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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2009 Vintage bottled August 14, 2009. AROMA: Aroma of berries and wine. APPEARANCE: Pours a cloudy reddish gold color with lots of soap like foam. Head is white with a red hue. TASTE: First taste is tart berries and earthy, then quickly turns tart and finishes try with a woody taste. PALATE: Crisp and lively, lots of carbonation here. OVERALL: I’m a really big fan of this beer. In my opinion, it is the best of the three sisters. I still have one bottle of 2009 left and have yet to try the 2010. Can the "new" Goose Island keep up the quality? I hope so!

Bottle. 22 oz. Split with Tom and his buddy. Pours a brownish ruby with a small, off-white, tiny-bubbled head. Aroma of raspberries, cranberries, pinot noir, stringent sour yeast, and some strawberry jam. It’s outrageously delicious; musty, oaky, full of vinious notes complex sour red grapes, and huge heaps of strawberry and raspberry preserves. Body is supple, and palate is tongue-cuttingly tart, and wonderfully dry. This is a tremendously well-rounded and balanced sour ale. Fantastic.

G: Poured into a Duvel tulip glass. A: Beautiful orange-pink rose color with a frothy, slightly pink head. S: Mostly sour notes. Tart fruit of cherries and blackberries. T: Sweet and sour from the outset. Makes you pucker on the first sip, and then mellows more into the fruity, sweet flavors, especially as it warms more toward room temperature. M: Sour on the tip of the tongue and the sides of the cheeks. Very light and crisp. Moderate to minimal carbonation. D: Very solid overall. Goose Island is really stepping up its game with the new collection.

Bottle shared at BBQ with some buds. Was pretty excited to pop the top on this one. Ruby red color with very minimal head. Aroma was pretty intense. The fruit and citrus really jump out at you. Flavor is semi sweet with a nice sour tartness that hits you in the back of the jaw. A very stellar beer.

Ah yes, I’m ready to give Juliet the GOOSE! This poured a reddish pink color with a white head. The aroma contains cherries, apples, and vinegar. The flavor is sour with more cherries, apples, and vinegar. Some spices notes show through. Overall I dig sours and I dig this too!

Big thanks to the Goose Island people for bringing this to Des Moines Brew Fest. Pours a nice hazy pink with some odd perfectly round floaties, berry seeds? Weird yeast? I have no idea. Aroma has some berries, they used blackberries eh? I guess that seems about right, I caught some raspberry in the aroma, along with plenty of funk and oak and a little vinous character. The flavor is dry and sour with a nice fruitiness from the berries, it’s funky and tart and beautiful. I need more of this.

Murky red color with a small, white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of vanilla, wood, berries, leather, and wild yeast. Taste of berries, vanilla, wine, and a sour finish.

In short: A very tart, dry and oaky beer with plenty of tart fruits (raspberries mainly).
How: Bottle 22oz, vintage 2009, bottling may 2009. Consumed when almost 1.5 year of age
The look: Gusher. Cloudy dark pink body topped by a large pink head
In long: Intense nose that is dry, tart and fruity. This is like smelling raspberry seeds, cherry pits, etc. Taste is super sharp. Tart raspberries, crisp wheat, cranberries, sour white grapes, cherries, raspberry seeds, cherry skin, lots of oak, some strawberries. Tartness level is through the roof, medium acidity, low sourness, very astringent. Sharp dry finish leaving fruit acidity after-taste. This is a Sour Ale (more like a Tart Ale) that is very intense but also manages to be highly drinkable. Overall the flavor profile of this beer is like an oaky fruit Berliner Weisse, as if Dieu Du Ciel would oak age their Solstice d’Été aux Framboises. To quote William Shakespeare: " What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.". On a related note, I am amazed at the number movie plots that were accurately predicted by Shakespeare.

A Mes rate. Bottle at Borefts 10am day after hotel tasting.
An excellent red amber colour with a pinky off white head. An amazing Belgian style base beer with a stunning delicate sourness. Beautiful stuff, clean as hell and really downable. Something that reminds me a lot of Mr. Kipling’s Cherry Bakewell tarts. And that’s a good thing. Lovely dry finish with plenty of barrel showing but it sits just right. Excellent beer.

2009 Bottle - thanks to Toby. Pours an orange amber with a thin beige head. Aroma is sour and tart with fruity notes and oak. Dry, lingering vinous and oaky tart taste. Very rich and puckering. Has gueuze similarities... Delicious!