Chapeau Gueuze

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

Light brown in colour, It was sweet far far too sweet to be easyily drinkable.

Hazy amber colour with a small off white head. Yeasty acidic aroma with notes of cheese. Malty, fruity flavor with dusty notes and a yeasty light dry finish.

Bottle. Clear amber coloured with a white ehad. Light acidic aroma of yeast, cheese and fruits. Sweet flavour of yeast, cheese and fruits.

Marketed and priced just like real gueze but in reality doesn’t come close. Nose and palate is dominated with fermenting grape and apple juice aromas, the latter character to a fault. A good example of sweetened gueze that just doesn’t work. This isn’t beer - its moscato! (e4.20 @ Kaffe Hop Duvel)

Bottled. Oh dear. This is so so wrong. Amber coloured with almost no head. Extreme sweetness and slightly fruity.

bottle. dark amber color. no head. taste like extreamly sweet fruit concentrate. just nasty.

Bottle. No head at all. Color is brown and it is a bit hazy. Sour sweet taste. Not very lasting taste.

Same vintage as Styles’ bottle (Best before Oct/Nov ’95 or ’96) purchased from Embassy Liquors. Shared with OldGrowth on 2/17/2006.
Popping the wetted cork reveals vegetal and corn syrup like flavors, very powdery and quite well summed up by the "baby diaper" moniker. Corn cobs, wet wool, musty corks and a high amount of acetic acid. Any lambic qualities that this may have possessed have been completely subsumed by the thick, caramel/candi sugar. A slight sourness on the end, not a lactic, but a sharp, dry sourness reminiscent of spoiled veggies soaking in rusty water. Faint in the aroma at least.
Not so in the flavor. The beginning I can handle, that being thick, syrupy, sugary, plant-like notes, mixed with vanillin and musty, dry cork flavor. However, this sharpness/rusty sourness, whatever you want to call it, ruthlessly invades the palate providing strong notes of iron, dirty, cold steel and rotten veggies. Not palateable, and in fact, I couldn’t even swallow a single mouthfeel, not trusting the integrity of the ingredients. Mix of wateriness to smooth syrupy sugariness for a texture, with some fair carbonation still perceptible. The beer is much too dark for a gueuze, something like Lancaster Old Sourpuss (though not quite so dark), with an immediately diminishing ring of bubbles.
I can understand the heavy sweetness of this pseudo lambic, but where are the veggies and hugely mineralic/metallic notes coming from?? Glad I tried it, in that it makes me appreciate the true lambic producers that much more (though de troch did a decent job with the chapeau cuvee, oddly enough).
Poor man’s faro is right. This wouldnt even score too much higher in that style.