From 37.5 cL bottle, thanks to Grovlam. Pours slight hazy orange with a light orange and diminished head. Fruity (apple and raisin) and acidic aroma. Starts very sweet fruity, gives away a mild fruity note and a mild brett acidity. Dominantly sweet in a thick caramel/cane sugar way. Unusual but very nice.

Bottle @ Akkurat. Pours an orange color with white head. Sweet malty fruity aroma. Sweet malty fruity and slightly sour tart flavor. Has a fruity malty finish.

Under the name of Cuvée Spéciale, the very last to come really from the Eylenbosch brewery Slightly hazy, pale orange-amber, small white head leaving rings of lace. Slightly caramelsyrup and a hint of horseblanket aroma; pineapple. Dry-licorice without sweetness, horseblanket/leather flavour. Brown sugar and true lambic underneath. A bit syrupy texture, but with some acidburn. Not the real stuff. Too sweet, too faro-like for me - by far.

Bottled vintage 1988, courtesy of joergen. Red color, small white head. Madeira nose, a bit oxidated. Light, fruity, Madeira-wine notes. Bit off-date already, but drinkable.

(Bottle 25 cl) Original version from "Br. Eylenbosch" in Schepdaal at 4,3% ABV. Amber coloured, bubbly head (leaves the bottle by itself as soon as you get the cap off) but then the beer turns rather flat. Some tart - but far from extreme - vinegary notes nicely matched by a candied sweetness. 291196

1991 bottle 375mL shared with Bucknaked on 5/1/2005.
Pours a caramelized sugar colored orange-amber (caramel) with some bright golden-copper tinges. Sediment at the bottom is surprisingly (to me) very light (in quantity). This poured with a big yellow-flecked white head which rapidly dissipates to a ring and then nothing. But it’s absolutely marvelous to see it pour a head at 14 years of age. Fine bubbles still rise to the surface in the liquid. Aroma of dry, dusty yeast, sawdust like, perhaps, with low, but still discernable barnyard qualities, wet hay, bits of damp barniness (that’s a new word). But up front in the aroma we have bits of aceteldahyde or however you spell it, with lots of cideriness, quite a smooth, sweet sherry oxidation and a caramelly sweetness. The flavor approximates the aroma quite nicely, though there is even less funk in the flavor. Caramelized sugar or candi sugar (or whatever is giving that big sweetness and color) roams a bit too freely in the flavor and this is sweeter than I would prefer a gueuze to be, but the body has held up remarkably well, no wateriness, not thin, just a bit of tingly carbonation and a smooth, soft mouthfeel. Bit of sawdust again on the finish, cider vinegar, little bit of sweet and sour sauce and then just fade to sugar. Incredibly well-preserved. This is the kind of oxidation that I live for (just wish the beer wasnt so sweet). This must have been brutally sweet when fresh, though. Thank you so much Jacob, that was truly generous of you to send this!! I think Ungstrup’s comment, "for a gueuze not so good, for a beer OK" is spot on.

[The original Eylenbosch Gueze - vintage 1988 - sampled March 2004] The aroma is both sweet and sour with notes of wood. The color is a hazy amber and it has a fine head. The flavor is both sweet and sour with notes of candy sugar - like a Faro. The notes of sugar makes it a little weird - I wonder if it is the 16 years in the bottle that has done this? For a gueze this is not that good - but as a beer it is OK.