Jazz and lambic share an uncommon faith in the unexpected. A standard begins with familiar notes before musicians wander into inspired improvisation. Lambic begins with centuries-old tradition before wild yeasts, patient oak, fruit, and time compose a performance no brewer can completely script. Every barrel is a little different. Every bottle has its own personality. Every pour discovers a new melody.
That’s why Peaks & Pints pairs them on the first Sunday of every month during Jambic & Lazz, when Kareem Kandi and his jazz trio fill our Events Room from 5 to 8 p.m. with the same blend of discipline, spontaneity, and joyful exploration found inside Belgium’s most celebrated spontaneous ales. If you can’t settle into the music tonight, you can still follow the performance in your glass with our all-day Sunday Jazz Lambic Flight.
Like a thoughtfully crafted jazz set, this week’s flight unfolds one movement at a time. Lindemans Cuvée René opens with the timeless standard, bright and inviting. De Cam finds the groove, adding earthy depth and quiet complexity. Boon‘s Millésime Kriek steps forward for an elegant solo, its rare Schaarbeek cherries singing with grace. Tilquin stretches into fearless improvisation, layering fruit, funk, oak, and wild fermentation into something beautifully unpredictable. Boerenerf closes with a contemplative encore, where Riesling grapes and spontaneous fermentation linger like the final notes of Kareem Kandi’s saxophone after the room has fallen blissfully silent.
Five extraordinary beers. Kareem Kandi has all his fingers from yesterday. Expect one unforgettable performance.
Peaks & Pints Sunday Jazz Lambic Flight
Lindemans Cuvée René Oude Gueuze
6% ABV | Oude Gueuze | Vlezenbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
A proper oude gueuze has the curious ability to taste both ancient and startlingly alive, like stumbling into a century-old jazz club where the band somehow started five minutes ago. This blend of young and mature lambics unfurls bright notes of green apple, lemon peel, white grape, and dry sherry before drifting through whispers of oak, hayloft, and the friendly funk of a well-loved cellar. Fine Champagne-like bubbles lift the whole affair into a crisp, mouthwatering finish that cleanses the palate while quietly insisting on another sip. It’s elegant without showing off, rustic without becoming rough—a beautifully balanced reminder that patience can be every bit as intoxicating as hops.
De Cam Oude Gueuze
6.5% ABV | Oude Gueuze | Gooik, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Nothing here clamors for attention, which is precisely the point. Instead, quiet complexity unfurls in patient waves: bright lemon zest, crisp green apple, dried hay, weathered oak, and the earthy perfume of an old stone cellar where time has become more collaborator than clock. Fine natural carbonation lifts whispers of leather, wildflowers, and citrus into a finish that lands bone dry yet remarkably graceful, cleansing the palate with the confidence of a perfectly timed cymbal brush.
Brouwerij Boon Oude Schaarbeekse Kriek Millésime 2020
6.5% ABV | Oude Kriek Lambic | Lembeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Vintage has a curious way of slowing time, and this one lingers with the quiet confidence of an old jazz record played on immaculate vinyl. Schaarbeek cherries steep into 18-month-old lambic, lending vivid layers of tart cherry flesh, almond, rosehip, and red currant before oak and earthy cellar funk gently gather the melody. Bright acidity keeps every note in tune, while delicate tannins and a bone-dry finish leave the palate polished rather than puckered.
Gueuzerie Tilquin Oude Kriek de Schaerbeek Tilquin à l’ancienne (2023–2024)
7% ABV | Oude Kriek Lambic | Bierghes, Wallonia, Belgium
Three hundred twenty grams of rare Schaerbeek cherries per liter of lambic is less a recipe than an act of delicious obsession. The fruit arrives dark, tart, and quietly wild, spilling flavors of sour cherry skin, almond pit, old oak, damp cellar stone, and the faint perfume of autumn leaves after rain. Every sip seems to breathe, shifting from bright acidity to earthy funk before drifting into a long, dry finish that refuses to hurry offstage. This is spontaneous fermentation at its most poetic: a beer that feels less like it was brewed than patiently persuaded by time, microbes, wood, and fruit into singing an impossibly beautiful jazz standard.
Boerenerf Riesling Oogst 2022
8% ABV | Lambic with Riesling Grapes | Huizingen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Somewhere between a wild Belgian farmhouse and a sunlit Riesling vineyard, this remarkable hybrid discovers a language all its own. Aromas of white peach, lime blossom, lemon zest, and crisp green apple rise from the glass before the spontaneous fermentation answers with earthy funk, soft oak, damp stone, and that unmistakable whisper of living yeast. Bright acidity pirouettes alongside delicate grape tannins, creating a texture that’s equal parts sparkling wine and contemplative lambic, finishing bone dry with a mineral snap that lingers like the final shimmering note from a tenor saxophone echoing through an empty cellar.
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