St. Louis Gueuze

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

Apple cider taste with a barny and leathery texture. Not as strong a gueuze as it could be, but has enough sour and tartness to make it appealing.

37.5 cl bottle, Fargo, ND. USA via Chicago. Hazy deep golden colour, frothy soap like head that quickly vanishes. Aroma of apple, coriander and yeast. Tastes like a weak cider without too much overt sweetness. Mellow and slightly earthy on the finish.

Slightly more lamic character than the most timid lambics. Some light horse blanket flavours. A quafable gueuze none the less.

Reddish brown, white lasting head. Fresh aroma with some sourness. Moderately sour flavour with oak, vanilla and a touch of hops in the finish.

Geueze? Well I guess this is like a macro-version of many other types of beer - made for the masses. It has some pleasant refreshing qualitites but it certainly doesn’t slap you with the assertive sour notes that I love so much. Malty and bubbly, apple cider aromas and grassiness. Overall it was drinkable but not nearly truly geueze-like for me.

Nice rich golden, good head that stays drifting around the glass. Fruit juice and perfume crossed with urine sourness in the aroma - really weird. Sweet mouthfeel, puckering a good way to describe. Citrus sourness almost with a Riesling grapy acidic sweetness feel about it and some bicarb soda. One schizo beer, neither style dominant

375ml Bottle: Pours a clear, pale orange colour, good sized white head that reduced to a thin layer until it was done. A sour aroma, apple and pear cider, white wine, peppery spice. Lots of fruity apple and pear in the flavour, obviously sour, but with significant sugar content. Unlike any gueuze I’ve had, not that I’m an expert, but reminds me of what would happen if you poured apple juice and pear cider into a gueuze. Average.

Lovely amber colour topped with off white head. Aroma reminds me of flemish sour ale, except without the syrupy berry tones. The sourness of the taste is however balanced by the sweetness of the beer. The sweetness is not to my taste, but needed and I really enjoyed this beer, but I'd never could drink a lot of this stuff. Re-rate: That amber colour looks pretty flat now, much visible carbonation, still not very exciting to look at. Tart and sour aroma, not at all bad. Not as sweet, nor as sour, as I'd remember. Actually balances quite well. It is however a bit thin on the palate, which combined with a dusty flavour drags it down a bit. Now, I'd really like to get my hands on a high rated Geuze!