Thanks to my bro for sharing this. Pours a clear straw gold color with thin bubbly head on it. Aroma is of sour fruit, wood notes, barnyard, and musty straw. Taste is sour fruit, tangy wheat, musty, straw, and wood notes. Good stuff but a tad harsh compared to other geuzues IMHO.

Thanks to TheCheeseMan for this! 2005 Bottle drunk via Lambic Flute. Pours a straw-golden color with a large soapy head that fades rather quickly. Aroma is divine - tart sour funk, hay, and maybe a bit of grape and pear. Taste is sour and tart, with a dry finish. In gueuze, I trust!

Was able to order a bottle of the 2005 vintage by special request from the private, off menu, stock of Brasserie Beck in Washington D.C. Wasn’t cheap but hell, it was my birthday. Corked wine bottle pours a translucent, hazy orange color that looks a bit like grapefruit juice with a cloudy, swirling white head. Aroma was amazing, slight, zesty citrus with grass, hay, tart fruits, pears, earthy, a little malty, meyer lemons, white grapes, with plenty of Brett coming through early and often. Flavor is similar, the wild yeast complexities come through nicely and the marriage of flavors is more reminiscent of a pricey bottle of wine rather than a pint of ale. Flavor has more of the grass and hay, more earth, lemons, grapefruits, spice, white pepper, white grapes, lemon-lime soda and sweet tarts. Soft, a little chalky, with some slightly zesty bitterness lasting in the mouth. Wish I had a case to age in my cellar because it’s clearly progressing well. I’m not a big sour/geuze fan but this was one of a kind.

2007 bottle, with weird crap on it that smells awful. pours a mostly clear golden amber with a thickish off-white head that fades quickly. mmm what a smell. lemon and orange citrus zest, with a sort of earthy/woody/grassy character that reminds me of a forest on a cool fall day. a hint of mustiness, and that sharp sour cantillon funk. a bit more mellow, though, than others i’ve had from cantillon. less fruity and citrusy in the taste, with more of a wheat-like flavor coming out, mixing well with the light malt. a bit of straw and barnyard hang around, and the lemon finds its way in at the end. sharp sour finish, until you get used to it, at which point you notice a light bitterness and a lingering dryness. great mouthfeel - slightly oily, thin enough to be quenching, but never watery. spritzy, as the bottle says, but the carbonation is so little, it doesn’t add much. more mellow than i’m used to from cantillon, or from any gueuze really. it still has that biting acidity, but it’s toned down. great stuff.

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.