Mort Subite Gueuze Lambic

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

Unexpected find in a small grocery store near the Sorbonne in Paris. Also surprisingly weak tasting. Very little sour, more like a cider. Lots of apple and sweet, like simple syrup. Refreshing I suppose but really simple and weak for a style I usually adore.

Color gold-amber. Sweetish aroma of fruit. medium body with sour snd acid final.

Bottle. Golden hazy beer with a champagne like carbonation. Quite dry beer with cider like flavour. Not very complex, quite astringent, less alcoolic.

Clear copper pour with a fluffy white head. Aroma is very mild at first, but becomes a little more pronounced as the beer breathes. Apple, citrus, sweet/sour, wood. The flavor is interesting, and is almost excellent, but not quite. Has qualities of a flemish red, but also of something like cantillon gueuze. This is in theory a great combination, with a nice balance between sweet and sour, but everything comes across as pretty understated, and in the finish strangely chalky. The mouthfeel is also too soft and too watery. Still, a pretty good beer.

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.

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.