 FatPhil (2339), Espoo, Finland
Jun 10, 2007
330ml Bottle (One Pint, Helsinki)
Very lively, enormous light fluffy head. Sharp bitter aroma, very guezy. Hugely bitter and sharp taste, loads of grapefruit. Cleans the mouth and leaves a dry bitter finish that lasts for ever, leaves some malt too in the late finish.
LilBeerDoctor (623), East Setauket, New York, USA
Sep 13, 2008 Bottle. Pours a light light orange with a small white head, lots of carbonation. Aroma of lots of tart, sour funk, sweettart candies, light banana. Aroma of nice sweet tartness. Not a lot of funk in this beer, just sour/sweet tartness. Very nice gueuze, very drinkable.
fredandboboflo (617), East Setauket, New York, USA
Sep 13, 2008 Bottle. Aroma of barnyard, lemon, cherry, peach, maybe some sour apple. Flavor quite tart and sour (solidly but not abrasively so), slightly but not overwhelmingly funky. Tart grapes in the finish. Enveloping tickling tartness, yet stellar drinkability at once. Great stuff.
slimchill (645), Austin, Texas, USA
Sep 12, 2008 Bottle. Nose is deep and invigorating. Bretty barnyard aromas complimented by cherry, lemon, and a light spiciness. Cloudy bright orange with a patchy head. Flavor is a delicious balance of fruit and funk. Peaches, lemon, grapefruit, and deep acidic notes. Palate is thick for a gueuze, which really lets the complexity show. Fantastic.
trokini (868), San Diego, California, USA
Sep 10, 2008 Pours hazy bronze with a 1 cm tall white head. Pleasant aroma of bitter crabapples, yeast, and musk. Wicked bitter bite. Very sour and acidic, with a mostly apple flavor and some metal. This bitterness continues throughout, but at the very end the beer takes a mellow, sweeter turn. A buttery, biscuit-like flavor burns thorugh. Sometimes it leans into a cheese flavor, like maybe an emmentaler. Delicious sipper of a beer.
MrChopin (200), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Sep 9, 2008 Hazy orange-gold with a short lived white head, moderate lacing. The nose is as cohesive as it comes. The only complaint is that it’s not incredibly strong, but put your nose to the glass: tart yet sweet fruits, like a braeburn apple, dry dusty frontier, urea, sweet belgian malt reminiscent of honey, cobwebs and old newspaper, cheese... they just go round and round…The flavor is definitely sweeter than expected, even un-sour for a gueuze: tart, dry, leathery, and musty, yet also sweet and slightly malty. The palate is perfectly dry and refreshing, long-lasting in tart apple and sweet malt that cling perfectly. I drank this after 3 Fonteinen Oude Gueze, and the difference in quality is clear. Refined and unique, Girardin Black is immediately noticeable in the same way that Westvleteren 12 and Struise Pannepot sail above their respective competitors.
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