 dmac (913), Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Jul 20, 2008
750 ml cork and caged bottle shared with jimmack and joeec, thanks Jim. Poured your standard lambic-gueuze style, golden pour mostly flat and lifeless and wirh some vigorous pouring I was able to aliven a small whiteish head. Great aroma of green apples, funkiness, very faint smoke and some apple cider vinegar as well. I didn’t care for the body of this one as I found it very thin and flat with only a slight touch of carbonation. I’m sure that was the brewers intention for this style but still not my thing. Taste is sour and funky and I am able to detect a slight touch of cognac on the aftertaste but it is very faint but there. Interesting idea but the cognac aging only seemed to thin the body out and added no aroma and only the faintest flavor. For the money stick to St. Lamvinus.
jeremytoni (638), Swedesboro, New Jersey, USA
Nov 21, 2008 From the bottle poured a hazy pinkish orange color with a good amount of head. Nice tart flavor very crisp with a lingering finsh.
corby112 (300), philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nov 21, 2008 Pours a hazy golden yellowis orange color with a thin fizzy white head. Tart and funky aroma with hints of oak and whiskey. Puckering but not too acidic. Lighter bodied than most gueze. Probably a result of the aging. Nicely balanced, somewhat malty with light carbonation and light crisp fruit. The oak and cognac really come through making this a really unique gueze. Excellent!
Guerde (510), Welcome, Minnesota, USA
Nov 19, 2008 (bottle shared by tytoanderso, thanks Tyler!) Pours light gold with no head whatsoever. Pleasant gueuze aroma, with the usual cut grass and funk, but there are other odd scents that appear. One of the oddities is a dominant smell of hamster bedding, with additional hints of peroxide and leather. Weird, but intriguing. The taste however, is more along the lines of a gueuze, with a lot of brine and salt, dill, lemon peel, mustard, and a lot of funk. Wood shows up in the finish, and the mouthfeel is thicker than most in the style. This was strange, but in a good way.
tytoanderso (1223), St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA
Oct 26, 2008 750ml bottle. 2007. Slightly rotting fruit aroma. Some cork. Plenty of wood tannin. Aged cheesy funk. The requisite barnyard notes. Very dusty and musty basement. Some wet dog. The deeper I dig, I think I can pick out some of the cognac. The acidity pierces the nostrils. Pours a still gold with virtually no appearance of carbonation. The flavor is wonderfully acidic and tart. Awesomely funky. Loads of sourness with some tart fruit and lots of wood. Rather full bodied for the style with an awesomely aggressive sour and tart finish.
<br /><br /> Honestly... It really just smells like dill and tastes like hampster bedding.
BlackForestCO (624), Fort Collins and Black Forest, Colorado, USA
Oct 21, 2008 According to my notes, the actual name of this beer is ’Retard Direction Beer.’ So thanks to mmtmatrix for sharing a bottle. Poured a clear peach-orange color with a thin white head that diminished to a thin layer. Aroma of tart fruit (orange, lemon, peach), funky yeast, some barnyard, a hint of cognac, and some oak. Tart, dry entry with some moderate fruit (peach skin, orange, lemon) that leads into a funky yeastiness with some barnyard character, tannins, and some drying oak. Soft carbonation with a great dry bite.
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