0,15l from bottle at Arrogant Sour Festival 2022. Amber hazy color, small white head. Smells earthy, grassy, grainy, spices, peppery. Nice smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes grassy, earthy, stone fruits, bit grainy, tobacco, peppery, nutty, herbs. Finishes lightly sour with notes of peppery, grass and herbal notes.good one overall, very much on the young side but overall good

7, 7, 7, 6, 7

Clear dark yellow colour with thin head. Carbonation is quite light. The wooden barrels come through really strongly. Next to the light tannins there's even a touch of vanilla. It's got a pleasant slightly lemony citric tartness too. Nicely complex. Great dry finish.

Light hazy amber colour, white foam. Nose of lemon, funk, some dust. Taste is tart, lemony, brett, some grassiness. Not very complex.

22/I/22 - 37.5cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck (Vichte), shared @ home, BB: 4/VI/30, bottled: 4/VI/20 (2022-93)

Clear gold blond beer, small aery irregular white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty fruity, apples and pears, bit dusty, wood notes, bit peppery, apple cider. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sweet in the start, fruity, bit sourish, lemony, funky, lots of sour apples, a bit dry, nice but lacks some character... Aftertaste: fruity, apple, a little woody, funky touch, citric acidity, not bad, but rather “clean”, and lacking some complexity, despite having aged over 18 months in the bottle.

Bottle. Bottled 09-02-2021. Color: Clear golden to amber, white head. Aroma: Funky, lightly tart, fruity notes. Taste: Quite crisp and clean. Notes of straw, farmyard funk, moldy cellar, some gooseberry, citrus fruit, hints of wood and old hop. Floral, earthy. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Light tart, very light sweet and bitter. Ok but lacking complexity and excitement in my opinion. A bit too crisp.

