Geuze II
Brouwerij Vandenbroek in Midwolde, Groningen, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.48
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8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Toweringly huge, fine, dense, light yellowish and very stable head over nearly clear orange-golden beer. End of bottle yeast. Lemon and horseblanket dominating the nose, finely spicy, perfumed-soapy. Quite lactic-sour, citrus and again delicately spicy flavour. Again the ’soapy’ touch; wood quite obvious, hint at tannines, lots of lemon. Very tart, superattenuated, very highly carbonated. Convincing? Absolutely. Delicious? Too. As the Belgian gueuzes? Eh - not quite. It appears as a textbook outlining of ’gueuze’, a theoretical drawing, and misses individuality, a marked stamp of personal character. Mind you, this is something that might take more time. In the mean time, we have an excellent sour beer, and somebody might go to the drawing board to imagine a label with some info? What I’m wondering about too is the strange overproduction of foam - very strange for a lambic-based beer. Many thanks, Joes!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2015
at 14:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at Borefts beer fest day 2 27/09/2014. Bodegraven. Many thanks to whomever shared this. Aroma is really nice brett funk, sour, sharp, funmk horse. Clouded orange / yellow coloured por with a lasting halo of white head. Flavour is sharp acid, lacto, horseblancket, tart apple, little berry fruit. Palate is crisp , sharp, little clean acid, highish carbonation. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2015
at 16:35
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml. @ 6th Borefts Beer Festival 2014. [ As Toon van den Broek Geuze II ].[ Courtesy of bierkoning ]. Clear medium orange yellow color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is light malty, pale malt, moderate horse blanket, barnyard, leather, fruity - white wine, light apple. Flavour is moderate to light light heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, barnyard, leather, grape, citrus. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140927]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2014
at 00:29
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
27th September 2014
Borefts VI. Day 2. Bottle thanks to Edo. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is airy with mild fine carbonation. Light but typical geueze sourness, wet wood and slightly acidic lemon. Light finish. For me it’s pretty mellow and drinkable.
Borefts VI. Day 2. Bottle thanks to Edo. Hazy gold beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is airy with mild fine carbonation. Light but typical geueze sourness, wet wood and slightly acidic lemon. Light finish. For me it’s pretty mellow and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2014
at 12:05
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Acquired in a trade with 77Ships and we opened this in Belgium so others can rate it as well. This is a new Gueuze from a place in Netherlands. It is rateable but there was no official label yet.
A - HUGE gusher. we could have lost half the bottle if we weren’t careful. . very bubbly huge bubbles head. cloudy beer with a bright orange appearance Looks like every other young Gueuze blend.
S - The nose is nice. Lots of lemon, some banana, grape skins and white wine notes. It smells really good.
T - The taste is okay. It’s quite sweet, has a copper penny metallic note. Oily without much of a body but maybe it just needs more time in the bottle to balance out? Sweet lemon,lime finish with tart acidity like from a kiwi w/ skin.
M - Thin mouth feel and not bursting with carbonation.
O - It’s a nice Gueuze but I’d wait a few years if you have a bottle. Might need more time. Open one now, cellar the other for 2 years.
A - HUGE gusher. we could have lost half the bottle if we weren’t careful. . very bubbly huge bubbles head. cloudy beer with a bright orange appearance Looks like every other young Gueuze blend.
S - The nose is nice. Lots of lemon, some banana, grape skins and white wine notes. It smells really good.
T - The taste is okay. It’s quite sweet, has a copper penny metallic note. Oily without much of a body but maybe it just needs more time in the bottle to balance out? Sweet lemon,lime finish with tart acidity like from a kiwi w/ skin.
M - Thin mouth feel and not bursting with carbonation.
O - It’s a nice Gueuze but I’d wait a few years if you have a bottle. Might need more time. Open one now, cellar the other for 2 years.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2014
at 12:17
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Thanks to AdamJackson! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ Sanne’s birthday tasting. Extremely big gusher, total fountain. Bottled on 04/2014. Hazy orange. Huge zesty funk, reminiscent of actual lambiek, big zest, fizzy lemon, light acidic, tad sugar; Taste carries more residual sweetness than I’m used from geuze, sugar, white bread with nice funk, lemon, lambiek funk in the back, light acidity. Body is fuller than usual, tad soft white bread-like. Very solid & great work.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2014
at 00:49
7/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Toon van den Broek Geuze II (by Brouwerij Vandenbroek):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
14/XI/14 - 75cl bottle @ Sanne's birthday tasting (Gent) - BB: n/a (2014-1325) Thanks to AdamJackson and 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Gusher alert!!!
Little hazy orange to beige beer, big aery off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: real brett and geuze smell, lemony, sourish, pretty complex! MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter touch, very sour, lemony, acidic, some wood tannins. Aftertaste: sourish, lemony, funky, brett, bitter touch, bit woody. Very well done, this Belgian is impressed! Well, except for the gushing part of course. :p
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 1/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
14/XI/14 - 75cl bottle @ Sanne's birthday tasting (Gent) - BB: n/a (2014-1325) Thanks to AdamJackson and 77ships for sharing the bottle!
Gusher alert!!!
Little hazy orange to beige beer, big aery off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: real brett and geuze smell, lemony, sourish, pretty complex! MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter touch, very sour, lemony, acidic, some wood tannins. Aftertaste: sourish, lemony, funky, brett, bitter touch, bit woody. Very well done, this Belgian is impressed! Well, except for the gushing part of course. :p
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2014
at 13:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle courtesy of kraddel, thank you sir! Hazy deep golden color, small white head. Nice aroma of dusty black pepper.Taste is funky, sour barnyard, doesn’t exactly come together, but tasty enough. Dry, tart finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2014
at 18:23
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at BBF 6, thanks to Edo, 27/09/14. Lightly hazed golden with off white spotting and edgework. Nose is damp wood, citric tarteness, pissy, lemon rind, straw. Taste comprises lemon peel, damp hay, musty wood, light acidics, apple core. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid gueuze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2014
at 12:21