 Nate (2291), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Feb 6, 2005
1999 vintage. Wonderful tart peppery barnyard aroma, acidic and astringent. Nice wheaty, yeasty smell. Medium orange amber, cloudy, with off-white foamy lacing head. Medium watery body, high carbonation, with carbonic burn. Starts wheaty and tart, great tart acidity, barnyard . Bitterness remains throughout with clean bitter acidic finish. Slight chalky after. Very nice gueuze.
glennmastrange (466), hobe sound, Florida, USA
Nov 29, 2008 Bottle. Moderate aromas all around. Straw for the malt, herbs for the hops, cobwebs and cellar for the yeast, with a heavy background note of wood and a powerful solvent smell. Head is large, frothy, white with good lacing and is fully lasting. Color is hazy, but sparkling amber/tan. Flavor starts heavily acidic and sour then finishes the same way with loads of bitterness. Palate is medium, watery with a bit of slickness and has an extremely fizzy carbonation. It finishes heavily astringent. Like the Flemish Sours, how the hell does one drink this and say they enjoyed the experience? I’m done being daring with my tasting of the unknown.
cgreb (84), Marburg, Germany
Nov 27, 2008 bottle - hazy orange beer with almost no foam. Very sour aroma. Reminds on vine. The same for the flavour. Tastes very sour, like a brut cider. A little bit of "cellar" flavour. Very special beer but not my style.
Wasatch (187), Layton, Utah, USA
Nov 17, 2008 750ml
Gold Tin
Caged/Corked
Bottled: 2 Feb 07
Poured into my Gouden Carolus chalice a very nice hazy golden yellow color, very nice carbonation, nice one-finger fizzy white head, with some nice sticky lacing left behind. The nose is malty, yeasty, funky, very slight licorice, spicy. The taste is malty, yeasty/funky, with some sourness, some licorice notes, and spice. Medium body, the finish is dry. Very drinkable, this is a tasty brew, thanks Joe.
azlondon (528), Greater London, England
Nov 2, 2008 Appearance: Dark orange. Lots of white head. Bottled 2008.
Aroma: Sour, citrus fruit.
Taste: Very sour. Quenching. Hint of fruit?
Info: 375ml bottle, 2/11-2008, 187/300
mgermani (649), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Oct 27, 2008 Pours a slightly hazy pale golden-brown with no head to speak of. Aroma of sweet pineapple, vinigar, cider, quite pungent. First time I tried this was after a bunch of artificially-sweeneted lambics and my tastebuds were not happy. Re-corked it, left it in the fridge for nearly a month, and now I’m liking it a bit more. Very dry but with a lingering sweetness that balances nicely. Vinigar-cidery taste with a touch of spice, like cherry-pie (might be brett?) Thin body, barely carbonated. Not really my cup of tea, but complex enough to be interesting. Wouldn’t really want any great quantity of it, though. Many thanks to Boutip for the trade.
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