St. Louis Gueuze

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

Bottle. Sweet-sour musty hay/barnyard malt aroma. Clear amber with large white head. Sweet musty hay flavor. Fairly weak. Pretty average for a sweetened (nontraditional) gueuze.

Brought home from Belgium and aged for an additional year. Pretty weak for a lambic. Some barnyard and very light sourness, much more like a faro than a gueuze. Amber color and loads of sediment in large brown chunks. Some sugar and yeast.

My first gueuze. Amber coloured with some white lacing. Some acidity in aroma with hints of hye and lemon. Taste is too sweet for my liking. Lime, sour candy and some hye is noticed. Too much carbonation. This one was really boring.

Pours a slightly cloudy caramel color with a thin white head. The aroma is slightly sour and fruity. The flavor has the same mild sourness and fruits, nothing too wild or authentic in there. The body is light with a dusty texture and soft carbonation.

Aroma of vinegar, citrus and yeast. Hazy, amber-yellow xoloured with a lasting white head. Taste is tart, a litlle yeasty, some citrus and a little hopbitterness. Decent brew.

Almost clear dark blonde body topped by a white ring of foam. Initial flavour of rotten apple and corn syrup paves the way to an unpleasant dry and sandy finish. What the hell is that sugary sweetness doing in a gueuze. Mouth drying tartness that is so pleasant in real gueuzes is replaced here by a plastic flavour. I did a quick “advanced search” in ratebeer to see where the St-Louis Gueuze ranks in the Lambic-Gueuze category. Seeing it pretty much at the bottom was about as surprising as learning that the dude with the red uniform on a Star Trek away mission is gonna get killed.

Aroma of mixed fruit, grapes and hops, dark amber, small rocky white head. Taste is musty fruit, and ginger ale? Very light bodied, none of the usual characteristics like sour, tart, acidic, dry ... nothing! Dull.

Bouteille de 250 ml obtenue via les Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Odeur d’ananas, de pommes vertes et de fleurs. Apparence: La couleur est dorée avec une moyenne densité de bulle. Absence de col mais présence d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes, d’épices et une touche de caramel. La durée de l’arrière goût est moyenne. Palette: Le corps est moyen et la texture crémeuse. L’effervescence en bouche est faible. Présence d’agrumes en arrière goût. (Rating #368)