Back from the dead: geuze Eylenbosch, now created by a member of the De Keersmaeker family (Mort Subite) in collaboration with two other partners. This is a first version, a kind of 'sneak preview' if you want, hence the "Prematuurke": in the absence of three year old lambic of their own, they used three year old lambic from De Troch. If I am correctly informed, the younger lambics have also been brewed at De Troch but by the Eylenbosch guys themselves (perhaps with e.g. a different ratio of malted barley versus wheat in order to approach the original Eylenbosch recipe - I'll try to find out more information about that), and then conditioned in Eylenbosch barrels. This first Prematuurke version produces an initially medium sized, but quickly thinning, egg-white head, opening quickly but retaining for a while around the edge and leaving a paper thin veil in the middle, before dissolving completely; misty yellow-tinged pale apricot blonde robe, sparkling only lightly and sparsely (especially for a geuze which I expect to be more 'champenoise' in terms of sparkling). Aroma immediately betrays De Troch's house style: that typical bitter-plant-like smell of cranesbill leaves, dried wormwood from an old herbarium, old dry leather and dried grapefruit peel, next to impressions of lemon juice slowly going stale, unripe gooseberries, oxidized green apple slices, raw rhubarb stems, old bread crumbs, dusty jute bags. Crisply sour onset, quite some unripe stonefruit and lemon peel astringency but also a refreshing, softer lime-like sourness and a somewhat soapy green apple effect; refined carbonation, perhaps a tad too quiet for the style, but still quite some minerality underneath - again, as in De Troch lambic. Supple bready and bit soapy-wheaty core deeply buried under drying lactic tartness and sharpish green fruitiness, with that unripe plum or nectarine astringency continuing well into the finish. Tannic woody effects, the typical 'bitter plant' aspects of De Troch's aged lambic and this more refreshing, lemony aspect grace the final stages, with a touch of Bretty funkiness (old leather, damp hay) and a very deeply situated, in fact hardly noticeable but structurally crucial 'old hoppiness'. The lemony aspects keeps things juicy, while at the same time this De Troch bitter 'herbality' and minerality remains very strong; if anyone told me that this is in fact a De Troch Oude Geuze, I would have easily believed it - and it would be very close to the truth. Somewhat undercarbonated for this style, perhaps not the most complex geuze around and feeling a bit young still, the name 'Prematuurke' is probably not badly chosen, but I like it nonetheless, though I was just a little bit more enthusiastic about the Oude Kriek last week. I expect the 'completed' Eylenbosch version, scheduled for later this year I believe, to show somewhat more maturity and depth, but this one was in any case exciting to drink - too bad the original, historical geuze Eylenbosch is too long ago for me to properly compare, from a time I did not take tasting notes yet... --- Beer merged from original tick of Eylenbosch Oude Gueuze Prematuurke on 29 Jan 2021 at 16:26 - Score: Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Back from the dead: geuze Eylenbosch, now created by a member of the De Keersmaeker family (Mort Subite) in collaboration with two other partners. This is a first version, a kind of 'sneak preview' if you want, hence the Prematuurke: in the absence of three year old lambic of their own, they used three year old lambic from De Troch. If I am correctly informed, the younger lambics have also been brewed at De Troch but by the Eylenbosch guys themselves (perhaps with e.g. a different ratio of malted barley versus wheat in order to approach the original Eylenbosch recipe - I'll try to find out more information about that), and then conditioned in Eylenbosch barrels. This first Prematuurke version produces an initially medium sized, but quickly thinning, egg-white head, opening quickly but retaining for a while around the edge and leaving a paper thin veil in the middle, before dissolving completely; misty yellow-tinged pale apricot blonde robe, sparkling only lightly and sparsely (especially for a geuze which I expect to be more 'champenoise' in terms of sparkling). Aroma immediately betrays De Troch's house style: that typical bitter-plant-like smell of cranesbill leaves, dried wormwood from an old herbarium, old dry leather and dried grapefruit peel, next to impressions of lemon juice slowly going stale, unripe gooseberries, oxidized green apple slices, raw rhubarb stems, old bread crumbs, dusty jute bags. Crisply sour onset, quite some unripe stonefruit and lemon peel astringency but also a refreshing, softer lime-like sourness and a somewhat soapy green apple effect; refined carbonation, perhaps a tad too quiet for the style, but still quite some minerality underneath - again, as in De Troch lambic. Supple bready and bit soapy-wheaty core deeply buried under drying lactic tartness and sharpish green fruitiness, with that unripe plum or nectarine astringency continuing well into the finish. Tannic woody effects, the typical 'bitter plant' aspects of De Troch's aged lambic and this more refreshing, lemony aspect grace the final stages, with a touch of Bretty funkiness (old leather, damp hay) and a very deeply situated, in fact hardly noticeable but structurally crucial 'old hoppiness'. The lemony aspects keeps things juicy, while at the same time this De Troch bitter 'herbality' and minerality remains very strong; if anyone told me that this is in fact a De Troch Oude Geuze, I would have easily believed it - and it would be very close to the truth. Somewhat undercarbonated for this style, perhaps not the most complex geuze around and feeling a bit young still, the name 'Prematuurke' is probably not badly chosen, but I like it nonetheless, though I was just a little bit more enthusiastic about the Oude Kriek last week. I expect the 'completed' Eylenbosch version, scheduled for later this year I believe, to show somewhat more maturity and depth, but this one was in any case exciting to drink - too bad the original, historical geuze Eylenbosch is too long ago for me to properly compare, from a time I did not take tasting notes yet...

Pours unclear blonde. Small, nearly no head . Scent is very funky, wet oak, funk. De troch kind of funk, more specifically. In a way that it's not as overpowering as regular de troch. Still not my favorite aroma, but at least not off-putting. Taste is full, intense, citrussy, tart. De troch funk ( medium intense ) . Oak. A better version of De Troch geuze. Medium sour . Decent. Very happy to have tried this, but wouldn't buy again for the taste.