You would never hit 9/9. I sincerely doubt you would have got even 4/9 correct. It sounds really easy, until you actually try to do it.
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Yeah, I know it’s tough. I love doing blind tastings and "quizzes" like this, and do them as often as I can.
The IPA tasting was a "pop quiz" tasting of 9 different IPA’s that we had on draft at Blue Palms. I picked out a couple of them, I think. It’s damn difficult, for sure. I just thought the defining characteristics of some of these geuzes would be a little more noticeable, particularly because I know these beers better than I know many of the IPA’s I tried (at least 2 of which I had never really had before that day).
I rephrased my earlier post because I misspoke when I said, "obvious." I know this stuff is really difficult. But I would have thought that a few of the geuzes are just quite a bit different than the others in that line-up. I’d love to try it out for myself.
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I think he is basically saying that you don’t know until you have tried to do it blind.
Sounds like the NY folks were more than a little surprised that they couldn’t at least pick out a couple of them.
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Do it!
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Do it! Do the same 9 we did.
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I thought so too, but it turned out not to be the case.
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Very interesting.
The Lindemans on top sure is surprising. Many people have told me that it gets pretty good with some age on it. I’m aging some right now. I think I will try to convince the Montreal crew to do a similar tasting.
Not knowing that one was the 50N4E played against it and I’m not surprised to see it at the bottom. I think this is a great beer but a great smooth beer. Almost like an unblended. It’s just a different beast and if you are looking for that "true" gueuze taste then the 50N4E will fall short. That’s like doing an IIPA tasting and bringing a great Pale Ale. It will probably finish last because it doesn’t match the intensity of the others. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t rate my beloved Dale’s Pale Ale very high in an IIPA blind tasting.
Besides the Lindemans, the other major surprise is the Boon MP and Girardin that I would have expected to switch place in your ranking.
Can you expand on the overall comments that were made as to why people liked or didn’t like some beer? Not sour/acidic enough? too sour/acidic? Too dry, not dry enough? etc...
Also, let’s not forget that lambics are highly variable. I’ve had some Cantillon Gueuze that were not very sour (usually a very sour one) and I was disappointed by a case of Girardin Black Label that I bought about two years ago (who knows, might be the vintage that you used).
Thanks for the great tasting post!
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I’ll do it and if i dont get you 8/9 then i’ll send you a 500ml hand bottled lambic you havnt had
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I shall do, i have all of them in the pub or in my cellar and i’ll do them with mes one night blind and see how it goes
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Oh, brother, you’re gonna regret that bet. It needs to be completely blind. We had puzzl’s wife and maxxdaddy’s girlfriend doing all of the bartending duties in a separate room (a lovely job they did, too I might add) so nobody tasting the beer had a clue what was coming up next.
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