Crystalstick Experimental #4 Type Geuze

Experimental #4 Type Geuze

 

Crystalstick in Halle, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Farmhouse - Sour Saison Special Out of Production
Score
6.27
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 1
Blend of a beer fermented with pitched brett, and a saison
 

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5/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 5 Overall 5
first of all, gotta get this of my chest, as a true lambic / geuze enthousiast. I went to ask what this beer is exactly. The brewer told me that it's a blend of a 'wild' beer to which he pitched brettanomyces, and a saison. It does not consist of young and old beer either. Basically, there's no lambic in here whatsoever, ergo the name geuze can't ( and shouldn't ) be used here. Upon the question why the hell he did use it , since there is virtually nothing this beer has in common with an actual geuze, his reply was that he's brewery is very close to Boon brewery, which is - in his words - the biggest geuze-brewery (!) in Belgium (!) . When can we finally decide that education is a must, before becoming a brewer? True, i might have been a bit prejudgemental about this beer, upon receiving this kind of answers, but anyway… The beer pours clear blonde, with a small ring of foam. Smell is very weak, doesn't show anything, really. Taste is full, sharp, some spicyness by the saision yeast phenols. Very, very mild tartness. Even it taste, it lacks any resemblance. 3/5 for the beer as it is, since I like to score how much I personally enjoy it, but scoring this 2.5 for it's idiotic name. And all those who are pro rating in style, as a geuze, this would get 0.5/5 ( unless i can go lower )
Tried on 07 Oct 2019 at 10:37