Boon Oude Geuze Mariage Parfait

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

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.

Poured to a champagne color with lots of carbonation bubbles, a thin whte head that dissipated very quickly and no lacing. Nose was a pleasant tart fruit, and the initial taste was the same. Unfortunately, this sour fruit quickly faded to a taste that was more stale in nature, and the finish was dry and stale as well. I may have just gotten an old bottle, but I was not nearly as impressed with this one as I have been other lambics.

375. On sale at the supermarket. Gotta love closeouts. Pours a cloudy coppery amber with a towering fluffy white head that leaves very intermittent lace on the way down. Humongous funky nose--tart and sharply cherry-like under a blasting heap of horse blanket and barnyard.
Nice medium body that drinks very cleanly with tight, soft carbonation. Company tonight remarked that "it just tastes like sour carbonation; I want apples or something in there to give flavor to the sour. The ’funk’ smells more like a skunk." Pretty hard for me to argue with that. Not sure when I’d drink this one again.

0.375 l bottle. Yellow-brown color with diminishing head. Leathery, grapefruity and sulphury aroma. Acidic, grapefruity, lemony, woody and dry flavor. Long dry lemony and grapefruity finish. Excellent!

[bottle] Very hazy golden yellow color. Nice funky yeast aroma, with some interesting lemon citrus character. Flavors are a complex mix of tart yeast flavors, with plenty of funk. Very dry, puckering finish. Nice bright carbonation. Overall, very nice.

Hazy golden with small head. Quite malty for a Geuze - found notes of leather, lemon and wood aswell in the aroma. Nice balanced sournes in flavor with hints of horseblanket.