St. Louis Gueuze

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

Serve in Flute, Tumbler

deep gold, firm white head. mild skunk aroma with stale metallic notes. bready, lemony, yeasty aroma. flavour starts sour like a real gueuze but finishes sickly sweet for the style. didn’t do it for me.

A pleasent geueze, which is nice for newcomers, so if you are for the Cantillons then forget this. But refreshing it is in the summerheat with notes of sweet sourgrapes. Sparkling darkorange hazy head with summernotes as flowers, herbal and sourfruits. For my wife!

Looks great in the glass, a lovely deep amber with firm creamy head. The nose is a fruity melon which is not all too sour. The flavour is mellow and not at all too sharp. Perhaps the purists may say this in not sour enough but to my taste this one is great. The best of its style I have had, I can just imagine this beer with seafood on a Summer's day.

Bottle. Very sweet, light smell of cherry, fruity, sugar, light acidic, smell of champagne. Small white fizzy head, dark orange normal clear body. Started moderate sweet. then it gets moderate acidic, the duration is average. Light to medium body, dry, lively carbonation. Really refreshing beer, nice one for the summer.

Orange body, small white head. Metallic aroma. The taste is very... plastic. The sugar and acesulfan-K doesn’t fit at all and makes the beer barely drinkable. You don’t mix rat poison with red wine, so why mix ace-k with beer? I feel sorry for investing in this bottle...

Not for Lambic purists...but for those unfamiliar with the genre, this is a good starter ale. Pours hazey- golden-red with a smallish cap that laces well Aroma od musty burlap, herbs and sweetness. Tastes like a well blended gueuze but the sweetness is a tad annoying..it has all the musty-earthy tones and herbal balance from long boil aged hops and the tart dryness of a lambic but the added sweetness seems phony. No reason to discount this as a serious lambic blend...but it is best suited to turning on your wife or friends to this style.

Cork bottle, new, chilled in goblet. Hint Orval-esque herbal bouquet amid tinges of musty oak. Funny ’hollow’ body and feel and taste to this gueuze, with an odd flavored sweetness. Crisp nose. Dusty oakish flavors I like in a gueuze but overall dilute product, this beer lacks good bones, really. For a generic Gueuze i really prefer Belle Vue.

Hazy amber pour. Small head to just a light haze of lace. Light tart nose. Taste is big flat tart with a bunch of leather and a bit of farmhouse funk. Nice white wine pucker puller. Light tart and vinegar.