphor

Tasty fruity roasty easy drinker

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

Surprisingly this seems to already reached its peak. The chocolate & coffee flavors def softened with time resulting in the oaky bourbon being more dominant, giving a much boozier brew. I wouldn’t say drink fresh, but preferably within 2-3 years. -0,5.

Lambic Grenache Blanc (2021)

Not being a “normal” worshipper of Cult Cantillon, this surprised me by being one of the tastiest Cantillon I’ve tried. Close resemblance to a Grape Ale in its vinous, grapey, dry moderate tart low funk style.

90 Minute Imperial IPA (2022)

In 1999’ish this started it all. Later kicked off my understanding that there are beers beyond crappy lagers, in the 2015’ish in Beijing, and I haven’t found it since, until now. Weirdly, rarely any IPA today match this original excellent IPA flavor. 🥇🥰

Kriek Boon

Introduced a few of the sweeter Belgian Krieks to the Swedish female non beer drinking Xmas crowd. It’s a total hit. For me they’re a “bit” too sweet

Bottle Shop Series Highball Drifter

Xmas feeling in this enjoyable dark ale with orange peel/extract & soft fat bourbon aging.

Deep Mango Pool

The mango is strong in this one, but not very sweet and just light tart. More pure fruity mango. Nice CPH finish!

Winter Haze

Nice intense bitterness in this citric forward tropical one

Fou’ Foune (2022)

Something in the basic Cantillon yeast strain doesn’t fully agree with my taste buds, but this tart fruity apricot blend isn’t too bad. Fun on tap. Beyond comprehension that a bottle sells for up to 200$ in the US 🙄. Say no more…🤐

Raw Power

Fresh, crisp, fruity, citric, dry bitter. Balanced, ridiculously easy drinking. A true all nighter.

Shoulders of Giants

Low malt & fruits, but superb piney bitterness.

Dahlia

Too easy drinking…

Planet Caravan

Nice citric piney, with fresh shrimps

Zelda

Red grapefrukt & citrics. Dry grassy finish.

Azzurri Amalgam

Oh yeah, there’s the gnarly pine I love. A basic Westcoaster. A relief after sweet banana pudding vanilla… I think I leave it there 😉

Breakfast Stout (2020)

Left this 2 years hoping it would mature and be easy drinking. Sadly the very bitter reduced espresso amplified, a tart touch developed and it got thinner. Alas, no aging candidate. Maybe not fair to score, but in case anyone finds an oldie, just skip it.

Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) (2018)

Many beers benefit to cellar, this questionable. Lighter body & diffused flavors didn’t bring back old memories. Hard to score. I leave it as before.

Backwoods Bastard (2020)

One of my all time fav Wee’s I’ve revisited off and on over the years. From the 2018 slight disappointment, it’s now back in good ol’ excellent style. Creamy dark smoked fruits in balanced BBA with a dry spicy finish. Upping the score to where it belongs.

Rosé De Gambrinus (2022)

Yeah, this is a tasty “basic” C! Fresh like this it’s full of light tart sweeter raspberry flavors and less funky yeast.

Drogone Lambic (2020)

Nuit Bruxelloise

Dry tart dark berries

Drogone Lambic (2021)

Elegant light tart dry red wine

Lambic d’Aunis (2021)

Soft dry tart red wine. Very nice!

Lambic Vin Jaune / La Vie Est Belge (2020)

Lots of nutty tart vinegar fruity notes in this. Complex. Really different. Interesting.

Muscat Petits Grains

This moved much closer to a Grape Ale. Almost no Brett & a lot of wine influence in the flavor. Soft fresh light sweet grape flavor. Mildly tart. Dry finish. Very enjoyable

Beck-Hartweg

More influenced by the wine & less brett. Still with the base funky dry tart apple base.

Cantillon Chardonnay (2018)

Parallel tasting of the beer & the wine from the BA. Influenced by the wine with dry yeasty young apples.

HORAL's Oude Geuze Mega Blend (2021)

Ultra dry, super tart, mega acidic, very fizzy. Like biting a tiny apple “child” 2 months ahead of it is eatable. My friends love it, I can drink it…

Kriek 100% Lambic Bio (2019)

Intermediate basic Belgian mouthwash 😜

Specular

Thick chewy well balanced moderately sweet dank tropicals with orange pithy finish. Lethally tasty. Not a trace of alcohol.

Black '2018'

Boozy, extremely reduced charred coffee, very sweet, even tart. To say off balance is kind. An odd one for sure.

