Liefmans Goudenband

Brewed by Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Sour Ale
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Re-rate 8/24/09: Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks Shacher.! Nice. 6/4/7/3/13=3.3

Re-rate 5/6/09: Sample from a bottle brought by some guy from Moortgat to Ma’abarot beer festival. Clear brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of oak, sugar and some berries notes. Sweetish flavor with some sourness, fruits, sugar, some wood and very light lactic notes. Medium-bodied. OK. 7/3/6/3/13=3.2

Ɠ/6/08) Bottle at Kaffee de Hopduvel in Ghent. Dark reddish-brown with a medium beige head. Aroma of malt, a bit of brown sugar and notes of wood. Very sweet flavor (maybe even a tad artificial) with a bit of fruits and faint notes of oak. Medium-bodied. Not so bad but way too sweet. I should’ve tried an older bottle at Kulminator. 6/4/6/3/13=3.2

High marks across the board except for flavor and overall - but not due to any real failing of the beer. It’s just not my cup of tea. Too sweet/fruity for my taste. Beautiful color, a great pour. Lots of sediment.

2006 bottle, pours deep amber with fair amount of yeast sediment, aroma is fruity and sour, much like the taste. Light sourness, not overwhelming, good complement to maltiness.

Extremelly vinous character, almost vinegar like flaovr. Poured a nice brown with a fizzy light head. Aroma was infinately complex with raisins, cherry, wood , resin. Flavor was intense with a strong fruit tartness to it. Has a distince "celler" like character ti it. A very pleasant offering.

Brown with a dense head. Acidity and sour aroma with notes of wood, yeast and cherry. Spicy, yet acidity flavour with some notes of cherry and raspberries. It’s quite complex and a very fine experience.

2006 bottle. deep brown pour with a thin beige head. sourness and a tiny acidic note. thickness is quite thicker than i was expecting. the taste is ok but not as sour as i was expecting. maybe i need a fresher bottle.

2005 bottle. Ruby red pour with a medium head and lots of yeast particles. Oaky, vinous aroma that mixes red wine with cherries and yeast. Flavor has a nice cherry/tart/vinous thing going on that starts strong but peters out a bit. Nice mouthfeel, but not powerful or sour enough to satisfy a tough sour craving. Still very nice and quite tasty.

Flaske. Tydelig sur lugt, men den slår ikke så kraftigt igennem i smagen. Hvilket er med til at gøre øllen frisk og dække over de 8%. Meget drikbar og farlig grundet procenterne, men en masse bundfald gør den sidste del af øllen mindre nydelsesfuld.