Bottle picked up from Mikkeller Webshop, Denmark, and consumed during BeerwithNat Beer school, Thursday 18th February 2021, we had Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas with homemade Beer Batter and homemade Tartare Sauce. Pours gold with a lovely clean white head, lovely zippiness, nicely acidic, liking the barrel ageing, tastes very champagne like , lovely, lovely softness, very drying at the back of the mouth, a lovely beer. This is a lovely beer.

Bottle. Craft and Berry, Sheffield. Xmas gift from the missus. Hazed gold. Firm, thin, lasting bright white head. Looks the beans. Nose has apple and grape skin. New shoes. Super clean grain and yeast. Taste is dry and lightly bitter. Some tartness. Fresh on the palate. Foamy carbonation. Tart and dry finish.

Bottle. Rather clear golden color with white head. Aroma is all the stinky feet you want from a Geuze, very whitewiney, oak, brioche, nutty, impressive! Taste is very unexpected, like a light-bodied white wine, mild exotic fruits, really lieblich, surprisingly undry. Nice one, bonus points for character!

Bottle. Nice dry lichen apple cider, vermouth, brioche aroma, funkyinteresting. Cloudy amber, offwhite foam. Medium light foamy peach sweet base. Dry appleskin, bretty wood, sparkly fresh, cidery, super drinkable. Very neat.

Bouteille 37.5cl, from and shared with Eugene @ 77ships pre-2021 tasting in Antwerpen. Anno 2020.
Dorée, léger orangée, col fin blanc.
Arôme garde une approche classique Boon avec un funk modéré et bien vivant - rétro plaisant de boisé avec un fruité latent qui se magnifie fort bien sur des notes fruits et baies blancs - retrouve ce léger côté raisin fermenté blanc - sans pour autant avoir un côté tannique.
Palais est plaisant, sec marqué, retrouve fort bien ce caractère de Boon - léger résiduel de boisé-chêne avec un bonus pour ce vieillissement en foudre champennois. Ce dernier apporte un fini plus sec et brut avec un léger fruité blanc de raisin. Le tout garde un citrique fin.

As a tradition set five years ago prescribes, this year's collab of Mikkeller and Boon is a geuze with a special touch, the case being that it consists of 1 and 3 year old lambics (the 2 year old one, normally also present in "oude geuze", has remarkably been omitted here) that were aged in barrels which - quote the label - "were originally used for some French white bubbly wine from a well-known region", strongly suggesting champagne, though this remains undisclosed. Thick, very frothy, egg-white, irregularly edged but very stable and firm head on an initially crystal clear, warm old-golden beer with deeper orangey-apricot tinge - and not a storm, but a true tornado of sparkling swirling wildly through the glass, more so even than was the case in practically any other geuze I ever had, a wonderful sight to behold; a beautiful 'mist' arises as more of the bottle is emptied into the glass (and eventually some dead yeast sinking to the bottom). Somewhat funky (for Boon at least) but 'noble' aroma of dried peach kernels, grass silage, 'brut' champagne, grape skin, dusty old oak cupboards with dusty old books in them, sawdust even, hayloft, dried out lemon peel, hard unripe peach, sour green apples, dried porcini from an old jute bag, unripe green plums, a whiff of manure in the background and a faint background note of the chlorine that typifies old Boon lambic - but fainter than in e.g. most of the Mono Blends or even the Black Label. Dry from the start, green apple, unripe stonefruit and unripe pear, with a lemony sour edge, a bit more acidic perhaps than in most Boon geuze variants, but nowhere harshly puckering; very spritzy, 'champenoise' effervescence as expected, and as befits a good geuze. Lean body, dry old bread crumb-like, somewhat grainy malt base buried under a long stretch of drying lactic tartness, lots of hard unripe green fruit effects and increasingly astringent woody tannins - ending in the old 'dusty cupboard' colour that dominates the nose; Brettanomyces effects are clear enough, with that horseblanket and hayloft funkiness, but remain well in balance with the sourness and fruitiness. 'Deep' but quite outspoken, almost dry wormwoody hop bitter effect in the tail, further accentuating an already bone dry profile - with indeed a 'brut champagne' association to it. Not literally 'vinous' like the label says, certainly 'brut' though, dusty, funky without going over the top and packed with astringent unripe fruit effects and ending quite bitter: I did like some of the earlier Boon / Mikkeller geuze editions a bit more perhaps (if my older ratings here are to be trusted), but that changes nothing to the fact that this is again a treat for the seasoned geuze drinker. Highly appetizing and thirst-quenching, with multiple layers of flavour: isn't that what any good traditional geuze is about?

Taster at home courtesy of Saeglopur, big thanks. yellow hazy color, small white head. smells funky, cheese, citric, wood, light baby diaper, lovely smell. full body, soft carbonation. tastes citric, grassy, wood, funk, some ripe fruits, oak, light horse radish, hints of sweetness. finishes sour with hints of some sweetness and notes of oak, citrus and funky notes. wow, this is lovely, body is a tad heavy, but overall very good to drink.