3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
On tap @ La Trappe. Pours a slightly cloudy golden hue with a nice white head. Mellow apple aroma with a hint of hay. Sweetness is quickly subdued by a sour finish. Average for the style... Not recommended if you’re looking for a nice Geuze.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled, from Oud Arsenaal, Antwerpen. Deep gold, thin white head and moderate condition. Gentle funkiness in the nose, low fruitiness in the mouth with just a hint of acidity and low farmyard notes. Gently dry and bitter in the finish.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at the 1904 Beerhouse. Pour is a golden honey with a smallish white head. Aroma and flavor were light vinegar and tart Granny Smith apples. Unexciting but an easy beer to drink.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle. Golden brown with a small head. Aromas are sugar and light fruit with good acidicy. Flavours are initially sweet with brown sugar and some fruit. Some caramel with citrus. OK.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
The aroma is sour, like the aroma of a gueze should be. The color is nutbrown and it has a beige head. The flavor is very sweet with notes of caramel and hints of metal and sourness. This is definatly too sweet and too little sour for a queze.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Brought home from Belgium and aged for an additional year. Pretty weak for a lambic. Some barnyard and very light sourness, much more like a faro than a gueuze. Amber color and loads of sediment in large brown chunks. Some sugar and yeast.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
25cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Clear amber with very thin white head. Some lambic on the aroma. I thought that this was ok. Just a little on the sweet side. But the real lambic comes through. Fine and quite drinkable.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle brought back from Belgium. Rather sweet gueuze. But nowhere near as sweet as Lindemans, for instance, and without Lindeman’s raw, unrefined staleness. Reasonably bland and rather safe with only passing sourness and barely any dryness. I can’t help thinking that without the sourness & bone dry characteristics lambics just taste sickly and stale. It’s gueuze, but only in name.
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