Girardin Gueuze White Label

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

Standard colour for the genre and the creamy, well formed head looks good. Nose struggles to give much but the palate mostly delivers with citus and sour fruits. A slightly dirty finish marrs an otherwise reasonable beer. Doesn’t have the intense sourness and bracing acidity (IMHO) of top flight gueze.

There is something very strange about drinking a clear Gueuze! Clear cobber colored body with a white head; Deep and complex aromas, they are of cause Gueuze-like, but in a very strange way: to fat and to warm ripe apple, wet hay and wood; The body has a soft texture with a little sharp carbonation, only very little acidity; It finishes long, a bit dry, but only very little sour, aromas of warm sweet rotten apples, wet rotten oak, generally it is to sweet and not sour enough. Simple and to me not very pleasant nor interesting. Not at all what I expect from the brewer who makes my favorite beer!

Yellow gold color, with a huge white head, with lacing, the nose has a nice tart, acidic note , with barnyard and dusty accents, hint of mustiness, wet oakiness, with a faint cedary and green apples sourness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a mild sharpness character, with some light tart, acidic flavors, with some brettanomyces notes, good green apples sourness, hint of juicy lemony fruitiness, leading towards a real mild lambic dryness finish.

Golden coloured with a thin creamy lacing white head. Complex lambic aroma of cherry, brett, wood, earth, cave, and malic acid. In mouth, an astringent apple, acidic points, ground cherries, with some sweetness. Rich and complex. A wonderful lambic. Bieropholie import.

bottle. golden color. large fluffy head. sweet and sour. bit corny. bit blah.

Bottle. Clear golden in colour with a rather large head. Slight sourness with citric notes. A bit too anonomous though. Very mild and easy forgettable.

The pour reveals a clear golden color with a medium white head that leaves nice lacing on the glass. Excellent aroma of hay, musty cheese and strong, funky wild yeast. The flavor is also excellent and has the same hay, musty cheese and funk, of course, it is acid, it is really well balanced and classy, the flavor finishes sour and lactic. The body is medium with a powdery and oily texture, the carbonation is medium but strong for a gueuze. This is an excellent gueuze, it’s only flaw is that it’s not as good as the black label version.

Verre de dégustation, provenant d’une bouteille verte de 375 ml, dégusté au Festival Bières et Saveurs 2006 (Chambly, QC). Arôme: Odeur de pomme et de foin avec une touche de vinaigre. Apparence: La couleur est dorée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux avec une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de citron et d’épices. Courte durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Amertume de pomme en arrière goût. (Rating #626)