Mixed Emotions

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, citrus and barnyard. Flavor is medium sweet and moderate acidic. Dry and moderate acidic finish. 280815

Etwas agressiver säuerlicher Beginn, jung. Deutlich bitter, ab dem Mittelteil abnehmend, noch aber auf ein angenehmes Level. Zum Ende auch süßlich, süffig, gelungen - könnte aber noch etwas liegen. 7/9/11/9/8/9

Bottle. Frothy White good mostly deminishing head. Yellow colour. Powerfull wonderfull sour aroma. Powerfull sour flavor. Some mold. Moderate bitter sour finish. Creamy palate.

Sampled @ Danish Summer Gathering 2015 Trübes goldene Farbe, geringe weiße Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr sauer, Trauben, Kraut. Geschmack säuerlich malzig, Trauben, hefig, Kraut, leicht holzig, ok!

Sampled at 8th Danish Ratebeer Gathering, Ulfborg 2015. Bottle. Lightly hazy yellow golden color, virtually no head. Smell and taste sourness, sour fruits, lightly unripe red fruit. Suitable body and carbonation. Not bad at all.

bottle shared courtesy of Allesmetkaas. Funky aroma. Small white head. Hazy golden pour. Sour aftertaste

50cl swing top bottle courtesy of and shared with 77ships, a definite move from the previous Grolsch bottle. I’m still not seeing the point of these Dutch breweries doing blends, let alone a collaboration, of lambics and putting these in swing-top bottles - I mean how do you even call it a gueuze? Good but no way this is a gueuze, and a good thing, for them, that this can even be rated. De couleur dorée trouble tirant sur un léger orangé, le col est léger blanc finement pétillant mais dont la ténacité est limitée. Arôme offre un bouquet typique de gueuze, bouquet fruité modéré avec un petit côté ananas voire abricot. Nez rustique, cuire. Palais est assez sec et herbacé, fruité avec un fini cuire, légèrement aigrelet - funk. Des notes agréables d’agrumes font une brève apparition pour un profil restant assez bien effervescent. C’est ok dans l’ensemble, mais comme dit plus bas, ce n’est pas parce que on mélange du lambic que l’on peut qualifier le tout de produit d’exception.

Blend of Belgian lambics in order to achieve a geuze, apparently made only very limitedly. Courtesy of 77ships. Very thin, loose, off-white, immediately dissolving head, colour a misty peach blonde, like any geuze, but with insufficient sparkling for the style. Soft but full lambic nose, sour yoghurt, old sherry, tons of fruity esters (starfruit, gooseberry, passionfruit), horseblanket, sweat, wood, lemon juice, hay... Puckering lemon acidity at first, very fruity and estery, softer lactic tartness as expected, wheat, some wood in the finish but softer than expected, with the lemon sourness drying the mouth; estery fruitiness lingers, with low ’old hop’ bitterness. Refreshing as any good lambic blend, but it noticeably lacks expertise and maturity: it is not because you put different real lambics together, that a good geuze automatically comes out of it. This one, specifically, lacks saturation to give it the spritzy, champagne-like feel a good geuze should have and I think the choice of lambics could have been better as well to give it more profundity and bitterness. I also wonder why they used this type of bottle instead of a classic geuze bottle. Still, since this is made with only ’true’ lambic and I love traditional lambic no matter what, I did enjoy this a lot, after all.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Rooie Dop / Frontaal Mixed Emotions (by Rooie Dop):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

25/VII/15 - 50cl swing top bottle @ Trillium tasting, home - BB: n/a, bottled: 2014 (2015-987) Thanks to 77ships for sharing the bottle!

Not sure what to make of it. Dutchies blending and bottling lambics now... ? Maybe we should stick to only allow blends that were bottled at a gueuzerie or a brewery that explicitly was allowed to blend lambic by the lambic brewery? This just seems like ripping off from the work of others. Anyway, the rating....
Clear orange beer, small irregular white head, unstable, dissipates immediately. Aroma: very nice, fruity, lemony, brett, good funk. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very sourish start, lemony, some vinegar, funky. Aftertaste: bitter, quite some tannins, wood notes, bit of white wine vinegar.