Goose Island Juliet

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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In a way a very straight up sour ale. The color is very beautiful and the taste is sourly refreshing.

Smells and tastes of vinegar. Very sour but do also have taste of fruite, though l can not say specific with ones.

This beer have a very sour taste. It is very fresh but i might be a bit too sour. I would have to get used to this taste to give higher grades.

2009 vintage, bottled Aug 14. $16 @ Binny’s. Off to Thanksgiving weekend with my family, most of whom won’t be drinking. So I’m "laying down a layer." Oops! Opens with a gusher that won’t stop pumping foam out the top of the bottle. Once it finally calms down in my Goose Vintage stem glass, I have a cloudy caramel beer, a bit pinkish,with loose sediment, a loose foam on top. Has a definite red wine nose, with faint berry background subsumed by aromatic malt. Taste is quite tart. Lacks the creaminess of New Glarus Raspberry Tart. Another pour now shows a nice, fizzy champagne head. Starts to drink more like a champagne, thanks to, I assume, a secondary ferment. Tartness grows on me, with a little bit of fruit. May be a little shallow, but a decent American sour beer.

22oz bottle: pours a clear bright amber ruby with a small, stringy-lacing white head. Has a lightly sweet fruity nose with some vinous oak and tartness. Starts with light effervescence and a touch of berries with lots of puckering tartness, acetic acid and cabernet notes. Finishes crisp and sweet-tart with good vinous complexity. True to style and enjoyable.

Bottle from Ølbutikken. A bit hazy orange with a minimal head. A very nice beer this one. Nicely sour with wood, berries, yeast, green apples and grapes. Dry mouthfeel. The finish was very tart. A very refreshing beer.

2010 bomber from a trade 2 years ago... Deep brilliant ruby red with a white head. Acidic, vinous nose with some band aid tartness. Nice oak levels with dark fruits, Cabernet notes and a pleasing level of acidity throughout ... The band aid notes are distracting and bring the beer down a few notches. Semi tart finish with lots of blackberries and more band aid.

UPDATED: NOV 9, 2012 65 cl Bottle. Pours hazy pale red/amber with a small, pinky off-white head. Nose of brett and sour berries. Dry flavor with caramel, black berries, brett and spice + wood notes, that ends up quite tart. Light to medium bodied, watery texture and soft CO2. Quite smooth for a sour ale.Nice for my taste.★★★★

Bomber from Probus Wines, Dublin: 2012 Vintage. Pours deep rose with thin bubbly pinky/white head. Aroma is blackberry, leather, lemon juice, red fruits. Taste is incredible: great balance between the juicy sweetness of the berry notes and the lacto sourness. Plenty of tannin goodness to add to the full-on taste profile. Slight leathery, earthy barnyard funk comes through but nothing overbearing - the tartness compliments the berry/red wine notes perfectly. Such a long taste to this: wonderful evolution of flavours linger and develop on the tongue for a long while. Great almost lemony tart zing finishes it off. This would be a great intro to sours for someone, and a real treat for sour-heads; well worth the significant cost.

Light, crisp, refreshing. Perfect amount of tartness. Alcohol is so well hidden. I cant imagine this being any better.