Bosbes
Description
Bosbes
History / Other Notes
Blueberries and lambic, I always doubted if it could ever be a match. Challenge accepted. While blueberries are one of the best tasting berries in my opinion, they develop a medicinal, dirty leathery, forest soil and harsh tannic character when made into a fruit lambic. Since 2015 I have tried several test batches to find a solution to this problem. In 2019 our friend Jesper Holm visited us in the summer, and he brought 10 kilos of fresh blueberries from the forests surrounding his village. I condensed all the information from previous experiments, and my conclusion was that the longer you do a skin maceration of blueberries in lambic, the more it picks up the characteristics I described above. So we did a one day maceration, pressed the blueberries to extract the juice out of it, but left the skins behind. It tasted like actual blueberries and lambic, without those nasty off flavours. It is generally accepted that the longer the maceration, the better the beer. This beer proves the opposite. This tiny batch was blended with a tiny bit of Gorsem kriek lambic and bottled in September 2019.