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Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijLambic Style - Gueuze Regular
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Score
7.56
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This spontaneous fermented beer has been aged in Hungarian oak barrels and appears with a light amber color with almost no head.
The aroma is huge and very vinous. A clear impression of oxidized apples is the first thing that hits you, which made us think of heavy old fashioned British apple ciders. The aroma also reveals the wooden notes from the barrels along with some burned toffee and spices like Star anise.
It has a very heavy acidic profile at first, one that quickly slides into a smooth kind of sweetness. We taste green apples, carambola and very young green grapes. It has a certain lactic acidic touch and a creamy dry finish that lasts forever and bares the green impressions through.
Some mild creamy blue cheese on roasted rye bread would work great due to both the lactic and acidity impressions in this beer.
The aroma is huge and very vinous. A clear impression of oxidized apples is the first thing that hits you, which made us think of heavy old fashioned British apple ciders. The aroma also reveals the wooden notes from the barrels along with some burned toffee and spices like Star anise.
It has a very heavy acidic profile at first, one that quickly slides into a smooth kind of sweetness. We taste green apples, carambola and very young green grapes. It has a certain lactic acidic touch and a creamy dry finish that lasts forever and bares the green impressions through.
Some mild creamy blue cheese on roasted rye bread would work great due to both the lactic and acidity impressions in this beer.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Clear orange pour with a vigurous white head with little retention. Smells funky, with notes of barnyard, citrus, sodium bicarbonate, champagne yeast and vinegar. The taste is dominated by sour vinegar, together with grape must, sodium bicarbonate and grapefruit. Refreshing and thirst quenching, medium to light body and high carbonation with a sour aftertaste.
Tried
on 15 Jan 2016
at 11:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
375 ml bottle. Cloudy golden body with a small white head. Nice funky aroma with fruit, this one as a lot in common with French apple cider in the nose. Flavor is sweet and sour with fruity acidity, wood and pleasant funk. Really tasty and balanced, fine body as well and pleasant aftertaste. Not really super complex, but well-made with high drinkability.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2016
at 11:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
375 ml bottle. Nice nose of horse blanket, grapefruit, leather, funk, and some caramel. Amber-orange color. Good level of acidity, wood, grapefruit. Good gueuze that reminds me a bit of Boon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2016
at 18:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle: pours a brownish clear copper with a wee head. Aroma is tree, vinegar, slight wine, cider, and more vinegar. Taste at first is quite sour. A bit of sweetness in there. Slightly sour and sugary aftertaste. Notes of the tree throughout. Some candy. Natural and artificial flavors. Pretty fun.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2015
at 23:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Yellow color with weak foam. Aroma: wild (barnyard), barrel, ether, dry sherry, a little vinegar. Taste: good and moderate acidity, oak barrel, sherry, citrus, malt, hay, apple cider, vinegar. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2015
at 11:57
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2014 Bottle. Pours with a mostly clear orange hued body with a quick to fade white head. Aromas are of funk, ripe apple, tannin, cobwebs, musty, honeycomb, some acidity, pear. Light aged hop character, some oxidized perceived sweet notes, and a touch of urine. Flavors are sour, oaky, pineapple, oxidized. Lightly acetic. Some honey, floral, caramel. Tea like notes, barrel, acid, floral, barrel notes. Medium-full carbonation, dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2015
at 23:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a hazy earthy orange with a thin tan head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a sour/tart fruit note with a bit of acid and a light oaky funk backbone. Flavor is a bit more reserved with mellow tart fruits, light acid and a smooth funky oak note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2015
at 23:34
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375mL bottled 3/24/14, drunk 9/25/15.
Good clarity to the two glasses poured, with just a pinch of sediment getting in to the bottom of one. Rusty copper-tinged golden, with ample carbonation creating a fleeting white head.
Lovely cheese and wet earth smell in the nose gives way to apples, cardboard, sweat and light cream-of-wheat character. Very good funk to it, with some light buttertoffee-like notes picking up on the end. Oak in noted, but is not dominant. Very light on the lactic acid with lots more fruity/lively brett notes. No alcohol.
A touch more sweet than expected, in flavor, but with a fun brett lemon-lime character and a decided green apple and grapey flavor that they correctly point out in the description. Lots of cheese and must, some dry oak tannin and vanilla and a very soft, creamy-sweet texture for a "lambic". There are fleeting hints of metal, perhaps not full on rust or anything sharp/highly overt, but maybe more correct to call it a strong heavy mineral-like presence. Rather strong oxidation seems a bit out of place given this young a bottling date, but I’m just thankful it dosent have any dirtiness that you often get from De Proef. Furthermore, the green apples/green grapes, while they admit to them being there, are not exactly high on my list of flavors/aromas I want to find in a good lambic. Still, I like that the texture is good, the alcohol low and the brett and oak notes pretty lively and enjoyable.
Good clarity to the two glasses poured, with just a pinch of sediment getting in to the bottom of one. Rusty copper-tinged golden, with ample carbonation creating a fleeting white head.
Lovely cheese and wet earth smell in the nose gives way to apples, cardboard, sweat and light cream-of-wheat character. Very good funk to it, with some light buttertoffee-like notes picking up on the end. Oak in noted, but is not dominant. Very light on the lactic acid with lots more fruity/lively brett notes. No alcohol.
A touch more sweet than expected, in flavor, but with a fun brett lemon-lime character and a decided green apple and grapey flavor that they correctly point out in the description. Lots of cheese and must, some dry oak tannin and vanilla and a very soft, creamy-sweet texture for a "lambic". There are fleeting hints of metal, perhaps not full on rust or anything sharp/highly overt, but maybe more correct to call it a strong heavy mineral-like presence. Rather strong oxidation seems a bit out of place given this young a bottling date, but I’m just thankful it dosent have any dirtiness that you often get from De Proef. Furthermore, the green apples/green grapes, while they admit to them being there, are not exactly high on my list of flavors/aromas I want to find in a good lambic. Still, I like that the texture is good, the alcohol low and the brett and oak notes pretty lively and enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2015
at 15:06
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at Malt och Humle, Linköping, on September 12, 2015.Light golden color, small white head. Acidic, unripe berries scent and taste. Can drink it fine, but I didnät feel it was super complex to pick out various aromes and taste. Medium to medium thin mouthfeel, very low bitterness. Fresh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2015
at 10:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at home. Dullish cloudy orange with fine lacing. Nose is funky tart and some barnyard. Tastes of horse blanket, apple skin, touch of cheesy funk, lemon, white wine grapes. Sticky Lambic palate. Good effort here quite enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2015
at 21:10