Liefmans Goudenband

Brewed by Liefmans (Moortgat)
Style: Sour Ale
Oudenaarde, Belgium

Corked and caged bottle. Tan medium sized fizzy head that was mostly lasting with a lot of floaties, virtually no lacing, visible carbonation, and a brown hue. Sweet, fruity, alcohol, sour, tart, and some maltiness for the aroma. Flavor was sweet, sour, somewhat tart, fruity, and somewhat vinuous. Dry finish. Tingly, dry mouthfeel. Medium body. Just too sweet and sour tasting for my liking. A complex brew IMO. Decent for the style though.

Appearance: mahogany color with reddish tones, beautiful. Medium head, beige color, medium persistency. Aroma: very sour-fruity of plums, berries, pears, green apples and green grape; sweet-fruity of figs. Liquory like champagne. Lactic sourness, like natural yogurt. Spicy tones, like tea, clove, damp wood and mustard. Flavor: highly acid like natural yogurt; sour-fruity of lemon, orange, pears, plums, green apples and chardonnay grapes. Liquory, similar to chardonnay wine and champagne. Intensive acid start; very sweet finish without hoppy; tobacco, wood, clove, metallic and cork aftertaste. The sourness and sweetness hide the alcoholic degree. Palate: medium body, oily texture. Medium carbonation. Relatively complex, underline the Rodenbach.

Red-brown beer with a small white head. The beer has a lot of raisin and plum in the taste. A good balance between the sweet and the sour. It has a medium/full body, which is unmoral for the beer, and it has some sediment in the bottle - that’s more normal for Goudenband.

Tons of sediment which I hate. Pretty darn drinkable. Not to sour. Good but won’t drink again. Just not my thing. Still though I can appreciate that this is good.

When I untwisted the metal... the cork popped out... Does this mean that the beer is rotten? Either way I was not into the taste. Tastes very sour and does not have much character. Once again this may be rotten because this is my first flemish sour ale. I will have to revist this type.

My first venture into Flemish Browns. Definitely a different beer. malty, and tart, I could drink these back to back to back. No sourness though, was looking foward to it.

I had this while I was in the Netherlands, and what a great beer it is. Aroma was sweet and sour, good mix. Flavor was also a little bitter sweet and tangy with light carbonation. An exceptional brew!

Sampled during the First Annual Stone Sour Fest. Dark reddish brown with a smallish head. Aromas of molassas and raisins. Sweet cherry and other sweet aromas too. Flavors were rather sweet as well with notes of horseblanket. Missed the sour in this sour ale. Or maybe it just blended so well. Either way, it was very good.