St. Louis Gueuze

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

bottle. pours golden, white head. Easy appraoch in the gueuze style beers, highly drinkable, yet simple. Light grassy palate with faint touch of sourness some wood like mouthfeel and hints of fruits.

Bottle at Bazar, A’dam. Very sweet, tart cider taste. Very fruity, old apples perhaps? A bit of a dissapointment. But I’m not a Geuze guy.

Bottle at Bjergtrolden. Orange with a white head, really nice lacings. Aroma moderate malty (fruity, cask). Flavor moderate acidic (like champagne). Light body, watery. Overall impression like a light champagne.

Not particularly ’gueze-ish’, but very refreshing. Sharp and crisp, plenty of candy. Quite sugary, which cuts the sourness. Still remains quite sour, a pleasant little tartness. Has a bit of earthiness to it, kind of like drinking from a natural spring. Palate is light, not a lot to it. Not an archetypical gueuze at all, but still like this one.

Bottle at Den Engel, Antwerp. Amber, no head, slightly sour aroma. Friendly Gueuze - not challenging at all. Gentle sourness, but also quite a big swig of sweetness. Easy to drink, not amazingly flavoursome, but OK.

Bottle brought back from Belgium. Rather sweet gueuze. But nowhere near as sweet as Lindemans, for instance, and without Lindeman’s raw, unrefined staleness. Reasonably bland and rather safe with only passing sourness and barely any dryness. I can’t help thinking that without the sourness & bone dry characteristics lambics just taste sickly and stale. It’s gueuze, but only in name.

On tap at Track 84 - Warwick, RI. Aroma throws a light cheese rind, musty cellar floor, and a bit of horsiness. Pours a coppery-brown-tinted golden, with minimal head. Flavor is immediately curt, thinning fast, and the slides towards light lemon juice acidity. Lacking full acid body, this beer plays thin. The characters are solid, but they feel washed out. Nice funkiness in the wild basement, orchards, and animal sense perseveres into the finish.

250ml bottle, honey gold color, with a frothy white head, leaving laces, sweet soft wild yeasty nose, with a wet oakiness note, faint fruity mustiness, subtle leafiness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a mild sweet sharpness character, with gentle acidity, citrus wineyness, hint of greens apples tartness, leading towards a fruity tart and sweet dryness finish.