4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle 375ml. Pours pale golden on a short white head. Got not too much aroma out of this one. Little yeast in the aroma, with hint of citrus. Taste is a little overwhelming at first, because the taste don’t prepare you for the taste that is coming. Taste is wonderful, citrus and spices punching you down. Wonderful beer!
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. Golden, hazy, small and very short head. Moderate and dryish aroma, sourish with some barn yard. Body is medium, malty and dry flavor, sourish with some barn yard. Finish is short, malty and dry, sourish and some alcohol. Bit flat geuze – or just bad bottle.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
750mL 2003 ed thanks to ygtbsm94. The pour is like an unblended: clear, flat, beautiful glowing orange with a handful of white bubbles trying to escape. The aroma is muted but let this sit for a minute and really work at (no carbonation means you’ll have to coax the aroma out yourself manually). Here you are greatly rewarded: huge citrus peel, brandy, curacao, lime, white peppercorn, must, vanilla, cognac soaked citrus. I am reminded here of Cantillon LH12. No joke. It is quite an experience. The taste is all grapefruit peel, bitter citrus rind, mouth-watering fresh geuze notes that can be difficult to describe: fresh pepper, dried and spiced blood orange peel, fresh Key lime yogurt. Ultra clean palate with just a hint of carbonation. Just a wicked geuze that is up there with the very best.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottled in 2009. Gold in colour with strong carbonation. Aromas are of oak, wet conifer, lemon, and mild funk. Intense yet well balanced in the mouth with more wood, funk, and acidic citrus all playing their roles well. Medium bodied. Not quite as acidic as Cantillon, yet slightly more intense than 3F. Very classy stuff.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours radioactive orange. Nose of tart fruit, dried grapefruit, tangerine rind and basement funk. Taste was a little flat, mostly tart fruit, grapefruit skin and tangerine rind.
2.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Not at all my cup of tea... sorry, beer. First taste is of a really sour lemon, but it gets after a while better. But good? Maybe if it was a cider.
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
375ml bottle from Ohtsuki. 2006. Lovely, dry, fruity aroma. Citrus, leather, dust. Quite fragrant and very dry. Medium orange gold with a thin head. Very sour, lemony, dry flavor, grapefruit too. Leather, funk, wood, extremely dry finish. Very flavorful. Pretty well carbonated, with the perfect amount of residual sugar. Love it.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Taste shared at Monk’s by fbm15 (BA). Tepid orange color, transparent, thin wispy white ring. Very pleasant nose, light hay, dirt, almost non-gueuze, light lime citrus, faint earth. Flavor is also pleasant, more Brett, lime sourness running along the jaw. Well carbonated but again pleasant. An exercise in balance, comes off more complex than it is, sourness lime and wheat allowed, because of balance. Destroyed a few vintage Lou Pepe Gs and Cantillon’s Monk’s Cafe.
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