St. Louis Gueuze

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck
Style: Lambic - Gueuze
Ingelmunster, Belgium

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

Bottled. In my opinion this was a pale golden one, but who can tell in a dark cellar-pub...!? Kind of sourish-sweet aroma with notes of lemon. Earthy and somewhat acidic or artificial flavor with a dry finish. I think this was quite lame. Was this my third gueuze...?!

Clear orange color. I prefer a bit cloudy beers. Crispy, sour. Weak gueuze i guess.

Bottle (375 ml) at café Tre små rum, Göteborg, Sweden. Hazy golden, small white head. Fruity and cidery with some dusty and woody notes. Light in body, lively carbonation. A bit too sweet.

Bottle. hazy golden colour with a small white head. Aroma and taste of fruits, yeast and sugar. Too sweet for my taste.

UPDATED: APR 5, 2007 Best before 11/2004, 250mL capped bottle from Jacob Lovenlund, consumed on 8/5/06. So almost 3 years old, I think? That or 4 years old, I can’t imagine the brewery recommends keeping this pasteurised, filtered crap much longer than 1 year.
The appearance says Belgian ambree, as it’s quite ruddy-orange and too dark for a true gueuze (and this is obviously no specialty gueuze). Off-white head is large, foamy/fizzy and quickly recedes to partial cover and then ring, leaving little-to-no lacing behind. Fizzy, large bubbles rise languidly to the top, but can not bolster the head for long.
Heavily, heavily sugary in the nose. It pretty much smells like priming sugar, like corn sugar/syrup, was used to give this beer aroma. DMS is certainly rampant. Behind the vegetal nightmare, lies a sugary, caramel-like "maltiness". Wheat is lightly dry, nutty. No alcohol in the nose. No lambic either.
Flavor - sigh....it’s like the rest of its brothers; chapeau, mort subite, lindemans, belle-vue, sadly lacking of any lambic notes, sugary, corny, vegetal, metallic, watery, cloying. Just a horrid mess. The good news is that I’m almost through the gauntlet of these fake gueuzes.

Bottle, at Den Tatoverede Enke, Copenhagen. Strong fruity aroma with notes of oak, farmhouse, caramel and spices. Sourish flavour, some oak and spices. Not the best gueuze I’ve had.

Bottle from Asao. Aroma of sugary caramel, fruit, especially lemon, some yogurt, and e tiniest amount of funk. Very fruity in a sweet way. Deep gold with lace. Creamy, fruity, and sweet flavor. No funk. Lemon. Way too sweet. Neither sour nor bitter. Light body, though somewhat syrupy and soda-like carbonation. Not so good, really, but drinkable in small quantities.                                                                           

Bottle at Bazar, A’dam. Very sweet, tart cider taste. Very fruity, old apples perhaps? A bit of a dissapointment. But I’m not a Geuze guy.