Girardin Gueuze Black Label

Bottle. Nose is deep and invigorating. Bretty barnyard aromas complimented by cherry, lemon, and a light spiciness. Cloudy bright orange with a patchy head. Flavor is a delicious balance of fruit and funk. Peaches, lemon, grapefruit, and deep acidic notes. Palate is thick for a gueuze, which really lets the complexity show. Fantastic.

Pours hazy bronze with a 1 cm tall white head. Pleasant aroma of bitter crabapples, yeast, and musk. Wicked bitter bite. Very sour and acidic, with a mostly apple flavor and some metal. This bitterness continues throughout, but at the very end the beer takes a mellow, sweeter turn. A buttery, biscuit-like flavor burns thorugh. Sometimes it leans into a cheese flavor, like maybe an emmentaler. Delicious sipper of a beer.

Hazy orange-gold with a short lived white head, moderate lacing. The nose is as cohesive as it comes. The only complaint is that it’s not incredibly strong, but put your nose to the glass: tart yet sweet fruits, like a braeburn apple, dry dusty frontier, urea, sweet belgian malt reminiscent of honey, cobwebs and old newspaper, cheese... they just go round and round…The flavor is definitely sweeter than expected, even un-sour for a gueuze: tart, dry, leathery, and musty, yet also sweet and slightly malty. The palate is perfectly dry and refreshing, long-lasting in tart apple and sweet malt that cling perfectly. I drank this after 3 Fonteinen Oude Gueze, and the difference in quality is clear. Refined and unique, Girardin Black is immediately noticeable in the same way that Westvleteren 12 and Struise Pannepot sail above their respective competitors.

Thanks to Dim for this one Bottle poured into my tulip glass produced the required two fingers of white billowy head that lasted a while. The head then trailed of to a nice covering of lace. The body on this was a hazy orange The aromas from the glass were nice and funky. Sour apples come to mind as I whiff it again the acidity on this is very present in the nose do I dare taste it? WOW I’m glad I like sours this one is quite intense. I let my teens have a sip and they thought it was some sour head candy drink LOL. It reminds me of a crab apple or a transparent apple pie I am a sucker for a good sour apple pie. Some grapefruit citrus as well in here flavor wise. The mouthfeel is crisp and dry good carbonation very refreshing Drinkability is a strange question for a sour I finished the bottle, but Do you want to do more than one sour at a sitting? I enjoyed the brew and would gladly drink it again. Truly a great brew and deserves to be tried by every sour fan

Pours out hazy golden color. Smells great. Taste is tart and funky. Yeasty with a dry sour finish. Very drinkable .

Bottle at Hamilton’s for "Boobies and Beer". Thanks to the guy, whose name I didn’t get, for pouring me a taster of this for no good reason at all. I owe you big time. I sat there for a couple of minutes just smelling. I couldn’t bring myself to drink it immediately because it simply smelled wonderful. I would sniff and smile. My mouth was watering with the anticipation, but I just couldn’t help myself. When I finally did get around to drinking it, I was not disappointed at all. It was definitely tart/sour, but not shockingly so. The fruit flavor burst and tingled like fireworks, and left with puckering dry mouth. I think I might be in trouble with this one, at $XX.XX bucks a bottle.

Bottle. Pours a hazy golden orange with tall off-white head. The aroma is spicy and very earthy with a good lactic sourish hint and some dank cellar and white cheese. The flavor is quite sour, with a quite assertive spicy yeast quality. Earth and leather tones are throughout, but a little bit of a floral hint sneaks out once in a while. It finishes very dry, with an unexpected orange-blossom note. Delicious.

Bottle courtesy of dchmela. Wowsers, this is good. Deep golden hazy pour with orange tint. Yeasty sour nose, some great leather and horseblanket as well as some strawberries and notes of acetic acid. Lovely dusty aroma. Not overly sour on the palate, but definitely tingles and has a great little bite on the back and sides of the tongue. Playful and fun, and oh-so-delicious.