Liefmans Goudenband

First rating
(37.5 cl bottle at "Tre Små Rum", Göteborg)
Cork dated 2006.
Clear dark brown color, tan head. Acidic, sweet, sour cherry taste, alcohol aftertaste. Spritzy mouthfeel. Low bitterness.
7/4/7/3/14=3.5

Second rating
(37.5 cl bottle at Café 3 Små Rum, Göteborg)
On March 1, 2008
Cork dated 2006
Dark brown color, tan head. Acidic scent, almost like a lambic. Also cherries a dn rather sweet and spritzy. Smooth, acidic, cherry taste. Very moussy mouthfeel. Low bitterness. Tasrt acidic aftertaste.
8/4/8/3/16=3.9

Tasted 2007-11-03. Bottle from 2006, 37,5 cl. Pour hazy chestnut brown with off-white head. Aroma of prunes, cellar, wild fermenting and cookies. Ditto flavour. Very tasty IMO. Nice balance between the sourness and the more sweet malt flavours. Great beer!

Sampled @ GDBTF. Pours a reddish brown with healthy capping head. Wild sourness and musty, sour oak cherries, then in comes the nice malt sweetness that balances out the more unusual flavor notes. Yum, if you’re into this sort of thing.

Pours cloudy, with chunks, dark brown, with a clotty sort of top. Scary! Aroma is sweet and malty. Rather akin to dark fruits. Flavor is very much like prunes, dried cherries. with a little sourness and a strong, sweet body. Moderate palate. Very excellent.

375ml bottle-pours a thin light tan head and cloudy brown color. Aroma is medium/dark fruit-berries, some sourness, medium malt-caramel, oak (barrel?), a lot going on and nice. Taste is lots of fruit-berries, secondary wood/earthy medium malt-cardboard/caramel/sugar, metallic on aftertaste. Soft carbonation. Thanks jwc215 for sharing.

Bottle. Dark murky brown with a medium ring of bubbles. Nose-malt vinegar, cherries, light cider vinegar. Taste-sweet cherry syrup, “thick” tasting, very very light funk, woody on the back end, some unsalted soy, really the sweetness dominates, there is a flavor here that I can’t place but it is a sp[icy fruitiness that is very good. Maybe a product of the malts, I don’t know, but it’s good. Brown sugar, berries. The sum is much better than the parts. Loose a point on overall for the obnoxious sweetness.

Taster at the fall beer tasting at the Flying Saucer in Fort Worth. Hardly any head. Brownish in color, cloudy sort of muddy look. Sweet smell is fruity and the flavor is complex, slighlty sour but pleasing.

375ml bottle. 2000. Aroma: Light maltiness with some light oxidation. Cherries and light vinegar, raisins, cinnamon, and yeast. Appearance: Dark reddish brown in color and very hazy. No carbonation. Flavor: Bready maltiness with some oxidation notes (cardboard and sherry). Yeast, spice, cherries and raisins. Sourness still has some nice pucker to it. Palate: Medium bodied. No carbonation. Overall: I picked this bottle up awhile ago and was saving it. I was hoping it had held up well, but it hasn’t. Oxidation was nice at first, but built up over time and made this unfinishable.