Boon Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Lembeek, Belgium

hazy golden color. Poured into a thin flute glass. Huge white head with really nice lacing on the glass. Aroma is your typical horse blanket, barnyard smells you get from a good lambic, but it seems to be intensified, and more prominent than i have ever smelled before. Flavour is a smack in the face! So sour, super sour, easily the sourest Geuze/lambic i have ever had, but i’m really enjoying it though. Leave a very nice citrc sourness on my palate that i’m enjoying long after the beer is gone.

375mL bottle. Deep Golden Color, white head, great lacing. Aroma is tart (like a bag of sweetarts), bready, and yeasty. Flavor has an unique sweet acetic medium sourness, tart, straw, barnyard... in a good way. Pinot Gris, Apple Cider. Perfect. Balanced. Very enjoyable.

Bottle from Hopduvel, Gent. Cloudy amber with a big white head. Aromas of tart fruit, citrus acidity and the farmyard. The flavour was of yeast with more tart fruit and a very dry, mouth-puckering finish with some warming alcohol. Very good.

On tap @ Brew Kettle 10/5/07: Deep golden amber w/ a lasting just off white head. Classic aroma of lambic... Cat urine and baby diaper fecal aromas at first, but becomes lightly herbal and earthy, sour, lightly acetic and overall just funky! Malt overshadowed by everything else, but pils maltish. That same funky, fecal aroma seems to come through in the flavor, at least it’s what I might thing fecal would be... Mildly tart, not overly sour, and oddly enough, lightly bitter finish possibly caused by the extreme dryness. Also more funk, light sugary and green apple flavors. Aftertaste is herbal, dry, acidic not unlike the aftertaste of vomit after leaving the mouth... Very sharp bile like flavor, but that’s just my opinion! Light body, medium CO2, dry, puckering m/f. Not a fan! I rate this as my personal feeling on this particular beer, and my dislike of the style. It is how I personally feel about it, and does it should not reflect poorly on the craftsmaship of said beer. In itself it is a fine representation of a lambic to be enjoyed by sour beer lovers... Rated mostly on style and craftmanship opposed to my personal feeling about the beer!

33cl bottle via tever. Succulent tart apple skin, white tea edges and sweet lemongrass and lemoncello. Ah, that lovely farmyard character and unique blast of acidity. So delightful. Acts a little restrained, but really on point and enjoyable. Pours with a sheen of opal through a lightly milky brass colored liquor. A top a quietly settling foam of bread color bubbles. Flavor is a gentle, washing rendition, with really poignant chestnut, floral and settled almonds. A curt bite of Buddha’s hand makes the sensation replete. Chews into some earthy cheese and mushroom, before gliding on a tart dryness perfumed with conifer branches. Body edges maybe a little thin and quick, but it has all the nice flavors and a good cottony long smack. Airy. Nice, but not all the way there. Thanks Tom!

375ml bottle (Porterhouse, Dublin) On the brown side of orange, little head. Similar to their ordinary oude, beatifully crisp sharp brett. Tart on the tongue, refreshing, and with a huge woody malty body left behind. Covers the alcohol perfectly.

Bottle @ Twickenham BF 07 (Tasting). Pours cloudy amber colour with fluffy white head. Aroma is sulphur / lemon / grassy. Taste is much the same with a nice sourness. Very nice Lambic.

Hazy peachy gold with lively fizzy head that disappears leaving a slight cap. Inviting, though not mind-blowingly intense, aroma. Musty and nice like grandma’s closet. Fruity and fresh like a farm house in fall. A nice mellow musty funk. Very accessible gueze. Flavors are well-rounded and centering on grapefruit peel and pith. Very dry, and not super sour. Has a nice bitterness in the finish that is natural like from citrus rind. The high carbonation prickles. Solid, traditional gueze with good character.