3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze

2003: Pour is golden straw with big bubbled fast fading off white head...smell is sour, dirt, apples, vinegar, and for sure horseblanket funk...taste is sour and musty with hints of dirt, cobweb, slight bitterness, and apples...good, but I think maybe a touch over-rated...

2000 is the beauty, great geuze..creamy, smooth. 2003Malt and vinegar. Very smooth. Enormous head. Creamy in mouth. Great for its style, which I am trying the highest rated for the experience. Vinegar in aroma. Tough to finish a bottle,

Aroma: sour, mint, yeast, funk, and farmhouse
Appearance: murky yellow-brown, small head, lacing
Flavor: sour, funk, yeast, and mint
Palate: smooth with tart bite

Bottle from Kevin. Yeeeeehaaaw. Pours crispy. Flavor like Sprite. Nice, crisp and to the point. Lemon-sour and mouth puckering.

Bottle from Beers of Europe - Identified as ’Oud Beersel Oude Gueuze’ on their website, but the photo was of this. Yay! Hazy orange with no head. Glorious balanced aroma with lemon, wood, brett, barnyard, green apple. Lemon-sour in the mouth with glorious puckering finish. Classy stuff.

Bottle, St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Hazy orange colour. Sour, lemon, really lovely flavour, really intense and superb. Didn’t like lambics and gueuzes to start with but hey, your palate gets educated after a while

375ml bottle served in (I know it’s wrong, but we had nothing more suiting at home) white whine glass. Cloudy yellowy orange. Yellowy white head. Smells burnt, danish cheese, sour, malt, wheat, acrid, sulphuric, citric acid. Taste is sour, burnt, cork and perhaps lactic(?). Sour, bubbly, a little bit slimy,very sour aftertaste, leaves a sulphuric or limestone character.

Hazy golden colour with a small white head. Aroma is sour. The taste is acidic. A very good gueuze. (Corked Bottle 37.5cl and 75cl 6 alcohol% in my version)