Liefmans Goudenband

Sweet honey malt aroma. Brown red colour with great head and lacing. Bitter malt hop flavour with pepper. Fizzy palate.

[Bottle] Pours clear reddish-brown with a tan head. Aroma is acidic, cherry, caramel and a touch of brown sugar. Taste is sweet, raisin, and a light sourness. Medium mouthfeel and quite smooth. A pretty good beer overall, but I found the taste to be just a slight letdown compared to the aroma.

12.7oz, 2006 vintage. Pours a hazy, dark ruby-brown with some particulates; thin light-tan head with fine-bubbled lacing. Lots of overripe cherries, soft vinegar (nothing sharp), leather and tobacco in the aroma; not as much tartness as I’d like to see, but still a pleasant, fruity malt character that isn’t overly acidic or flabbily full of vinegar (i.e., a solid step up from Duchesse). Medium mouthfeel: very light carbonation; viscous, chewy red and dark fruits, not quite as overripe as the aroma suggests; not a lot of tartness, but the funky, balsamic fruit core is pretty tasty; some pleasant acidity to balance things out, along with a bit of citrus and loads of ripe-to-overripe cherries all throughout this beer. Medium finish, with some breadiness coming through, toasty malts and residual dried cherries; a bit of heaviness left at the far end.

Robust reddened brown look. Cherry vinaigrette aroma, lightly sweet. Warm, brown sugar, reduced berry syrup, maple flavor. Residual sweetness. Swath of cherry flavor, though of a wholly sweet variety, offering only a brief nip of tart turn before the finish. Some balsamic with that waft of aged, musty, dark and gritty sweet; barnlike funk of dusted earthy yeasts. Fairly heavy in the mouth; syrupy body softly carbonated with noticeably peppery heat throughout. Interesting, though not completely suitable, in approach and result; a type of winter sour.

Bottle, from Noel Cuveliers, Abele. Deep caramel, light tan head lingering all the way down the glass. Musty raw sugar aroma, concord grapes, soft sherry alcohol notes. Spicy apple and grape tartness, dry leaves--a combination strongly reminicent of that last surprise warm autumn day, a last flourish before settling in for the long cold. Rummy dark sugar, softly dry salty-tart finish. A very curious beer my brain finds hard to classify. Nevermind, I dig it anyway.

An undeniably meaty beer, which has this flemish brune hint of vinigar in the taste. Slightly sour but very different from the geuzes. The appearance is very yeasty and almost groce while the palate is nice and balance, with an edgy aftertouch. Interesting beer - goes better without food I’ll say.

Pours a light brown color with almost no head. Aroma is malty, sugary, and some funky character. Flavor is sweet sugary, funk, brett, and a sweet sugary finish.

37,5 cl bottle at my small outdoor tasting together with Kjetil B., Roger and Asgeir. Brown color, moderate tan head. Big sediment bites early in the bottle. Aroma is dried fruit, and a lot of other things that´s hard to point out. Flavor is the same, with a nice sweetness. Balanced beer, but maybe not very complex.