Belle-Vue Sélection Lambic

Formerly brewed at Belle-Vue (InBev)
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

RBESG Sheffield 2009 Grand Tasting at the Harlequin. 1999 Vintage. Clear orange colour, white head. Aroma of sour apples, a hint of wheat, woody sourness. Flavour is mouthpuckering sour, nailpolish, light fruity notes but everything is overpowered by the extreme acidic sourness. Glad to have tried this, but I can’t appreciate it. Way way way too sour, and the nailpolish/acetone wasn’t helping either. Can’t make more of it.

Bottle at WSF. 1993 vintage. Pours hazy orange with no head. Aromas of wood, matured beer, fruit and earthy notes. Tart and dry flavour with notes of balsamic vinegar, dust and matured beer.
8 - 2 - 7 - 2 - 15 = 3,4

Bottle at DHVL. 1999 vintage. Pours slight hazy golden coloured with a small white head. Aromas of balsamic vinegar, wood, musty basement, honey, bees wax and grain. Spicy and citric flavour with notes of vinegar, red currants and funk.
9 - 3 - 9 - 3 - 17 = 4,1

1993 bottle at WSF 2009: Cloudy orange with a small white head. Funky fruit, wood and leather aroma, covered in a dusty and earthy blanket. Dry and tart dusty old flavour.

1999 bottle at De Heeren van Liedekercke: Funky leather, citrus and balsamic aroma. Very acidic, almost too sharp. Complex funky and balsamic character.

Pours cloudy dark gold with thin white head. Lightly sour aroma of lemon, fruit and wood. Puckery sour taste of lemons and cherries soaked in white vinegar.

Courtesy of northernbrews @ his November ’08 sour tasting

Bottle: The aroma is musty apple cider, sour cherries, and a hint of vinegar. It pours a slightly hazy orange with a minimal white head that quickly fades to nothing. The flavor has huge sourness with sour cherries, lemon, and sour apple...mouth puckering sourness and very acidic. Light bodied with minimal carbonation. This stuff was amazing.

99. Very thin and extremely acidic, almost nasty so dusty old brew with a rough, extremely dry finish. Some lemon and funk alongside oak underneath the more forward acidity. Still interesting and drinkable but l nothing I would care to try again really (3.6) Update: Seems I ended up having it again, this time a 92 vintage which blev my mind, extremely balanced with a lovely woody and fruity complexity, medium funk and way less vinegary than the 99 I had. Just gorgeous with all sorts of barnyard and wet leather notes, grass and sour berries. Very complex.

Bottle thanks BrianK for the share. Pours a hazy amber honey body with a thin off white lacing. Lots of sour lactic acid, very acidic with notes of acetic acid. Light woodiness, dry with hints of lemon and leather. Just to dam acidic i need a tums s/p this one.

Had this tonight, wow is this sour. I think some of the enamel on my teeth was destroyed thanks to this beer. Great tartness, lots of horeblanketness, barnyard aroma and flavor, sour as hell! and great to drink. A true treat to have.