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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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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Hazy dark golden with a small white head. Funky, complex aroma with raw wood, barnyard, hay and leather, with some fruity notes of apple and ripe grapes. The flavour is tart with wood and vinegar notes, sour, unripe apples, along with a sweeter fruity notes. One of the most complex and interesting lambiks I have had from Mikkeller
Tried
on 22 Jul 2015
at 13:48
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375ml bottle from Brewdog.com. Pours hazy orange with an encouragingly cheesy, bretty aroma. Taste is complex with green apple, blue cheese, some mangos and apricots. A captivating gueuze.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2015
at 09:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle @ Kihoskh, Copenhagen. Pours hazy golden with a small white head. Lots of Wood , barnyard and notes of lemon and bread. Good funk. Girardin black leaning towards 3F Oude Geueze. Dry end. Impressive!
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 06:48
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Kihoskh, consumed in room 1014 at Radisson Royal Hotel during CBC 2015. A bit orange/amber with a small head. Aroma of apples, wood, citrus and some light white bread. Similar taste. Also some yeast and white wine. Medium tart and with a dry finish. A nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2015
at 08:46
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Refrigerated 37.5 cl green bottle corked and caged poured into a tulip. Caramel colored with very small white head. Aroma is tart, medium body, very little carbonation, and no lacing. Taste is tart, funk, and wood. Hoped for more.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2015
at 20:06
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
KRS 181014. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is sourness, brett, mat, fruit . Flavour is sourness, brett, malt, wood, fruit, lemon, spices, apple.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2015
at 03:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Rose gold with a white head that’s gone quickly. Aroma of apples, light red wine, lemons, toffee, spices. Carbonation is pretty low, but there’s a delicate creaminess too it that might not come through so well if were any higher. Taste has a balance of sweet toffee apple and lemony and vinous sourness. Dry at the end with spicy wood and old lemon peel. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2015
at 06:11
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Gold amber colour, white foam head that diminishes and aroma of citrus, woody, barnyard. Taste is sour, lemon rind, grain, oak, honey, funk. Medium bodied, soft to medium carbonation, tangy sourish finish. Very drinkable
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2015
at 17:39
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, vintage 2014. Pours slightly hazy dark golden, with a big, short lived, creamy head. Aroma is sour lactic acid, oak barrels and tannins, as well as almonds, funky wooden brett. Quite full, velvety body, with average carbonation. Flavour is sour, lactic acid, wooden brett and wine barrels, as well as tart fruity notes. Rather short, tart fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 14:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(375ml bottle sample @ VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Feb 18 2015) Pours a hazy medium orange with a small white head. Aroma quite woody, overripe apple and pear, lemon zest, attic floorboard, toffee sweetness that’s weird for a gueuze, a bit vinous. Palate quite tannic, dry, green apple skin, young oak notes, light lactic, a little vinous. Finish is woody, just softly sweet but quite tannic and astringent though without bitterness. Funk very restrained on the palate. Medium bodied with active carb. This is actually really nice even if it doesn’t seem quite like a "proper" gueuze. A little heavy on wood and light on funk, but it’s tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Feb 2015
at 16:35