Moriau Gueuze

Brewed by Brouwerij F. Boon
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Lembeek, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

(37.5cl bottle best by 3-3-2029 thanks to bu11zeye) cloudy yellow with a long lasting head. Nose of charred wood, very funky, fungi, and wet barrel. Taste of lemon, nicely tart, wet wood, quite funky, tart tangerines, floral, brett, and a smooth well carbonated body. The tart linger on the palate is excellent!

(375ml bottle, BB 03.03.2029) Pours a lightly hazy yellow body with small white head. Aroma of grapefruit, mustiness, white grapes, horseblanket, earth, and grass. Flavor of grapefruit, light yogurt, and lemon.

Big thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this rare sour. Best by 3/3/29. The beer pours a hazy yellow color with a white head. The aroma is awesome. I get notes of brett funk, lemons, oak and some floral qualities. The flavor is pretty funky with some brett notes, tart lemons, oak, flowers and some lactic sourness that I don’t get in a lot of other gueuzes. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation. Very glad I got to try this beer.

Two 375ml bottle from a restaurant in Belgium.
Appearance : Clear yellow with big fluffy and foamy white head. Not much lacing.
Aroma : Funky and acidic with slight notes of apples. Quite barnyard.
Taste : Acidic and yeasty. Woody with notes of honey. Some mineral notes borderline blood.
Overall : This was not such a good experience. At the beginning, the beer was rather good but half into the glass, it started to be very metallic with strong notes of blood. I immediately returned the bottle and asked for a new one. Sadly, the new one tasted exactly the same. Of course the second bottle came from the same batch so I guess it’s a batch problem. Even without the blood thing, I could tell that it was not as clean as some of the better examples. My girlfriend had a 3 Fonteinen Oude Gueuze that I could use to compare and both nose and taste were far behind it. Let’s say that I forget about the blood notes, it was not a bad gueuze. Just not very clean.

Big thanks to Jeremy for sharing this one! A-pours a very light golden orange with a thin fluffy and bubbly white head. S-the nose is dusty and dry, very light earthy notes, a little grassy with notes of sour lemon towards the back. T-the taste is much like the nose, dusty and papery, light earthiness with grass and hay, there is a touch of sweetness with some subtle peach and light lemon, very acidic with a light touch of sour to it. M-medium to light body with lots of carbonation burning and prickling the back of the throat with a dry finish. D-seems a slightly oxidized and the flavor profile doesn’t seem all there. the funk was present but the balance was lacking and it was so dry and hay like.

0.375 l bottle at Tuulensuu, Tampere. Hazy yellow color. Hazy golden color. Dry acidic, lemony and grapefruity with sulfur and herbal-bitter grapefruit pith. Enjoyable grapefruity dryness. Good gueuze, if typical.

Taste thanks to Jeremy!
Hazy tan-amber, white foam head and heavy lacing. Lightly sweet yet farmy, some lemons, grass, hay, and wheat. Acrid lemon flavor, iron, stale wheat, and light grape flavors. Mediocre profile, a bit too sweet and even vegetal, then throw in the over-acetic quality. Meh

UPDATED: JAN 13, 2012 2009 vintage (375ml) - opened June 2010.

A: Clear golden body. Large bubbly head. Quickly receded after one swirl of the glass. Only the faintest of lacing.

S: Lemon, grass and a healthy dose of bretty must. Fairly straightforward, but inviting nonetheless.

T: The brett from the nose really trails off leaving only a slightly tart and funky gueuze. The lemon-citric acidity is still there. Just a bit cleaner that I’d like (and was expecting from the nose).

M: Light to medium bodied. Effervescent carbonation throughout. Light tartness in the finish.

O: Easy drinking and fairly refreshing. Not as complex as the best representatives of the style, but by no means would I hesitate to try again.