Gueuze Caveau
Timmermans in Itterbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.54
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Sample quite aged). Orange-amber; head immediately gone. Yeast has fixed itself at the underside of the bottle (no V-pattern), but pieces have come loose and drift to the bottom of the glass. In the nose, cork, earth, 'horseblanket' and caramel malt vie for domination. In the glass, the cork-mouldiness is gone, and replaced by a lemon, squashed under a horsesaddle. Again some cork and earthy-notes in the taste. Acidity (lemon + buttermilk) surrounds everything without really settling and imposing itself. There is a weird presence of malt (anathema to gueuze, and an aged one at that - points towards top-fermenting addition), and some sulphur, even something chloridic. Mouthfeel is empty for a gueuze. A seriously aged ale can get in this direction, but not a gueuze. Tart all the same. Aftertaste is tartness AND sticky. Some oddball! An ale ought not to taste like gueuze. And a gueuze not like an ale. This is the result of mixing them. It doesn't convince.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2003
at 12:27