 Ernest (4227), Boulder, Colorado, USA
Jan 5, 2003 Updated: Jan 4, 2005
Head is initially average sized, fizzy, white, mostly diminishing. Body
is hazy light amber, bottle conditioned. Aroma is heavily yeasty (horseblanket, barnyard, leather, cobwebs, cheese), lightly hoppy
(grass, lemon), with notes of white grapes, cask wood, sour apple, olives, and all that is wild and funky. Flavor is moderately sweet, heavily acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, heavily
acidic, lightly bitter. Medium body, velvety texture, lively to fizzy carbonation,
lightly astringent. Possibly the wildest gueuze still made today...loads and loads of horse/stable/cobwebs/etc. aroma, just overflowing with rough-and-tumble rustic yeasty charm. Doesn’t have the elegance and finesse of Girardin Black, but good grief what it makes up for in sheer balls-to-the-wall arrogance! And ends up being virtually equivalent in rating for its over-the-top uniqueness. This has always been the most distinctive and unusual gueuze for me, and this re-rate proves no different. Monumental if you can handle a walk on the *really* WILD side. Draw-dropping balance in the mouth that makes it nearly impossible to stop drinking. I really need to pump up my cellar with this stuff, as it never disappoints.
NachlamSie (1353), Tennessee, USA
Aug 27, 2008 Bottle. Pours a hazy weird off-yellow with a pillowing white head. I can smell this stuff as soon as I pop the cork. Not for the faint of heart, this beer is seriously sour. Putting my nose to the snifter is more intense than putting my nose directly to a jug of vinegar. Intensity aside, this has a fantastic array of wild, funky aromas: cheese, hay, goats, lemon, serious malt vinegar. The spritzy mouthfeel does well to compliment the tartness of the flavor. It’s no surprise when the puckering onslaught hits my palate. It moves through some layers, starting with the sharp vinegar character and moving towards a wild, tart funk. This never becomes sweet or forgiving. I don’t get much bottom end in this one. Props for its unabashed use of bacterial quality. This is one of the most aggressive of all soured beer I’ve encountered.
bboeckl (115), Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
Aug 24, 2008 Exceptional Gueze. Golden, with a white head. Excellent lacing. Taste was SOUR, tart, fuity, and astringent. Dry aftertaste. Strong sour lemon taste, but this is well balanced by maltiness. Unbelievable complexity. I highly recommend this gueze. Fits style guidelines to a tee.
AmEricanbrew (924), Swamp Shreveport, Left Coast, Louisiana, USA
Aug 22, 2008 Clear dark gold with a fizzy white head. Good aroma is toasted wood with barnyard funk and tart wheat. Medium body and lightly carbonated. Pucker factor is medium to high from front to back. Good yeasty funk flavors with tart wheat, bready malts, with some tart lemon and dry wood. Another most worthy gueuze here.
djtimeless (41), Florida, USA
Aug 19, 2008 Pours out hazy gold. Taste is tart and crisp with a little funk. Nice balance. Not to sour. Great gueuze for the $.
BoBoChamp (646), Gent, Belgium
Jul 28, 2008 38cl, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex, balanced, hazy, good head, good sour geuze
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