St. Louis Gueuze

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Ingelmunster, Belgium

(Bottle) Pours a lightly golden body with a small white head. Aroma of earthiness and tart. Flavor is tart (chardonnay grapes, apple) and sugary.

Best before 11/2004, 250mL capped bottle from Jacob Lovenlund, consumed on 8/5/06. So almost 3 years old, I think? That or 4 years old, I can’t imagine the brewery recommends keeping this pasteurised, filtered crap much longer than 1 year.
The appearance says Belgian ambree, as it’s quite ruddy-orange and too dark for a true gueuze (and this is obviously no specialty gueuze). Off-white head is large, foamy/fizzy and quickly recedes to partial cover and then ring, leaving little-to-no lacing behind. Fizzy, large bubbles rise languidly to the top, but can not bolster the head for long.
Heavily, heavily sugary in the nose. It pretty much smells like priming sugar, like corn sugar/syrup, was used to give this beer aroma. DMS is certainly rampant. Behind the vegetal nightmare, lies a sugary, caramel-like "maltiness". Wheat is lightly dry, nutty. No alcohol in the nose. No lambic either.
Flavor - sigh....it’s like the rest of its brothers; chapeau, mort subite, lindemans, belle-vue, sadly lacking of any lambic notes, sugary, corny, vegetal, metallic, watery, cloying. Just a horrid mess. The good news is that I’m almost through the gauntlet of these fake gueuzes.

Draught at Sankt Nikolai Pub. Not that interesting, i expected a geuze, but got a cider ??!! Golden, white head. Aroma: Grape, solphur. Taste: Green apples, fresh, grape. But too fresh and pleasant....I bet I could sell it as a Cider to Douglas !!! Do you know Douglas, well you are gonna !?!? Well I am not a cider-boy.

33cl bottle, purchased at some bar in Brussels
While walking around the center touristy part of Brussels, we decided to get a drink at an unknown bar, which was dressed in common touristy decorations and served the common touristy beers like Jupiler, Maes and Duvel. We really just needed a place to pee, so decided to get a beer as well. I finally decided to try a commercial gueze. It was not very good at all. It had a perfectly clear dark amber appearance. The nose had some moldy yeast scents, very lightly prickly sour on the nostrils. Flavor was sickly sweet spoiled apples and tinny metal flavors. This truly is terrible stuff.

Dark amber coloured with an average and diminishing white head. Sweet-sour aroma, little fruity. Medium body, sweet taste. Finish is light sour but the sweetness is somethimes to much. Not the best one I had

Bottle. Slightly sour yet some kind of (honey) sweetness. Some smell of yeast.

(bottle) Amber coloured with a small and slightly beige frothy head. Dusty sweet and sour citrus aroma. Sugary sweet initial taste with notes of apples and oranges. Light bodied, crispy mouthfeel; slightly tart and woody sweetbitter finish. Mediocre Gueuze.

This Lambic poured a slightly cloudy light yellow with a rocky head. Scents include apples and fruit with a glue background. Almost a slight burning sensation in the nose. ??? First sip is shockingly fruity and sparkling with lots of carbonation. Lots of glue too. The finish is winey with a small amount of ripe fruit flavours. The palate is more like regular ale with a splash of cider. The Glue has got to go!