solera lambic tasting notes
with a little over a month down since the bottling of my solera lambic (and around 19 months since the first fill was brewed), I cracked open a bottle to see how it was doing.
- solera lambic
- appearance: perfect clarity, straw yellow with thorough, fine carbonation. this was the fifth or sixth bottle I opened, and a couple of them were already overcarbed even without the addition of yeast at bottling (maybe due to stratification of the sugar? I have never run into this). I can definitely see how geuzes can be put together with little to no sugar – the yeast/bugs involved are super aggressive!
- aroma: “authentic” complex lambic funk, for lack of better descriptors. citrus and barnyard.
- taste: citrus, hay, stone fruit, with a balanced, smooth lactic acidity and a dry finish.
- overall: I’m very happy with how this beer turned out, even with such a short time in the bottle – it holds its own as a solid example of the style. I’m also pumped that I have close to three cases of this and another six gallons on cherries, all of which should improve with age…