Lindemans Gueuze Cuvée René

Brewed by Brouwerij Lindemans
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
St Pieters Leeuw-Vlezenbeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

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Hmm. for me this is like a red wine fanatic trying to assess a dry herbal white wine! But the quality is evident. Pretty hazy gold. I need it fairly cold to enjoy it, and there are nice layers of lemon sourness with some added cider-vinegar acetic qualities. The smell is pretty divine with apple, apple blossom, zesty lemon. The feel is a little sharp - I can feel it sour and acidic in my gut - but this is not a vinegary monster.

Úgy látom nekem még tovább kell érnem, ehhez a sörtípushoz, nem igazán sikerült átélnem a szellemiségét. Maradjunk egyelőre ennyiben.

Pours a murky orange with no head or lacing. The smell is very champagne like. The taste is quite sour up front and finishes dry like a brut champagne would. It seems like it would be perfect for New Years - just not sure about it being a beer. Certainly interesting and unique to my taste buds. Not bad!

Buonissima non ho niente altro da dire, se non che costa pure poco! Con poco più di 5 euro me la sono cavata!

On draught at De Cam Volkscafe. Pours a dark golden colour with a thick white head. Aroma of lemon, horse blanket, wet cardboard and light grassy hops. Similar flavours and just a little tart with a dry finish. Moderate carbonation, light CO2 prickle and a foamy mouth-feel.

Cloudy rusty golden color with a light head covering and no lace. The interesting thing here is the history of this style - sour dry white wine comes as close as I can to the flavor - the history of gueuze is quite extensive - see Michael Jackson’s Beer Companion for a good short overview. I suppose I could develop a taste for this as each sip was a little smoother than the one before, but, overall, it is a definite thirst quencher and not very tasty.

10 cl sample @ Gastropub Tuulensuu Gueuze blind tasting.
Originally rated on 20100306. (7+3+7+3+13)
Pours hazy orange color with no head. Aroma of yeast, grapes, fruits, grass. Flavor of grapes, mild strawberry notes, goose berries and yeast. Quite nice.
Placed #2 of 15.

Pours cloudy amber with almost no head. Smells of apples and dust. Taste is sour, earthy, Spanish olives and dust. More interesting than tasty

Tasted @ Gastropub Tuulensuu geuze blind tasting 2012. #4/15 overall rating

Pours murky orange with a medium foamy head. Aroma of strong earthy notes, cellar and some berries. Taste of strong fruity sourness, sticky tart fruits and dry ripe berries. Finish is dry and very sour with some fruity tartness. Slightly light bodied but still tasty and easy to drink.

A fantastic beer, and a fine example of a style which I hope will become more mainstream here in the New World. "Sour yet refreshing" sounds strange, but if you’ve had tamarind juice you know what it means. I’m going to buy more of this next time I see it.

355 mL bottle. Pours a cloudy cider color, a mammoth head of crinkling foam with lots of lacing. Definitely funky aroma, lots of yeast and wet leaves, apple, pear and lemon. Sour and dry, barely perceptible malt taste with a hint of cereal grain, more lemon and yeast, champagne like notes and apply tartness. Light bodied, lots of bubbles and a dry lemonade like finish. (Real lemonade of course.) Really the only lambic I’ve had, interesting to taste. Decidedly not what most North Americans think of when the word beer is mentioned.