Liefmans Goudenband

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

Medium brown with a tiny white head. Aroma is musty, with some cider and alcohol notes. Flavor is of apples, vinegar with a nice sour feel in the middle. Finishes up dry and hoppy with some of the sourness lingering. Quite good.

Aromas of malt, candi sugar and faint must. Brown color with a tan head that fades fast. Flavor is malt and fruit up front, with yeast and spice in the tail.

Bottle from 2005. Expiration date June 2015. Dark caramel/ garnet color with no head but somewhat decent carbonation. Burnt brown sugar, plums, leather, cherries, grapes and some vinegar in the aroma. Warming cherry notes along with some more dark fruits and a bit of vinegar. Very dry finish. No acidity.

Paper wrapped corked and caged 375 mL bottle. The corks sure are weird. Really short depth in the bottle. Thanks HogTownHarry for this 2005 vintage. The beer pours to a nice garnet colored body with a lasting tall beige head. The aroma is sour woodsy cherry yogurt with cinnamon. The flavor is also a sour cherry yogurt. It also has notes of a tawny port wine in both the aroma and the flavor. The flavor has a huge oaken profile. Very easy to drink, not exactly "sour" by any means, unfortunately. The palate is smooth, yogurty. I wouldn’t exactly call it a Flemish Sour, but there really isn’t another category for it. A good and distinct beer, nonetheless.

Light brown colour. Sour aroma, acid, berries. Aroma has something gueuzish: sour vinegar, acid, ... Sweet flavour, mixed with coriander, spices and plums

I bought this because I’ve been digging sours and I hear liefmans won’t be around America much longer. The cork had 2006 on it so I guess this has been sitting awhile. Nice, dark brown color with aromas of alcohol and big malts. A little bit of dark funk going on in the smell as well as vinegar. The aroma really improves as the beer warms to room temp (as most do). Whoa, the taste is funky, sour, strong, cereal, heavy cereal maltiness, vinegar again and glue, sour apples, tart in the back. This is sour in a puckery way but much different than the La Roja I had just prior. This is quite potent and much more of a sipper. Overall not my favorite but I’m not that literate when it comes to oud bruins. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 04-29-2008 03:54:51

Dark brown in color with particulate. Sweet and slightly sour berry taste with a sour finish. What a wonderful taste. A favorite...wow!

Chocolately brown pour and small white head. Smells very sour and tart. Cherries, alcohol. Malty, oaky, earthy, woody-cherry flavors and nice sour, sweet finish. I do like this beer.