Chapeau Gueuze

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

A hazy brown beer with no head. The aroma is only slight compared to other gueuzes but has the distinct sharp note of the wild fermentation. The aroma is quite sweet with notes of the sharpness and dryness of a gueuze. An OK beer, but I would rather have a sharper and drier gueuze. I think this is a good gueuze to introduce people to the concept of gueuze.

(Bottle 25 cl) De Troch is best known for it’s range of overly sweet fruit beers, but they also do make beers that come closer to the real thing - without hitting bulls eye though. Dark amber, almost no head. Vinegary nose, and the tartness really dominates all the way through. But it’s a harsh tartness very far from the sophisticated, earthty notes that characterizes the best classical gueuzes. Solid dose of candi sugars cannot save this, and it ends quite unbalanced. 230599

25 cL bottle. Pours slight hazy orange with little off-white head. Aroma is malt heavy with a slight acidity. Flavour is sweet malty, cane sugarish. Finish holds a very subdued caramel sweetness and a mild malt note. No acidity at all. Ends rather sweet and malty. Unusual sweet for a lambic.

Bottle. 375cl Vintage 199?. Clear light to medium amber - orange color with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, barnyard - horse blanket, wood, dust, some hops and oak. Flavor is moderate acidic snd light bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat. (070308)

I ordered a De Troch Geuze and got this :( Bottle, 5.5%. Moldy, sour aroma. Hazy brown colour. OK white head. Sweet, moldy flavour with a hint of sourness. Way too sweet, making it a faro IMO.

Bottled (from lahoublonniere.be). Deep amber colour, no head. Aroma is sour wood, with some slight sweetish fruityness also. Flavour is birch sap, raisins, resin and some syrup. Mild sourness lurking, but overall a very sweet thing. Blech.

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

Amber color. Aroma of malt, Porto wine, sweet. Very sweet taste, with peculiar wine notes (common Porto wine). It’s not a Gueuze, I should not like it, but I do!