Heeren van Liedekercke 20 Anniversary Blend

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

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Sampled at STLWill’s 30th b-day tasting. I may have rated this one higher if I had it on it’s own instead of being in the middle of so many excellent other beers. Pours clear amber/orange with an off-white head. The aroma is citrusy, clean and a bit maltiness than most lambics with some pale and caramel malt on the nose. Medium / light crisp body with mild semi-sharp carbonation. The taste is very tart and sour with apricot and some vinegar and lots of fruitiness. There are some medicinal traits and aspirin along with an alcohol taste that seems odd for a 6.5% beer. This is decent, but not up to the standards of others in the tasting tonight.

Corked bottle. Orange blonde color. Oak, lemon and peach in the almost vinous aroma. Sour oaky flavor with lemon, grapefruit and hints of pineapple. Good complexity. Lovely gueuze.

Thanks to Blake for sharing! Poured clear, honeyed golden with a tall, fizzy white head. The aroma picked up zesty lemon, foot funk, and light leather over a soft pale malty base.. vinegary on the back of the nose. The flavor found tart lemon, vinegar, and fairly fresh oak on the tip of the tongue.. funky, but a tad restrained.. more vinegar, funk, and some floral notes on the long, refreshing finish. Tangy on the palate with high carbonation.. felt good, but a little too clean.

Bottle. Hazy dark golden with a small white head. This was a soft and sympathetic Gueuze. Not extremely tart but nicely drinkable. Wood, apples, funk, lemon and yeast.

Trevlig syrlig doft. Tydlig fat och äpple. Smaken är lite mer beskeden. Lätt, fruktig utan större syrlighet. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

75cl Bottle at AHBS. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma is sour, lemon, funky, light sweet floral. Flavour is sour, lemons, acid, funk, light dung, lemon sour finish. Light bodied. Quite nice actually, but also a bit too sour for my taste.

UPDATED: MAY 25, 2012 2006 Bottle to oversized snifter (thanks to hop20). Looks great and smells solid too. Funky deliciousness!

Pours golden orange with an offwhite head. The aroma is sweet and zesty from the yeast. The flavor is sweet, zesty, and light but pleasantly tart on the tongue.

24/III/2012 - 75cl bottle @ VBPF ’12 (Jette) - BB: n/a (2012-281)

Clear orange beer, big yellowish head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: tobacco, citrus, peppery, lemon juice, touch of liquor. MF: good carbon, medium body. Taste: lemony, mandarin, peppery, typical geuze barnyard. Aftertaste: fruity, mandarines, little bitter, some slightly sweet touch.

Bottle @ VBPF’12. Dorée paille, col épais blanc cassé. Arôme est typique de gueuze, renfermé, aigre, citronné avec un léger fruité. En bouche, étable, renfermé, aigre, citronné, râpant sur la langue, fruité amer, houblon fleuri sec, note d’épice, froment. Le tout garde ce profile boisé/épicé sur un long fini sec/aigre avec ce long fini presque de sciure aigre qui reste sur la langue. Comme souvent avec une gueuze, assez dur à décrire, ça reste dans la lignée sans pour cela être mémorable.

Bottle, 03/16/2012. Opens a gusher with huge foamy head, clear golden orange pour. Head dies down to almost nothing after a minute or so. Nose is fruity, apricots and apples prevalent, with musty, earthy tartness evident with barnyard aromas. Taste is tart citrus and apples, acidity low for geuze, peppery earthy funk, oak finish. High carbonation and dry finish, lacking a strong aftertaste, but balanced and drinks easy. Well done, but perhaps a little too clean at this point- look forward to seeing how it develops.