3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle@Home. Funkt barnyard aroma with citrus and oak. Yellow color, no head or lace. Maltsweet, sour, hints of oak, citrus and some bitterness. Not exceptional but pleasant. Very citrus fruit juice like.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled. Hazy yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is sour fruits and apricot. Flavour is very sour, earthy and mouldy. Not very exciting in my opinion...
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ 16th Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 2007, Opstal. Hazy medium yellow color with a small fizzy fair lacing mostly diminishing white head. Aroma is heavy sour, grainy, hay. Flavor is light sweet and heavy acidic with a long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Slightly hazy, brownish body; Very grainy, very little sour aroma, aromas as a to young lambic; Very 1-dimensional sour green apple like; Very warm wooden finish. Taste like it ain’t ready.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A Mes rate:
Bottled at the brewery during the Toer de Geuze. Lovely orange / yellow colour with a big bubbly head. Sadly it’s all just run of the mill from there. Much too mellow all round and a little over carbed. As I said, run of the mill.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Clear yellow coloured, light carbonation, average but diminishing white head. Complexe sour aroma, hints of wooden cask, cork, light fruity. Medium to full body, sprankling in the palate. Finish is combination of sour and astringent bitter. Complex, difficult beer.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear golden body, huge foamy fast disappearing head. Strong yeasty aroma, together with citrus (lemon). Very acidic and sour flavour.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
This gueuze makes me mad, because it shows that De Troch actually can make good beer. But instead of making it widely available they pour sugar, fruit syrup and other stuff in it to ruin in and make it drinkable for people who doesn’t like lambic. What a waste.
Slightly hazy light golden colored, fizzy white head. Really nice aroma of wild fermentation with a well balanced grapefruity sourness and a tone of barnyard. Actually very nice, had it been a little more powerfull, would it have gotten a higher score. Excellent and actually very tart flavor with penetrating lemon notes that gives a nice freshness plus a dry woodyness that makes the balance almost perfect. Biding and sharp, wow I’m really surprised by this!! It might not be the greatest gueuze I have had, but it is up there among the top ones. DE TROCH, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? (can’t wait to taste my rabbit in gueuze tonight that got the rest of the bottle :-)
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