Girardin Gueuze Black Label

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

375ml bottle. Gold-orange color with small carbonation and a creamy off-white head. Honey, lemon, wet wood, a floral aroma. Sour and acidic, with a little musty woodiness. Starts with a little sweetness, and then dry and tart. Has enough malt body to balance the tartness, and that is really the kicker for me. Light body and champagne-like carbonation. The balance and complexity are amazing. I didn’t really like gueuze before this, but the balance and drinkability of this beer has completely turned me around.

ZBF2008: as Girardin gueuze ongefiltered black label. Pours slight hazy orange, little lacing head. Aroma is light acidc with a mild woody note. Flavour is dry acidic to mild citric. Ends dry and acidic to woody.

Poured cloudy yellow with a bright white head and nice lace. Aroma is musty and sour. Flavor is lemon, sour, yeasty, apple-cider notes. Finish is dry and acidic--very refreshing.

Pours a hazy golden color with suspended particulates and small white airy head. Nose is tart, fruity,cirtusy and green apples. Initial taste is salty which explodes in sour acidity and freshly peel oranges that makes your mouth water. Barnyard funk, green apples, and champagne all arrive to the mid palate. Finishing with a sharp bitter astrigency, apple cider and wood notes. Mouthfeel is soft and smooth, light to medium body. Great head retention and splash lacing of the glass. Palate duration is good. Very tasty but was looking for depth and complexity.

Bottle at ZBF, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium: Gueuze with an great gueuze bite, hazy orange and subtile sourness in the back.

Fantastic flavor, ideal colour, strong taste, sterke nadronk mijn absolute favoriet in geuzes

bottle. pours a hazy honey with a thinnish white head that fizzes away quickly, but remains as a film. my! how tastes change! just six months ago, this would’ve been described the same, but rated rather harshly. and now, it’s just amazing. sharp lemon and orange zest in the nose, with background hints of sweaty funk, oak, and honey malts. lemony flavor, with the malt playing a much larger role, some vegetably barnyard and woodiness, rounded off with a few brighter and more colorful fruits, like orange again, and maybe some very subtle hints of sour cherries and even strawberries. sharp but not puckering sour finish, nice and dry, and with a nice light and pleasant sweetness. fairly light of body, oh so quenching, each sip beckons another. i was surprised by, and like, how malty this gueuze is. i was expecting a bit more complexity, but it’s definitely the right beer for the right time at the moment. very, very good.

Bottle courtesy of purfock: Poured a orangey color lambic with a huge foamy head with excellent retention and some good lacing. Aroma of green apple and tart is really great. Taste is a complex mix between some green apple, some sour and tart notes with some light funky barnyard notes. Full body with great carbonation. I appreciated that the level of acidity is manageable and doesn’t totally overrun the complexities.