Girardin Faro 1882 - Brouwerij Girardin

drseamus

New York

4.45/5  rDev +19.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

A: Red body with a nice thick off white head. Very blear bodied.

S: Sweet aroma but with a definite subtle brett character. Very great combination of sweet and tart.

T: Very delicious. I love faros. A great version of a geuzue. The extreme tartness from the brett is cut nicely by the candi sugar. A bit more tart than other faros but not in a crisp way. The flavor seems too blended to me. I'd like the sweetness and tartness to stick out separately better.

M: Fairly light bodied but the wheat gives it a bit of chewiness.

D: I could drink it all day long.

Serving type: bottle

03-19-2008 05:11:59 | More by drseamus

Viggo

Ontario (Canada)

4.38/5  rDev +18.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Big thanks to biegaman for bringing this gem back from Belgium.

Pours a clear orange/brown, thin off white head, some lace spots, pretty neat colour. Smell is funky, spices, brown sugar, strawberries and other fruits, canteloupe, nice sweet edge. Taste is sweet, sugar, fruits, caramel/honey middle, funky sour fruit, spiced bread, nice. Mouthfeel is light bodied with low carbonation, silky smooth. Excellent beer, I can't wait to get this again. Big thanks Jan!

Serving type: bottle

11-08-2007 00:42:04 | More by Viggo

Phyl21ca

Quebec (Canada)

3.23/5  rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Bottle: Poured a light reddish/brown color lambic with a big foamy off-white head with limited retention. Aroma is quite funky with limited tartness and acidity which was a bit disappointing. Taste was similar to the gueuze but as if the tartness and acidity had been removed and replace with light sugary notes. Body was a bit too light with some good carbonation. I find it always interesting too try those traditional examples but this one really miss the mark.

Serving type: bottle

08-31-2007 17:00:54 | More by Phyl21ca

grub

Ontario (Canada)

4.2/5  rDev +13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

biegaman brought this back from his trip to belgium and was kind enough to share this rare treat. thanks a bunch jan!

37.5cl bottle, corked and caged.

pours very deep reddish copper, crystal clear. the small fluffy off-white head drops fairly fast and leaves no lace.

aroma is excellent. funky. cherry and sugar. rock candi. bit of dark chocolate too. devil's food cake in a glass. bit of oak and vanilla hiding in the background too.

taste is good. there is a bit of funk and sourness hiding in there, but with a nice fruit and sugar character up front. bit of sour cherry. rock candy again. not as sweet as i was expecting from the aroma. hints of vanilla in the background.

mouthfeel is good. medium well-integrated carbonation. medium body.

drinkability is great. not overly sweet. balanced and very enjoyable. nice refreshing drink on a warm august day. i really liked this one, the best of the three girardin beers we sampled.

Serving type: bottle

08-26-2007 23:22:03 | More by grub

weeare138

Pennsylvania

2.58/5  rDev -30.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Thanks to hopdog for breaking out this bottle. Stamped 01 04 on the cork...
Appears a transparent light amber with a small, light tan head the quickly fades away. Nary a bit of lacing is left around the glass. Tiny amounts of CO2 rise to the top.
Smell is of butter cream, caramel, brown sugar, light funk, oxidation, and mild cork.
Taste is sugary up front, rubbery, fresh plastic bags out of the box(if that makes sense), and light brown sugar.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied, slightly tannic of wood, a bit of a "yuck" factor with the plastic notes and junky garbage outweighing the intriguing wild yeast notes that are present.
This is a weird style and I've got nothing to really compare it against. I'm going by my overall impressions of this brew.

Serving type: bottle

04-02-2007 16:03:51 | More by weeare138

Bierschenker

Belgium

4.88/5  rDev +31.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Girardin is one of my top Geuze brands, so I’m expecting a lot from this Faro.

Served at room temperature. I got a firm grey brown head, but it immediately collapsed. A flocky creamy head remains.
It’s colour is a rusty orange and very small bubbles are running through.
The sent is perfect. A very rich combination of molten butter, malt and geuze sourness.
Taste is heavenly, very strong, complex and varied. Opens with that typical geuze sourness, goes into a full ripe nut / wooden taste that involves yeast and malt tones. Evolves to ripe banana combined with modestly sugared dates. From now the brew becomes lighter and spicier (pepper), some bitterness with sour undertone (resembles an old wine). And it ends off with those barnyard elements, tart too and the yeast plays up while it struggles with the sourness for the finish. In the end they both cross the line at the same time.
Aftertaste gives old dark bread, pepper, slight sourness and mould.

I’m flabbergasted, I have troubles finding the correct words. Let’s keep it to superb! Expectations valorised!!

Serving type: bottle

06-20-2006 20:28:07 | More by Bierschenker