The Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze

Duck Duck Gooze

 

The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular
Score
8.10
ABV: 7.0% IBU: - Ticks: 133
As with all sour ales, the initial sip wakes up your dull senses. There is an elevated level of Acetic Acids working their magic in this beer. The first sip assaults the palate in an enamel stripping bottom of the pH chain sort of way. In Belgian brewing there are fantastic wild ales brewed with naturally occurring yeast. These beers develop over time and are ready on their own terms.

Duck Duck Gooze is our homage to these effervescent and wonderfully complex sparkling beers.A blend of young and old barrel aged beers, this has been one of our most sought after beers year after year since it’s original release in 2009. Alas, it is released in very small quantities only once every three years, so it’s extremely difficult to come by beyond the day we release it. It does, however, turn up on our Tasting Room’s Vintage List from time to time, so don’t despair.
 

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10/10
Old bottle, hand-bottled and given to my friend Angelo. Masterpiece. Best American sour period.
Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2016 at 01:25

8.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle (batch 2 - 2013) @ joes goes whale hunting. Hazy peach colour with a small white head. Dusty, sourish, fruity. Very nice but hard to describe. Tastes fruity, fresh, sour, dusty, peach, green apple. Medium body, soft carbo.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2016 at 10:08

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle from Toby, 2013 vintage. As usual when the Boise crew gets together, sours dominate, but they’re always top notch. Here’s yet another great example, light bodied, tart, fruity and funky. Tasty stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2015 at 10:53

10/10
Tried on 13 Jul 2015 at 16:48

8.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle at Grand Tasting, RBSCSG 2015 2015-07-11 Göteborg Vintage 2013 AR: vineager, barn yard AP: golden hazy, wee white deminshing head F: vineager, white grapes, tart, lemon flesh
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2015 at 04:56

7/10
Acetic
Tried on 11 Jul 2015 at 18:27

9.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 10 Overall 9.5
5400th rating. Batch 1 bottle thanks to Tim. Pours a cloudy yellow with medium frothy white head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is nice funk, oak, cheese, lemon, guava, pineapple. Thin mouth, very tart, funk, guava, lemon, wood, more sour as it warms, this beer is amazing!
Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2015 at 15:44

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle - Funky sweaty feet and lemon notes. Cloudy gold with a rich white head. Bright citrus and salty tart finish.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2015 at 13:23

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Sample during RBSG. From notes. Tart orange citrus and caramel malt backbone. Funky.
Tried on 12 Dec 2014 at 23:31

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
Bottle. Hazy orange liquid with small to medium white head. Aroma of lemon, barnyard, mineral, apple skin, light bread, light lacto and light wood. Taste is dry and medium to high sour with notes of lemon, apple, mineral, tropical fruit, apple skin, barnyard and light funk. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Really good stuff. Balanced for an American sour. Close to Belgian gueuze.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2014 at 12:06