De Neve Gueuze

Brewed by Belle-Vue (InBev)
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottle @ RBBWG. hazy amber coloured gueuze with a small white head and some very light carbonation. Nice balanced sour grainy tart hinted aroma. Medium to full palate. Finish is sour fruity hinted with some tart malty dry endings. Very good.

Sampled @ RBBWG Antwerpen. Cloudy orange color, small white head. Smell vinegar, cellar and sourness. Taste very acidic: ok, but not really my thing. Average mouthfeel.

2011-01-29 - shared by jerc & mabel with me and blankboy. 375ml green bottle best before 1998. Clear light gold with pretty much no head, looks like flat apple juice (3- only because I don’t want to dis the aged). Aroma is hugely pungent and sour, my nose hairs curled away from it - like sun-scorched straw and lemon and lanolin - this is 15 years old? Really?? The taste follows, but solid honey sweetness in the background - no alcohol to speak of; simple. Still and acidic mouthfeel, quite sticky, but almost tooth enamel dissolvingly sour, leaves a dry aftertaste. Gooooood stuff.

1991 Vintage bottle at Akkurat. Stockholm, 28th September 2011
Pours clear brown without and head - it’s long gone. Sherry-like aromas of sugar, nuts, sour fruit, grapes and some spice. Low carbonation. The taste is very oxidated just like the aromas. Very dead but still quite drinkable with some nice flavours.

750ml bottle. Hazy golden in color with a small white head. Funky and mildly acetic aroma, pretty nice. Acetic flavor with a good funkiness. On the more sour side for the style. Medium body with a good carbonation level and fairly prominent acidity. Pretty good stuff, but far from elite.

Dark gold, transparent white head, creamy small bubbles. Sweet nose, quite dusty though and with a totally unique element, perhaps armoire, that I’ve not yet tasted. Acetic acid sparkles a bit, keeping things fresh. Flavor is a bit more acetic, but again this is balanced by the aged elements, very dusty furniture and wood, bit of papery oxidation in the finish. Not as sour as it is “old”, which I found totally interesting and unique.

Etwas süßlicher Antrunk und Mittelteil. Bis hierhin scheint die Säuerlichkeit zurückgedrängt und kommt dann, abgemildertm zum Tragen und fügt sich perfekt ein. Von nun an ist sie, obglcih der Schwäche, tonangebend. Zum Ende minimal scharf. /11/12/12//11

Bottle [375ml] shared with HogTownHarry, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Best before 1998! Pours a murky bubbly golden-orange with a spare to no head, almost oily looking. Aroma: Whoa, that’s a nice sour fruit aroma! Flavour is so sour and lovely. Medium bodied. What an amazing rare treat, thanks jerc & mabel!