Sour barn and leather aroma. Cloudy yellow, lowish head. cobwebbed cheese, good healthty sourness. Medium body - superdry. 1995 Bottle: 8-4-9-4-18 Grainy sour. Cloudy orange-yellow. Amazingly smooth. Bready, fruity, citric. Good chewyness.

Orgininal blend, bottled Clear, orange body. No head at all. Cognac and port-aromas, lightly hoppy (citrus) too. Smells very old. :) Moderately acidic, lightly sweet initial flavour. Lightly sweet, lightly acidic finish. Finish lasts averagily long. Light to medium bodied.

(Bottle 75 cl) Orangey golden and hazy, the head is pretty much absent. Tart indeed and tarter than the original Belle-Vue but far from the taste bud killers in classical gueuzes. This is just dry and quenching. 180494

[Vintage 1994 - sampled 2004] A hazy orange beer with no head. The aroma is lovely sour with notes of grapefruit. The flavor is of sour grapefruit and wood - the sourness draws out the mouthwater and burns slightly in the throat.

(This is still the real one - from Schepdaal/St. Gertrudis - but a filtered, sweet, version very much like the one these days coming from Zuun/St. Jans Molenbeek - Belle-Vue) Hardboard amber - hazy; thin white head, even some lace. Very earthy nose, wood, quite a bit of sulphur, of course Brett - also a light brown candi sugar streak. Sweetish taste, woody and candi superposed on a nearly immediate adstringent sourness with wood, sulphur and velpon retronasal, figthing with farmyard and phenolic flavours. Light to medium, some slickness. Sweetened, rough-filtered but underneath the real beast lurks. Wish it would come out and bite some more.