KBS Maple Mackinac Fudge (2020)

Feared this would be pastry’ish; nope. Creamy roasty dry bitter coffee, dark chocs, fudgy vanilla maple sweetness but not overpowering, soft BBA hug. Got an Amaretto like flashback. Balanced, very enjoyable. 👍

Beer Geek Fudgesicle BA Rye Whiskey

One of those rare days the top shelf is appropriate. This a marvelous blend of assorted goodie flavors with a subtle Rye Whiskey barrel undertow. Sweet, but thankfully not pastry sweet. Excellent balance. Top of the world.

Grolsch Premium Lager

Bought cases of Grolsch from foreign ships in the harbor for peanuts in my youth (a looong time ago). Nicer porcelain caps then. Memories…🤪. Don’t think I’ve tried it since. Still a taste rich crispy malty Pilsner. Nice with food.

Underground Mountain Brown (2020)

Coffee forward soft bourbon barrel. Nice sipper

Hop Opera

Thick sweet citric tropical boozy fruit juice. Hint of dryness in the end. Without bitterness. One dimensional.

Big Lushious

Must admit I’m a sucker for tart berry stouts, if balanced. Just love the tart “distortion” between the berries balancing the underlying charry coffee choco stout flavors. Even if this could’ve had a bit more stout impact, it’s a keeper.

Kentucky Bourbon Stout (KBS) (2021)

Young and a bit rough, but still among the better price/performance BBA stouts around.

Oculus Orbus

Potent. Ripe tropical fruits, dry grape finish. Tasty.

Vapeur

Chewy basic Piggy colab NEIPA with all familiar flavors and a faint bitterness. A bit muted/careful hop impact. Canned 4 months ago, could be it? Nice enough.

Double Dippy Doo

It’s rare to taste this balanced transition from moderately sweet creamy mouthfilling citric tropicals to dry bitterness. This smooth merge of flavors few brewers accomplish, none overpowering, just a flow. I guess it’s even better fresh, but yummy as is.

Traverse the Polyverse

Middle of the road NEIPA with all familiar flavors. A notch on the sweet side but a delayed dry herbal bitterness compensate. A bit light on the hop impact but far from bad. Easy drinker.

Vigneronne (2018)

Ok to revisit. Very dry oaky tarty vinous grapes with a hint of fruits. Not among my fav Cs I must admit. Quite harsh and offensive on the palette, but not undrinkable.

This Is Fine

“Fine” I leave to the Braggot fans. Count me out. A weird mix of grapefruit honey and assorted odd flavors. First and likely last Braggot I drink. Went into the sink

Wood will fall down.

Tart, very citric with sweet oily fruity support. Nah...

Stedsegrøn / Evergreen

Great flavor rich 3,5% Session. Packs a surprising load of citrics & stone fruits. Even some dry bitterness in the end. Among the best “alcohol free” beers I’ve tried 👍

Beer Geek Fudgesicle BA Bourbon

Borderline over-pastry (for me), but the background BBA breaks the vanilla fudge sweetness to become a tasty dessert sipper. Another 6-12 months in the bourbon barrels wouldn’t have hurt, but good as is. (Yep, pubs are open in Sweden, but it’s not crowded

Breakfast Stout (2020)

Never tried this before, and now it’s at my small town Systembolaget. 😲 And, in the babypic pack banned in Sweden. Creamy intense harsh roasted reduced espresso & bitter dark chocolate. I think I let my remaining bottles rest a year or more to soften...

Blow Out

I admit low expectations picking up this 2-3€ bottle at a Hypermarket. But...lots of tropical stone fruits, nice citrics/grape & decent dry bitter finish, oily body. A bit generic & on the sweet side but way better than many others at higher price ranges.

Beer Geek Brunch Weasel Barrel Aged Calvados

2012 Ed. Hard to judge after a bunch of 16-17% stouts... A touch of apple in this charry dry coffee chocolate stout that kept well over the years.

Oude Geuze Boon Black Label Edition N°4

Dry young green apples & citrics. Quite harsh. Palette transformation in progress.

K:rlek Höst/Vinter (2020)

Oily fruits, citrics & dry bitter grass in a strange thin blend. I can’t figure out what’s wrong, but it doesn’t please my palette.

KBS Espresso (2020)

The excellent KBS aged on espresso beans. A tad lighter but far from the coffee shock I expected; it’s an elevated coffee kick well merged into the KBS. Love it!

Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) (2017)

Final one from a six grab. Turning softer and less expressive now, I think I was right not saving this longer. Even if it’s missing a bit of the dynamic impact, the score stands since it’s still a lovely beer, albeit more elegant. Bye bye 2017 😢

Sundried Saison

Some beers tastes best in their intended environment. This as a refresher for sweaty hard working farm hands. Spot on. Citric yeasty spicy dry. Maybe not the best saison I’ve tried, but atm it’s lovely. 🥵