Chapeau Gueuze

Brewed by Brouwerij De Troch
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Ternat-Wambeek, Belgium

Hazy amber, honey color with white head. Sour lemony aroma with leather character. The flavor is less sour and sweet than the Chapeau Faro. Moderate sweet honey, molasses, caramel flavors initially. Citrus, pineapple tartness at the medium. Slightly sour finish with rough horse blanket or leather? yeasty character. Light to medium bodied with yeasty texture and soft carbonation. Strange, but still enjoyable.

Hazy yellow, medium white head. Aroma of lemon. Flavor is very sweet, citrus overtones, smooth and grapy. Does not seem to be alive.

12.7 oz. bottle from Empire Liquors, label is notched between 95 & 96 and ‘O’ for October, cork started to rust on the underside of the cap, this marking on the label was the Best By Date or brewed date? Pours a light clear gold with some white bubbles that forms a small ring in the glass, had a decent amount of sediment in the bottle, aroma of aged wood, smells dry with no sweetness on the nose, some funkiness in there to, much sweeter in flavor then what I was expecting but finishes pretty dry on the palate with a small bitterness, some white grape flavor, wood flavor, a touch of grape skins after the finish, not much carbonation in this ale, very little pucker in the mouth, drink starts pretty sweet but ends dry, stays sweet right up to the finish, has a light mouth feel, very easy to drink, I wonder if this is out of style with so much sweetness and not enough pucker on the palate.

Sweeter than a usual gueze. Slightly sour. One dimensional, but not horrible to drink. Colder is better.

38cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, easy to drink sweet gueuze, not complex, balanced, clear, small head, nothing special

A 0.375L bottle at Kaunis Kampela. Thin white head. Nice pale brown colour. Soft lightly sweet taste. Slightly sour taste with some hints of raisins. Like "lemon Ice-tea".

Bottle@Kaunis Kampela, Helsinki. Amber color, low white head. Tangy berry aroma. Sweet, almost cloying taste with some residual sourness, malty finish. Doesn’t really seem like a gueze to me, and it’s not particularly good for a faro, either.

Bottle (EBF2007)
After the wonderful tart framboise and lemon, we were hoping the geuze would be the drying pucker to send shivers down our spine for hours. Unfortunately it was just a slightly phenolic aroma, very watery bodied, not sour at all, and flat dishwater. I think the little bretts were all dead.