Girardin Gueuze Black Label

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

Ah, heavenly gueuze, return sweetly to my lips. A shallow pour, elicits furtive and bright carbonation, gassing the most piquant and lively tones of musky grape skins, cob-webbed attic planks, long grassy warm days and a sweeping sharp bite of acidic splendor. Faint washed-rind cheese lactic blend with lightly soured apple juice and a passionfruit. Nice. In the glass, a lightly hazed orange-tinted gold, with a soft, soapy head of white. On the tongue, it’s alive with bold, bowling acidity, bright, clear and clean. Quiet tones of wheat sugars whisper through the veil of bold soured candies. Musty pig barns and scatterd straw elicit a note of farms and apples. Out among the earthy glow is a vibrant bowl of fresh wet cranberries, puckering the corners of my mouth. So, fresh and delicate. A wisp of flowery perfume fills the humours, percolating the dying hop dryness. Beautiful all around.

Clear, pale body with a small white head, fading. The aroma is very lactic, heavy horseblanket, lots of cheese and light melon. The flavor is very dry and sour, but a bit one dimensional. Lots of lemon and yogurt, some melon and orange. Medium body with lively carbonation, fills the mouth, soft and succulent.

Golden as most gueuze with a thin white head. Faint aroma of vinegar, pineapple, lemon lime and a hint of barnyard. Salty to the taste with again pineapple and vinegar. Nice and tart but short lived on the tongue. Somewhere in the middle ground of complexity, tasty...(6, 3, 8, 4, 16)
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Bottle from Quaffs.
Golden topped with a nice lasting white head. Aroma is lemon/lime, yeast, vinegar and hay. Tart and salty with lemon, vinegar and yeast, coats your mouth and leaves you wanting more. Great palate for a geuze, thick and syrupy. I can see why this is rated one of the best

City Beer, San Francisco 7/06. 375ml. Hazy golden/amber with large white head. Musty tart aroma. Pleasant tart musty flavor milder less vinegary than Cantillion. Good body welll balanced. Very good.

The cork flew out of the bottle, but there was no beer spewage, as some others have reported. This beer pours with a nice creamy off white head. The aroma is great for the style. Nice funky tart smell. The hand pulls the glass form the mouth as the first drops hit the tongue. The acidity and tartness, while expected by the brain, still surprise the tongue. But once the tongue gets used to the tartness, it processes the flavors that were predicted by the first smell. Very complex, funky flavor. And very good. Mouthfeel is nice and light, with a lot of carbonation. Overrall, a great Gueuze.

375ml, dated 08/05. poured a semi-hazy gold with big white head. the nose bursting with sour peaches, brett, and oak. very funky nose. flavor is sour at first then smoothly develops into a really bretty flavor and that continues into really tart peach finish. finishes extremely dry. palate is lively, full, and perfect. the best gueuze i’ve had so far.

pours a peach hay colour small white fizzy head. lots of bubbles. tha aroma is sweet and sour fruit very nice mixture. flavour is sour appple with some citrus and a very sour pungent finish. the palate comes alive with this one. i never thought i would like tart and sour beer, but i am in love with them now. a fantastic gueuze.

Pours hazy peach-gold with a one-finger white head. Very dirty aroma, with big barnyardy and musty notes. Fruit comes through as apple, peach, and orange. Some wood, but not so much oak barrel as green yew. Very unique flavor, even for a gueuze. The tartness and dirtiness are there, but accompanied mid-sip by a sweet, juicy, orange taste. The end is grassy and citrusy. Earthy aftertaste that I’d like to see stick around a little more than it does. Excellent.