Gueuze
(has 2 batches)
Brouwerij De Troch in Wambeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.95
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This beer has not been produced for ages. If you bought a bottle you probably have "De Troch OUDE Gueuze" or "De Troch Winter Gueuze". Please rate accordingly!
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7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
37.5 cL bottle at DHVL, 1993. Pours clear and pale yellow with a small white head. Vague aroma of light brett and mild barnyard notes. Acidic and dry flavoured. Solid citric sour bite. Makes me shiver. Lovely lasting citric/sour bite into the far finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2009
at 15:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 5.5%. Good citric aroma, lemony with a little clean mold. Clear dark golden colour. Nice stable white head. The flavour is obviously citric, very clean. Some lemon and a tiny hint of cellar. Hurts my throat a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2009
at 16:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
[3/8/08] Bottle at De Heeren van Liedekercke in Denderleeuw. 1993 vintage. Clear golden with a very small, almost non-existing, white head. A rather funky aroma with some wood and some citrus. A very good flavor – dry sour citrus, some oak and barnyard character and some light astringency. Medium-bodied. A decent traditional Gueuze.
[9/4/08] Bottle, about 30-40 years old, shared by Uli at LambikODroom in Beersel. Clear deep golden color with a bit of white foam. Aroma of sugar, oak, fruits, some honey, oxidation, barnyard, a certain medicinal quality and vinegar. Puckering sour flavor with some citric notes. Medium-bodied. Same score as in the previous rating.
[9/4/08] Bottle, about 30-40 years old, shared by Uli at LambikODroom in Beersel. Clear deep golden color with a bit of white foam. Aroma of sugar, oak, fruits, some honey, oxidation, barnyard, a certain medicinal quality and vinegar. Puckering sour flavor with some citric notes. Medium-bodied. Same score as in the previous rating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Apr 2008
at 09:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. [Vintage 1999] Unclear light to medium yellow orange color with a average, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate lemon grape sour and sweet, fruity, wood. Flavor is moderate sweet, acidic and acetic with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily / watery, carbonation is flat. Very round and good balanced, mild but with character ;o)) (121207)
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2007
at 06:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
This one I had from the cellar of Joris - it was from the beginning of the 80’s - so around 20 years old when sampled. The color is an orange-brown and it has a thin head. The aroma is very sour - as a gueuze should be. The flavor is lovely sour with notes of metal and lemon on a rather dry background. This was really a treat Joris pulled out - thanks a lot, Joris.
Tried
on 21 May 2004
at 16:52
8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
It is very little known that brewery De Troch at Wambeek has always made - and still does - a traditional gueuze. In specialised beerpubs you can find the old one with the yellow label and lettering. In other pubs you might find the current with various lables, often for the pub itself (the, already defunct Schaere gueuze springs to mind), but you ought to be able to find it easily enough. For this tasting, I had only an old example. The saccharine (?) tells it all. One warning: if it bears the dreaded inscription "Chapeau" it is not what you are looking for. Colour: dull orange, little yellow head immediately gone. Very much 'horseblanket' in the nose, lemony, vinous as in old over-the-top Burgundy. Taste: very lemon-sour immediately, then flavour as in the smell of unsmoked cigarleaf, and the taste gets immediately milder (this is probably saccharine). Leather aroma. Acidburn, dry, woody. Interminable tumbling of acids, smokey and sweet-that-is-not-sugar notes. Very pleasing. Well worth looking for.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2003
at 06:58