Lindemans Gueuze

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

A sweet, sour apple note greets my nose as I pour this beer into my 25cl tulip glass. The head starts out a finger and a half thick, despite a reasonable pour and is a pale, off-white color. The beer is an amber, slightly copper tinged color that shows a lightly hazy, copper color when held up to the light. A deeper inspection of the nose yields a candy sweetness, that for some reason I wasn’t expecting from even a Lindemans product. Green apple candies really is an apt descriptor for the aroma as that is the most noticed part. There is a touch of lactic character if you really dig for it and perhaps a touch of dusty malt.

Quite sweet tasting, but has a bit of tartness to it and it does not seem to be quite as sweet as the standard fruit beers from Lindemans, though it is still quite sweet. This finishes with a touch of musty, damp earthiness, which, with the sweetness, is about all that ties this to traditional Lambic. This tastes mostly like green apple syrup (jolly rancher in liquid form). This has a viscousness and heft that in combination with the sweetness makes me thing of syrup.

In the end I can’t get past the candied apple character, it drowns out everything else and is overly sweet. This doesn’t taste horrible, it doesn’t have serious flavor flaws, it just is overly simplistic in its sweetness and not very good. This just isn’t my cup of tea.

What a tastey beer! Clear, translucent orange colour with a scattered crinkley white head. Aromas of fermented apples and gin. A very well carbonated mouthfeel with light, sweet refreshing flavors. Finishes clean and crisp.

yeasty haze pour with lots of great aroma nice head fruity tart aroma grapes citrus and fruity notes nice dry finish

Draught. Very low white head. Clear amber body. Apple, plum, lemon aroma. Relatively sweet plum caramel falvor with acidic notes. Low carbonation and a short aftertaste. For a gueuze this one is very sweet.

UPDATED: JUL 4, 2008 Aroma: wine; sweet,tart,dry. Taste: Mmm...dry, green apple. As soon as it is sweet, dryness comes in to wash the tongue. Yeast. I know some cider heads who might like this.

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12 oz. bottle. Pours an amber color, with a thick white head and some sediment. Flavor: Slightly sour, green apple, tart.

Bottle. Clear medium to dark amber yellow color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is light acidic sour sweet, moderate sugar, more like a faro. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light light acidic with a average duration, and a dry finish. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (070408)