Deschutes Brewery The Ages

The Ages

 

Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular
Score
7.53
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 14 Ticks: 25
Gueze-inspired, multi-year blending shapes a wild brew brimming with fruity, spicy esters and savory, tangy pear and white pepper flavors.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
Waxed bottle from Corti Bros. Pours hazy/translucent gold with a white head. Gueze aroma. Lightly sour fruits. Med body or so. Flavor is slightly funky gueuze and the fruits are hard to parse. Pear I can get. It also is spicy/peppery. A rather different sort of drink, but all these sour/wilds are rather different to me. This one is very approachable. All the funk/spice moderates to a lightly sour/tart fruit drink, which clearly is still like a gueze. Great stuff from Deschutes.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Jun 2018 at 00:17

8.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 9
16.9 oz waxed bottle. Aroma is lacto, apple cider vinegar, wood, vanilla, strawberry. Pours hazy golden with a two finger white head with decent retention. Taste is sour (7/10) with flavors of the barrel, lacto, floral notes, peppery, berry. Very tasty and complex. Seems a little less full-bodied than it should be, but that's a minor complaint. Deschutes is stepping up their sour game for sure. Every sour I've had from this brewery previously has been overly woody and harsh. This is the first one that I would put up against a real gueuze with no qualms at all.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2018 at 06:40

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at share. Medium golden, small ring of head. Aroma is grapes, barrels, musty. Taste is mildly tart, more fruit notes, bitter at finish, dry.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2018 at 01:41

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Toby. Pours out crisp golden topped with a white head. Nose is dust sweet notes wood and bugs. Taste is more of the nice sweet notes funky barnyard dust.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Jun 2018 at 00:38

7.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Poured from a bottle at Savor: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience 2018. Poured a fizzy notes, diminishing head, mostly clear. Aroma was light fruity notes, some light herbal, floral notes. Barnyard, funky tartness. Mild fruity tartness. Smooth.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Jun 2018 at 06:06