Schoune Ma Ptite Gueuze

Bottle shared by Derek. Orangey colour with some harvesting of a bubby white partial cover. The aroma is geuzy and interesting, not quite sour nor malty. A little lace. The taste is sour, but there is balance with the malt. Well cellared and so the Day of Balance by Derek?

bouteille brune de 341ml. produit surprenant couleur de sauce au prune VH, pas de mousse, odeur cararteristique des lambics, goût sûre mais agréable, fin de bouche passeblement acide qui la rend moins agréable, somme toute un produit intéressant, moins bonne que la spontanée 2005.

12 oz bottle, via goldorak. Pours a slightly hazy dark amber body under a thin fizzy beige head that retained as a sickly looking film. Almost no visible carbonation. The aroma is quite odd. Like a vegetal and lightly vinegary American Wheat with some vanilla, toasted malt, orange citrus, and simple sugar. No funk at all. Oi! Comes across as more of an unintentionally infected Dunkle Weiss more than a Gueuze. A light tartness and vinegar note throughout, but none of the cellar or barnyard funk that ought to accompany it. A refined sugar flavor appears mid swallow then fades in the rotting vegetable laced finish with an odd caramel sweetness. Mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with lots of sticky risidual sugars and moderate fizzy carbonation. A little acetic vinegar on the finish. No funk, no oak, no brett, therefor no Gueuze. I feel bad for those who may not know what they’re getting when the purchase this, or those who might have this as their first experience with Gueuze. At least I knew what I was getting.

On Tap at the Mondiale ’07 Well this is crap. Smells and tastes like a sour belgian blonde ale. There are not grassy musty notes to speak of. Its kinda sweet, and cloying. This brewery is known for infected beer, and well i think this was. just bad.

Cloudy orange-golden body with a short lived white head. No funk on the nose. The aroma is actually that of a can of Del-Monte pears along with some peaches and bananas. The aroma is not impressive but then it gets worse, a lot worse. Mouthfeel is very dusty, borderline sandy. Doughy yeast. Lots of minerals. Unpleasant acidic-fruity taste of a past due-date fruit juice. Unfortunately flavourful. Breakfast juice companies can now legally replace their “best before…” by “Schoune Ma Ptite Gueuze after…”.