I tried a beer last night that smelled and tasted like FEET!

[arbusto_baboso]

Or rather, it tasted like I imagine sweaty sox that had been over feet would taste. It was Cantillon Vigneronne, a Belgian fruit lambic. Normally I like lambics. I don't know wtf was wrong with this one. GAK!

[Richardo]

1. You coulda had a Mickey's Big Mouth and had the same experience

[arbusto_baboso]

2. For considerably less money, too.

It musta been skunked or otherwise spoiled, is all I can think.

[Left Is Write]

3. That would be my guess...

I can't think of any other reason a Belgian lambic would be so nasty!

[arbusto_baboso]

4. It was the first and only "grape lambic" I've ever had.

I don't know if that had anything to do with it. It was extremely dry. Had some strange cheesy kinds of smells to it, too. That would be an extremely bad sign in a conventional beer, but with the wild yeasts used in a lambic, I just kinda went ahead and tasted anyway.

Bad call on my part.

Or maybe I'm just becoming a beer snob.

[Ikonoklast]

5. You know what feet taste like?

You kinky little monkey, you.

[arbusto_baboso]

8. Just don't ask me what spleen tastes like.

If I told you, I would have to kill you.

[Ikonoklast]

6. You know what feet taste like?

You kinky little monkey, you.

[RadiationTherapy]

7. Hops in its dried, herb form is pretty feety.

As is valerian root.

[Lethe]

21. as is weed

hops's closest relative

[Swede]

9. Woke up on the wrong side of the town? Again.

[HopeHoops]

10. Hell, Bud ALWAYS smells and tastes like feet.

If it was a lambic, it was probably allowed to get too warm. They should never be exposed to temperatures above 70 degrees.

[arbusto_baboso]

11. I just checked the bottle and it was WAY past its "use by" date, too.

[HopeHoops]

12. Oh, that will do it - fruit beer doesn't keep well.

[Initech]

13. I tried a hopless beer in Belgium. Wasn't exactly what I thought it was going to be.

[arbusto_baboso]

14. What was it? I'm something of a Belgian beer-geek.

Was it a Flemish Sour?

[seemunkee]

15. Try Mikkeller It’s Alright!

Uses a wild yeast and tastes like blue cheese. Was at a beer bar and my son tried it, might have been OK with food but on its own it is very strong.

[arbusto_baboso]

16. I've never seen that one in Cali.

I can get a lot of different Belgians at my local BevMo or smaller liquor stores, but I've never encountered that one.

[arbusto_baboso]

20. I researched Mikkeler. It's actually Dutch, not Belgian.

I'm sure it's nice, but it ain't Belgian.

[NJmaverick]

17. Could have gone bed

after all beer is a perishable

[arbusto_baboso]

18. That's pretty much my conclusion.

[NJmaverick]

22. I think they usually call it "skunky' when it turns

[arbusto_baboso]

23. Oh, I know skunky, and this was wayyyyyyy beyond skunky....

[Xipe Totec]

19. Was it a Château Lafite? n/t

[nomorenomore08]

24. I once tried a beer called Black Hart Stout that tasted, inexplicably, like moldy cheese.

I know a lot of stouts, including Guinness, are somewhat bitter, but this one was just nasty. It wasn't even the good kind of hoppy bitterness - like I said, it tasted like moldy cheese. Or feet, I guess... :shrug:

[arbusto_baboso]

25. That's just a fault in production or spoilage in a stout.

I'm not really sure about a lambic, as they use wild yeasts, which are very unpredictable.