Girardin Gueuze Black Label

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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This beer is awesome... I kept it on it’s side for a week in the fridge and enjoyed it in my garden. Refreshing, tasty... this is perfection

Bottled 02.2004 - Beautifully golden, orange with a low but creamy white head that lasts; Incredible nose, deep and super complex, the full geuze package of lemon/citrus, very fresh green apples under it notes of cigar box (ceder+tobaco), hay, horse (uuuhhhhhhhh fantastic!!!!!); The body has a super balance, acidy fresh with a very, very little and nice, soft sweetness to it; The finish is fantastic as well. It is perfectly dry (not super dry), with very little tannin that brings a mouth-feel that makes you want to chew the beer. All this with a lemon/grapefruit, later cedar touch, that lasts forever. This is for sure my favorite geuze, if not my favorite beer of all. This is a masterpiece!!!!

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2010 I think I found my new love. This is a new experience for me kind of like when you had your first IPA or Imp. Stout. This was an unclear orange color beer with a nice white head. The aroma had sour fermented fruit, apples, mint, eucalyptus, funky barnyardness. The aroma is amazingly complex. The taste was very sour, overripe light colored fruits with an interesting taste of fruit skins, funkiness, & very mouth puckering. Every drink I taste something different and is so complex it is hard to put a finger on everything I am tasting. Every time I see this beer I will buy as many as possible at that given time. Should be in the Top 50.

Taste follows and is the perfect level of tartness. Really just an incredibly easy drinker with unbelievable flavor. Probely the best payable gueuze in the world

UPDATED: JUN 25, 2006 Golden-amber with chill haze. Complex aroma of leather, pears, peaches, feet, dust, old wood and farmhouse cheshire. Bracing acidity and extreme complexity of wood, cheese, acids, grapefruit, kumquat, pommelo and old saddle. Insane complexity. Brilliant balance. Balls front intensity. Fucking amazing.

UPDATED: JUL 2, 2003 Ushered through the massive barn, the oak from the horse stalls and the leather from the saddles linger in the air, but I am pulled further. . directed down a spiral stone staircase into the cellar, I push aside a large cobweb and step onto the soft earthen floor; aromas unimagined consume my existence. Clean and totally organized this cellar is unlike any I have come across: all of the cobwebs and dust are in perfect order, with a complexity never before seen. I hope I find St. Peter in a barn like this.

A beautiful beer. I’d have to agree with Oakes sentiments (see his comments from 11/2001) Complex, tart but not overly so. A slight sweetness to soften it a bit. Extremely refreshing. An unexpected but wonderful surprise given I grabbed it of the shelf without any foreknowledge of its existence

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2010 Bottled 375ml. Vintage 2003. Courtesy of bierkoning. Mindblowingly fantastic, complex and delicious. Nuff said. Big thanks! Rerate: Staying with the initial rating. Incredibly, indefinitely wonderful.

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2008 Aroma is lemony, seriously yeasty, apples skins, a bit of baby sick, Amazing. Taste is similar though not as sour as expect, not balanced by anymeans, but going that way. Possibly the easiest drinking gueuze iv ever had, defo one to get again. RERATE: Up from 4.6 - 4.9. Gueuze is the finest beverage ever made! RERATE: 750 at Blackfriars while working. The complexity and body of this beast is outstanding, yet the drinkability is crazy. The whole 750 was gone in about 10 mins.

UPDATED: APR 1, 2012 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, lots of lemon and yogurt, some melon and orange. Light, briny olives. Medium body with lively carbonation, fills the mouth, soft and succulent. Hands down, the best, most consistently awesome, regularly bottled gueuze. Rating based on ’09 through ’11 bottlings.