A hazed golden geuze with no head. In aroma, beautiful mix of Brett, horse blanket, musty character, very nice. In mouth, beautiful geuze with smooth acidity, tart ground cherry, light lactic and Epsom salts, very nice. On tap at Clandestin.

‘Draught geuze’ as pioneered in our modern craft beer times by Tilquin apparently existed already in the early days of geuze, though it seems to have been a fairly marginal phenomenon and little is known about how exactly it differed from bottle geuze in those days; nowadays it is simply a blend of young and old lambic but kegged instead of bottled, and Boon has apparently borrowed the idea from Tilquin here, in a draught geuze so far rarely seen in Belgium (but exported to other countries already). At Billie’s Craft Beer Fest 2019. Remarkably thick, dense and fluffy, snow white head on a misty peach-hued, orangey ‘old gold’ robe with lively sparkling. Aroma of old dried lemon peel, dusty old wood, sawdust, sorrel leaves, grape skin, apple vinegar, unripe green plums, sourdough. Crisp, sour onset, lemony (though nowhere too acidic or vinegar-like), fizzy (Lambrusco-like) with well-developed lambic fruitiness of sour apples, green grapes and unripe stonefruit, supple wheat base, soaked in lactic tartness, fruity sourness and a pronounced, rustic ‘dustiness’, powdery and drying, with retronasal grass silage-like impressions and a noteworthy woodiness from (primarily) the old lambic in the tail, while the typical old hop bitterness usually seen in Boon remains very low (as does the chlorine aspect I typically associate with old Boon lambic). Very interesting, peculiar geuze – has about the same profile as bottled Oude Geuze Boon, but notably more supple and smooth and a tad less complex. Very highly drinkable though, I could drink gallons of it. More pubs in Belgium should have this on tap!