Mort Subite Gueuze Lambic

Brewed by Mort Subite (Alken-Maes / Scottish & Newcastle)
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Kobbegem, Belgium

Bottle. Pours a clear golden beer with a large offwhite head. The aroma is acidity, sweetness and wood. The flavor is sweetness and wood. The palate is fresh sweetness and the beer has a low carbonation. Overall a good and complex beer.

Thanks doug! Horse blanket, I can almost see the flys. Sharp citrus. Clear copper. Great lacing. Sweet side of gueuze, but almost like saccharine.

Pours very nicely into a Duvel chalice, with massive head, golden colour, plenty of bubbling. I jammed my nose into the head (literally, now it’s all over my nose) and couldn’t smell much - some kind of grain, some fermented sour mash, maybe a little alcohol. The taste is like a fermented juice, very sweet, kind of watery, lots of tastes here that I haven’t had in any other kind of beer. This is my first Gueuze Lambic by the way, which probably explains a lot. Not sure about this one, it’s unique and rather tasty, probably an acquired preference if you know what I mean, but I didn’t mind it. Maybe the style’s just not for me.

On tap at Mort Subite in Brussels. Nice musty and slightly vinegary aroma with some citrus. Off white head and golden color. Slight saltiness, creamy and malty, cake like flavors with some flour, slight sweetness and some lemon lime. Short sour duration. Tasted good in this spot.

375ml Bottle shared with Grand Genie. Paid $2,00 at the corner store Peluso in Montreal. The bottle was 24 years old ***85-06***. Best before 1995-06. Clear golden appearance with no head. Aroma: crab apples, sour, rubarb, apple juice, candy sugar, and smells like the Unibroue Quelques chose 2002. Flavor: light sour taste, apples and cherries. Palate: light body, oily with an apple cherry chalky finish.

(bottle from OSLO, thanks Al!) Pours gold with a small off-white head. Aroma of pickled onions mixed with brown sugar, acetone, cheese, and apple skins. The taste is really sweet with a lot of brown sugar and apple skin that dries out a bit on the finish. Little bit of lemon zest as well, but this tastes more like a faro than a gueuze.

Bottle. Pours amber coloured with a small lacing egg white head. Mild and fruity aroma with notes of cherries, apples and sugar. Weak and semi sweet flavour with notes of berries and sugar. Very easy drinkable - but it ain’t the real thing baby..

375ml bottle from De Bierkoning. Pours a clear, brassy copper color. A thick, foamy, off-white head is well retained, leaving patchy, splotchy lacing on the glass. The aroma shows little sourness, mostly sweet and fruity, with the odd twang of spoiled, fermenting figs and peaches. It is very faro-like in its strange sweetness. Flavors show more of the same, lightly tart in that overly-ripe fruit sort of way, old peaches being the only distinguishable component. The palate is medium bodied, most of that coming from the sugar. This gueuze is not my cup of tea. Way too sweet.