Girardin Gueuze Black Label

Amber body with a biiig head. Tarty and cheesy aroma. Amazing tartiness, cheezy hops and grassy body. Finishes with acid and much hay.

Wow. So sour. I love it. Smells like raisins, fresh bread and rotten sour apples?!? (in a good way) Lots of sour fruit taste. Some biscuit. Lovely.

From the bottle pours amber/gold, very clear, with a white head. Sourness was very subtle compared to many of the gueuze i’ve had. Lots of great wild funk, dry straw, must, tart fruits. Sourness and acidity didn’t try to take away anything from this beer, actually very crisp and refreshing.

Bottle at Horsens Beerfestival. This is on h.... of an geuzeresque geuze. Huge levels of dried fruits and acid. Carbonationlevel like champagne and a finish lasting the rest of the evening. Dry, dry and dry. As beautiful as it is impossible to finish off yourself. Perfect New Years Eve brew.

Tarty aroma, candy apples, floral and gras notes. Acidic and tarty taste, with hints of malts, incredible citrus and orange. Classic and classy, this is very refreshing. Perhaps the most easy to drink gueuze considering the tartyness I´ve tasted so far. Outhouse, hey and grass, a world class lambic!

Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. Found a bottle of this stuff that must’ve been years old on a shelf in NYC, that wasn’t there a week before. Chances our they found a few lying around the back, likely that had been left upside-down considering the cork and neck were dripping with yeast. This one had the biggest cork pop of any beer I’ve ever had, firing the cork far across the room. Pours with a huge head that laces beautifully. Aroma is fabulous... richly oaky and sour, cherries, vanilla, sage, spruce, hay... absolutely intoxicating. Flavor is rich and more sour, pungent and toxic sour apple, barnyard, slight oak. A little thin on the palate is my only real complaint about this beer. The sourness is soft but prevalent, and the oak notes are outstanding. World class!

Ever been curious as to what a gueuze should taste like? This is it. Very representative of the style. Beautiful use of wild yeast cultures and allowing the local environment to impact the flavour and add to the unique characteristics of this interesting brew. Sour and fruity flavour that leads to citrus and oak. The fun part is the horse hair, smoky and spicy flavours that are present from the brett character. Don’t be afraid! Give it a try.

Bottle. Hazy golden orange color with a huge frothy head. Sour, fruity aroma. As expected the taste, after a fleeting sweetness, is lemony and grapefruity and ends with some dryness. Very easy to drink and enjoy.