Brouwerij Liefmans Goudenband

While at TJ’s Restaurant and Drinkery in Paoli for their 9th Anniversary Party, I ordered a glass of Brouwerij Liefmans Goudenband. The beer pours a black color with practically no head. The aroma is slightly tart and consists of cherry, wine, oak, and chocolate. The taste is smooth and light bodied with a solid chocolate base. Wine, cherry, and oak flavors come out with a light tartness, and the after taste leaves red wine flavor behind. The alcohol content is 8.0% ABV. I can’t say the Goudenband was as tart as I was expecting, but it still was a delicious beer with a variety of intersecting flavors.

Brouwerij Lindemans Gueuze Cuvee Rene

Out of curiosity, I looked up Brouwerij Lindemans Gueuze Cuvee Rene on BeerAdvocate while at Abbey Bar at Appalachian Brewing Company. I hadn’t seen this beer before, and it didn’t look like the typical Lindeman’s product. To my surprise, the ratings came back as a 91 from users and a 100 from the brothers, and a friend and I decided to order it. The beer pours a golden color with a foamy white head. The aroma is funky and reminiscent of a barnyard with lemon, earth, and hay. The taste is tart and lightly puckering. Most of the puckering comes from a lemon flavor that is accented nicely with hay, funk, and pepper. The alcohol content is 5.0% ABV. This was a surprisingly good beer from a most unexpected place. I thoroughly enjoyed this example of a gueuze, and I most definitely would order it again.

Brouwerij Lindemans Faro Lambic

I ordered a glass of Brouwerij Lindemans Faro Lambic from Al’s of Hampden on a recent visit. The beer pours a brown-amber color with a thin bubbly white head. The aroma consists of cherry, vinegar, malts, yeast, and powdered candy. The taste has a big brown sugar profile and has a lightly tart cherry flavor which yields a small pucker. There is a yeast and light biscuit after taste. The alcohol content is 4.2% ABV. This sessionable beer has quite a delectable flavor, namely the brown sugar sweetness, but that is balanced quite well with the tart cherry flavor.