Cantillon Lou Pepe Gueuze

This is only my third or fourth geuze, but I think it is the best so far. Striking aroma of musty sour fruit. Sweet straw-like foundation with crazy yeasty fruit and a funky barnyard-like quality that combines the sensation of dried straw/hay with an earthy mustiness. Sour, with high acidity giving it a tartness and dryness to the finish. Interesting and very good.

75cl, exclusive brew Anno 2005, from Geers Oostakker, complex brew, balanced, hazy, small head, good sour brew, but too expensive

Thanks to xmarcnolanx for sharing this beautiful gueuze. Pours orange / amber with an off-white rocky head. The aroma is powdery and floral with smooth malt, some tartness, dry lemon zest and a cleanness and fresh aspect that isn’t generally associated with the style. Medium crisp clean powdery feel with light gentle carbonation. The flavor starts quite tart with lemon zest, powder, wild yeastiness, barnyard funk, citric acid and only the slightest hint of lacticness. The finish continues the tartness and is quite complex. An excellent gueuze that I look forward to revisited with a few years on it.

(bottle, 2000 vintage) Pours clear gold with a white head. The aroma is very earthy, musty, with some funky cheese, oak, and some light smoke. The flavor is quite salty and briny for a gueuze, with some mineral flavors, which switched to an oak and yeast finish. Not bad, but this really lacked that subtle sweet fruit undertone which better gueuzes possess.

Brewed ’04. Light hazy yellow, small white head. Mixed mushroom salad nose, some tartness and lactic acid. Quite mellow. Tart and acidic, grapefruit seedy flavor, same mushrooms and sour milk. Just not all that interesting, mellow and lactic.