Liefmans Goudenband

Thanks Deniz. Pours a murky reddish brown with a one finger frothy tan head. The aroma had kriek elements, mellow, some bubblegum, a little tart. The flavor tasted like a dark mellow kriek, light spice, barely tart. The palate was smooth and not very acidic. Tasted more like a kriek than a sour ale.

37,5 cl. bottle rapped in paper (great way to label the whole bottle). Pours a nice clear red-brown colour, lots of yeast at the bottom, hardly any head. Bit sweet deep malty and yeasty aroma with some sourbness. The flavour is sweet with pleasant roastish malt, caramel, good bitterness, mould and dark fruits. Dry bit sweet finish.

375ml bottle. Marked as a 2006 vintage. I guess sour ales aren’t my thing. Aroma is strongly young red wine (very tanic wine eat that), alchol with sour grapes, belgian yeast, and some soapyness. Pours with a smallish, frothy, light brown head that disapates. Murky red-tinged-brown body with lots of tiny particles floating about. Taste starts very sweet and then goes really sour with grapes and alcohol. Not bade tasting, but nothing to special, and it doesnt taste very balanced or refined. Watery mouthfeel, a bit of fizzy bubbles. Much more drinkable that their other sour ales that I have tried, but I am not a huge fan.

2004 bottle shared by Marcus. Thanks for the experience. Rich dark fruit aromas, like dark cherry. Dark brown color with a rocky, tan head. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Mild cherry over roasted malt flavor. Very smooth. Very fruity and flavorful. Finish is mildly brown and fruity. A well balanced brew.

375, corked and baled. Has a mini-cork in it, which shot out of the glass after I threw away the bale, before I could turn back around the counter. Pop! Hit the ceiling, bounced back down and skittered across the counter. No geyser, though--just a wisp of vapor and a cartoon moment.
Dense, grainy dark ruddy brown with a biggish tan head. Not much lace, not much stamina on the head. Big sweet and sour nose, that’s for sure. Earthy, berry-like, fruity. Medium body, soft carb. Very drinkable without a doubt. More earth, berries, fruit, and yeast on the mid-palate, with a mild and restrained sweet and sour finish. Well done.

Pours a dark brown with a nice but small tan head. The nose is a sweet and sour maltiness that could be sniffed again and again. The beer is very tart on the mid-palate and then finishes with a nice sweetness that is not cloying in anyway.

One of my all time favorite beers. Sweet and sour elixer is sure to please.

2007 bottling tasted Feb 2008.

Cork opens with an aggressive pop. Pours a deep brown, nice tan head, fair bit of floating matter. The aroma is malt vinegar and cherries, a hint of soy sauce.

Lovely blend of sour finishing sweet, acidic tones quickly yield to strong flavors of cherries (my wife thought it must have had cherries added!), plenty of cherry pit and oak tannins, lovely sweet turn to fruit caramel recalling Kuhnhenn’s Raspberry Eisbock slipped in behind a sour ale.

Beautiful microcarbonation creates a full smooth but active mouthfeel, just lovely, mild acid burn on the back of the throat, nothing intense, neither too thick nor to thin, just on target.

Man this is good stuff. I can’t wait to try a bottle with more age on it. But if I want more age, wait I must.