Liefmans Goudenband

Murky brown with a thin but persistent head. Nice smell of cherries, caramel. Medium body and lightly carbed. A mostly sweet flavor is of pit fruits with a tart earthy dryness to balance.

Aroma: Sour cherries and raspberries. Very acidic. Dark Cloudy Brown bubbly head. Interesting sour fruit flavor but no overwhelming, nice and sweet in the finish. Smooth and clean palate. Easy to drink, very delightful.

Bottle. Nose is light caramel, dark fruit, and a faint acidity. Cloudy dark brown with a quick-fading head. Balanced sourness punctuated by sweet malt notes. Vinuous body, rich and clean. Fantastic.

2006 vintage bottle from West Lakeview Liquors, Chicago. Dark brown body with a slight reddish hint and thin tan head. Aroma is semi-sour with oak, cherry, earthy, dirty, some darker sugars. Flavor is really earthy cherry with a slight sourness, sweet red fruit, very nice. Medium to light body and nicely carbonated. Nice all around but missing something everywhere at the same time.

Pours dark amber with floaties and a fully receding light tan head. Aroma of oak, sour oak, and cherry. Tastes of oak, cherry, lightly sour, and leathery. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied, dry, with lively carbonation.

375ml from Once Upon a Vine, Richmond. Glad I finally got to try this, what with Liefmans apparently going under. It’s a very fine sour brown. It pours thick and with a lively carbonation, but man I think this is the highest concentration of yeast floaties I’ve ever seen! Doesn’t bother me much. A substantial malty brown, that’s high quality, is the foundation of this beer. But it’s very pleasantly tart, with traces of the barrel there, and a nice dry finish. Really good stuff. Hope I can snag another bottle.

Bottle picked up at Londis, Goring, Oxon, had this 27-01-08 Poured conker brown with quite a bit of yeast in suspension the head was off-white. The aroma was sweet molassess and some sourness. Tasted great sourness again with an underlying dark brown unrefined sugary sweetness, there was an oakiness to this as well and very fruity. Great beer

Bottle at 3-smår rum Göteborg: Dark red colour,creamy head. Aroma of citrus,coffee,complex aromatic beer this one. Flavor is almost the same but has some dark choclate in it too. Sour yes, but nice enyway.Medium fruity/winy finish.