North By Northwest Guldenbiere (2006)

<b><i>2006 Vintage</i></b>

<b>7/28/2007</b>: North by Northwest Guldenbiere 2006 smells yeasty with some additional aromas of wheat and fruit. This beer has a cloudy yellow/golden color with a white head and nice lacing. The flavor is lambic-like with some fruitiness and a balanced level of bitterness. The body is light and heavily carbonated, but the palate is smooth and somewhat mellow. It isn’t nearly as fizzy as the 2005 Vintage was. Overall this beer is pretty good, but unfortunately it isn’t anything too terribly exciting or special.

<i>Sample from 750 mL bottle (7.5% ABV) shared by moejuck at the "Columbus Tasting: Ate, now with gramatical errors" event. Thanks! Rating #19 for this beer...</i>

Body-very clear and light with a thick foamy head. Nose-cottony, alcohol, light white spices. Taste-honey, cantaloupe, medium to high sweetness, very soft, lotion, lightly sticky, cloying, way too much honey flavors. Too sweet as it warms.

Yellow straw like color with a lacy decent head. Thick body. Honey hits you at first in the taste and smell. Very sweet. Ginger and some fruit in the taste as well.

(750ml bottle, 2006 vintage) Pours a clear yellow body with a medium white head. Aroma of ginger, coriander, mustiness, and biscuit. Flavor of sweet malts, peach, pear, honey, and floral hops.

750 ml bottle, fruity blueberry nose, very carbonated, heavy ginger, honey flavors

750 ml bottle into Pizza Port pint glass; obtained from fly, my 2007 Secret Santa (thanks to him for this seemingly very rare beer). Yeasty smells all over the place; lemony and skunky at first, it reminds me of a pilsener more than a Belgian beer. When you stick your nose in the glass you get the more characteristic bready and horseblanket aromas, with an undercurrent of woodland berries. Medium bodied in the mouth and very soft, the very gentle carbonation goes well with lactic sweetness in the finish. Lightly fruity middle with very identifiable notes of juicy pear. Reminds me a little bit of a green-tea mochi ball in the flavor both in the middle and late in the finish. A refreshing beer that does what it does well.

I finally make it on the Top 50 Master Raters List! 25.4 oz bottle. Kept foaming over even after two glasses were poured out. Cloudy straw with a coating white head. Leaves speckles of lace. Nose is funky lemon custard and yeast. Tastes similar; lightly tart milky citrus, some floral and mild grapefruit pith.

25 oz bottle, shared by mj. Pours a hazy straw yellow with a small fizzy white head that fell to a thin covering and a small bubbly ring. Nose is quite funky and floral with a good dose of yeast and a touch of honey. The flavor is pretty tame compared to the aroma, some perfume like notes and light spices with a really nice yeast character. Some sweetness and hay notes on the finish. Mouthfeel is light -medium bodied with moderate fine fizzy carbonation. A pretty nice beer, this really seemed to have some type of spicing going on even though it said it didn’t. I guess it’s all yeast derived. I’d like to try the other version of this now.