Girardin Gueuze Black Label

Brewed by Brouwerij Girardin
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Sint Ulriks-Kapelle, Belgium

375 ml bottle at Green’s on Ponce De Leon, and the last one at that! Yes, I am so happy they had this! Poured like a masterpiece! Nice fluffy head that is slowly fading away. Nice translucent dark orange color. Looks like a lovely beer to me. Ah, this beer has a lovely aroma. Sweet/sour fruit aroma coming through along with skunk and funk! Also, nice subtle brett smell. Even at a bit colder of a temperature this thing is still pungent as anything I have ever smelled. Hits the back of my nostrils..oh so pungent. Man the aroma just keeps developing, I am getting some charred wood, and leather as it warms up. Wow, taste is damn good. Nice sour taste at first, and then the thing really turns SOUR. Nice sour lemon and brett flavor. Also the sweet flavor mixes in quite well with the sour flavor. You get the best of both worlds. This beer just leaves a wonderful sweet fruit, sour, and brett taste in my mouth. Even after tasting it and licking my lips I get that sour flavor. Ah a little charred wood and leather in the flavor as well. Very smooth beer. Damn, I wish Green’s had more of this. By far one of the most delicious beers I have tried thus far.

12.7oz, corked & caged bottle from grape & gourmet. pours a very bright, gold with a thick, bubbly white head and solid lacing. aroma is pure, excellent, brett funk with big citrus notes of sour lemon, granny smith apple, sour white grape, with notes of barnyard, hay, burlap, dry leather, and wet wood. flavor is excellent and wonderfully tart with big, funky brett notes, sour apple skins, lemon zest, and a touch of sweet apricot with milder dry, grassy, barnyard, light malts, and earth leaving a dry, tart finish. palate is medium bodied, very dry and crisp, with a solid mouth puckering sourness. overall, a damn nice gueuze that was a great introduction to the style.

Bottle from K&L in Redwood City. Pours a slightly hazy brilliant golden color with a large white head and good lacing. Aroma is what you’d want from a great gueuze: citrus/lemon tartness and funk, maybe a touch of sweet malt as well. Flavor is funky tartness and lemon with some sweet pale malt poking through. Extremely well-balanced and good. Palate is sharp and acidic with soft carbonation and medium body. Very drinkable, not at all overly sour. This may be the best gueuze I’ve ever had.

Bouteille verte de 750 ml, avec bouchon de liège, partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Altair. Arôme: Odeur de citron et de pommes sûrettes. Apparence: La couleur est blonde. Présence d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de pommes vertes et de citron avec une pointe de pêches. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement vineuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement citronné. (Rating #2697)

Beer nr 100! Bottle, 37,5 cl. A beautiful, clear, light golden beer with bubbles rising beautifully and a medium creamy lacing white head that lasts till the end. The aroma is sour with some fruity notes, smelling very good in the nose. The taste is a good, complex mix of nice sourness, with some fruitiness, a little hop and a light sweet touch in the end. Dry aftertaste, very refreshing and very good gueuze, one of the best certainly! The perfect beer to be nr 100 to be rated.

Hazy pale orange with scant white head. Aroma of citrus and must. Sour complex taste with apples, lemons, and sweat. Nicely dry throughout.

Bottle. Hazy orange with a white head. The aroma was really special, hard to describe. A little yeast was there, and some citrus, but also like a well-used horse blanket? Vinegar perhaps? A very peculiar smell. The flavor contained a lot of green apples, citrus and a certain sweetness. The solvent was pretty dry. Sourness was great, a lot of carbonation. I like this one!

Bottle 0,375L (from Huis van de Geuze) Pours slightly hazy, golden with a relatively large and lasting, also lacing, white head. Very dry, complex and rather delicious aroma of sour apples, citric fruits, pretty strong bretty notes of barnyard& wood and some peachy sweetness. Starts with a feeling of carbons and citrus. Continues with a fruit sweetness (peach) and apple. Lovely sourness starts to grasp the palate and flavor. More citrus, funk, raw apples and leather. Very nice palate is well-carbonated and lively ending up sticky, acidic bone-dry. Marvelous beer!