BEER REVIEW: 310

BREWER: Anthony Martin, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 

STYLE: Lambic

ABV: 8%

VESSEL: 33cl brown bottle

DATE OF POST: 15th September 2023

 

JYMI SAY’S…

Waterloo – an 8% Red Cherry Lambic beer from our beautiful brewing buddy’s over in Belgium.

8% you say?! Must be pretty full on??!! Well it’s not. At all. Booze wise anyway. See, of course this tastes like a lambic beer which is obviously alcoholic, but you cannot taste the booze AT ALL!!! Which, seeing how drinkable this brew is, is nothing short of flippin’ lethal!!

Honestly, if some cowboy host wanted to feed you this at a BBQ you would be more cooked than the burnt sausages let me tell you. Soooo drinkable… Soooo strong!!!

But, how does it actually taste? Well, in one word, bloomin’ lovely! Which worryingly backs up the sausage metaphor.

Waterloo is all the cherries, all of them. There is an absolute tonne of flavour jammed into this brew. The cherry tornado is complimented by a soft red apple hint that then leads to a faint sourness.

This is a superb beer but please, if you’re going to take it on, heed my warning and put a survival plan in place before you do.

Jymi’s Rating: 89%

 

SAMMY SAY’S…

Waterloo is an awesome beer.  It’s just wonderful.  It’s so good, I could be convinced that this is what Abba named their now famous song after… well, maybe not.

While it will come as no surprise that cherry dominates both the nose and the taste, there are plenty of other surprises when drinking Waterloo.

Surprise 1 – there’s a strong pinch of almond on the nose, making it not dissimilar to the aroma of a bakery cooking up a batch of Bakewell Tarts.

Surprise 2 – apple notes play a wonderful companion to the cherry star.  And they are wonderful beer friends.

Surprise 3 – despite the boat load of cherriness, Waterloo is perfectly balanced between sweetness and a great bitter flick at the end.

Surprise 4 – you will not believe that it’s 8% abv.  You just cannot notice it.

Surprise 5 – Waterloo has good body in the mouth.

There’s only one way to sum up Waterloo: Cherry-o-baby.

Awesome beer.

Sammy’s Rating: 93%

 

MUSE ON BOOZE RATING: 91%

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M O B 2023