Dekoninck Gueuze

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Lembeek, Belgium

375 ml bottle, via jbrus. Pours a slightly hazy orange gold under a 1cm fizzy white head with good retention due to the moderate active fizzy carbonation. The nose is nicely funky with lots of dusty cellar and barnyard notes, light acidity, and some citrus rinds. No cheesy or yogurty notes. Dry biting flavor with lots of acidity, seems a little young, harsh, and muddled. Citrus rinds, some noticable brett presence. A little light notes of yogurt and light oak on the late finish. Mouthfeel is on for a real Gueuze, fairly light bodied with a fizzy spritzy carbonation and a dry funky lingering finish. Overall, this was a perfectly passable Oude Gueuze, no major flaws or problems, just a little lacking in depth and complexity. It’s up there with the likes of Hanssens or Boon.

Golden amber with a white head.Aroma is sour with berries and fruit and a slight sweetness escaping the glass. Sweet and light flavour with fruit and a little bitterness. Not much acid left in flavour. Would have been nice with more sourness in the flavour.

orange golden body with a big white lasting head; Not to big and not to complex nose of hay and ripe apple; Lightly fruity sour body, slightly bitter, slightly sweet, a bit thin not overly interesting body; Long but a bit thin finish, a little sweet and only slightly sour, hay and apple aromas. Nice fresh but a bit to thin and not complex enough gueuze.

Bottle@Home. Tart, oak and funky aroma. Hazy, yellow color, small white head, fair lace. Light sweet, pretty bitter for a lambic, soft sourness, oak. Bit thin. Not bad at all, easy drinkable, but aroma is more interesting than the flavors.

Roskilde Festival Tasting. Pours a light amber with a white head. Mild sourness. Some fruityness. Bitter towards the end. Not too interesting gueuze.

Bottle. Hazy amber coloured with a white head. Aroma of unriped berries and berries with acidic notes. Acidic flavour of berries and wood.

Bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear dark golden appearance, low creamy white head. Pleasant aroma of lemon-peels, grapefruit, apples and barnyard. Flavourvise it’s not as acidic as the best examples of the style but it’s still quaffable. Lemon-peels, green apples, hay and grapefruit on a solid malt base. Lemony aftertaste with strong notes of green apples.

[Bottled at Akkurat, Stockholm] Clear golden, creamy head. Barnyardy citric nose. The malt sweetness is edged out by refreshing acidity. Dense mouthfeel, plenty of lemon juice. Pretty intense, but not very complex.