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Liefmans Goudenband

Liefmans Goudenband - Sour Ale

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 Percentile 
96
overall
Brewed by Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Sour Ale

Oudenaarde, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
7133.75/5.03.74/5.08%71Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Infinitely complex in aroma and flavor with notes of maltiness and tartness throughout. An unsurpassed old brown with the richness and complexity of a vintage wine.
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 gnoff (3560), Göteborg, Sweden
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/516/20
Nov 6, 2007    Updated: Mar 2, 2008
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


 Brix (371), Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Nov 3, 2007  
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!


 ElGaucho56 (386), USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Oct 21, 2007  
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.


 Optigon (561), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/510/105/517/20
Oct 12, 2007  
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.


 jcwattsrugger (5223), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 10, 2007  
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.


 Lumpy (1802), Carrollton, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/103/515/20
Oct 9, 2007  
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.


 travita (1861), Frisco, Texas, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Oct 8, 2007  
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.


 RagallachMC (631), Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/512/20
Sep 30, 2007  
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.



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