Gueuze (Classic/Organic/Bio)
Brasserie Cantillon in Anderlecht, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
7.84
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Gueuze is the ultimate result of a complex blend of lambics of different ages and with different tastes kept in oak barrels. The brewer’s main task involves tasting and he or she will have to try around a dozen lambics from different barrels, finally selecting five or six. It is by this method that gueuze 100% lambic, presenting the typical characteristics of Cantillon Brewery’s beers, is produced. Each blended batch yields a slightly different gueuze because the natural elements at the heart of the beer make it impossible to produce a standardised product.
Bottles are positioned horizontally in a cellar and left to rest for an average of one year, this being the time required for the conversion of the sugars into carbon dioxide (secondary fermentation in the bottle). Saturation of the liquid takes place slowly and naturally, and when the lambic turns into a foaming beer it is called gueuze.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Clear rose/golden pour with a small white head. Aromas of apples, berries, vinegar, some grapes. Flavour is vinegar, (tart) apples, grain, a hint of vanilla. Quite nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle at Cantillon. Pours murky gold with a white head. Tons of musty old wood, leather, mildew on the nose. Flavour is fairly tart and acidic, still with lots of musty, mildewy old upholstery. Great depth of old funk here.
Classic, mooi zacht geworden,
Hanoi (1973) reviewed Gueuze (2024) from Brasserie Cantillon 7 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle. My first in more than decade I was stunned to find. I hope this heralds more availability again. Nose is rich damp wheat, brett, funk, cherry pie, touch of green apple cutting through, a touch of caramel sweetness. Complex and balanced notes. As it breaths the funk and woody, leafy notes come out. There is so much depth.
Taste is brett, pastry leading to damp wheat, and a much more intense puckering sourness than in my memory. Bone dry sour vinious, vinegar finish. A second taste brings out green apple, cheese. It's so refreshing and complex, a phenomenally balanced beer.
It says drink within 20 years, I managed 1 day with it in the house. I've no idea how you can keep this in the cellar without wolfing it down. Absence may have made the heart go fonder, but it's stunning.
Tart, sweetish and slightly sourish with some earthiness and funky farmyardy notes. Okay, a lot more aggressive compared to LPG
Dry, sour and tart, woody. Quite vinous, a bit funky, some dry hay and citrus. Smooth, very nice.
( had many times over my beer connoisseur/functional alcoholic career. Including at the Cantillon brewery )..
one of the world's great beers : a testament to sour beer architecture..
uncompromisingly bretty , funky , horse blanketed- giving all kinds of complexity .so , so very much tart and rich refreshment ..( I love the lemony/ lactic tartness - in unity with dryest beer finish ever ..
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Classic Gueuze (2006) from Brasserie Cantillon 8 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
2006 bottle. Delicious as always, nice to know some things don’t get worse over the years. Reserved sourness, but still nice and tart. Lots of lacto and plenty of fresh brett. Sulphur, rubber, it’s all here. Great texture, not as loose as the 2004 and 2005.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Classic Gueuze (2005) from Brasserie Cantillon 8 months ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
Draught at Redbones October 2005. Brett is more pungent/apparent. Funk and mold and cheese in the aroma of course. Not nearly as sour/acidic in flavor. Much easier drinking. But during the ballgame, I aint complainin. Good lacing, seems cleaner in flavor. Brett really wipes the palate clean after each sip. Reminds me more of drie fonteinen.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 10
2004 bottle Incredibly funky, barny aroma with light sulphur and tons of tartness. Flavor is rustic, sour, tart, woody and dry. I think the flavor and aroma are as good or better than any vintage, but the mouthfeel seems a little bit looser than the 2003. No need to make any quick judgements though, time will be a better judge.