Gueuze de Nivelles
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Special Out of Production|
Score
6.82
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Kraddel (15810) reviewed Gueuze de Nivelles from Brasserie du Brabant 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared with Fred ( the brewer ) . Vintage beer from before his ’stop’ . Pours unclear amber, good white head. Smell is very aged, full, bit funk. Taste is bit sour, some age, mild madeira. Some grains, bit dry, mild plastic.
oh6gdx (50921) reviewed Gueuze de Nivelles from Brasserie du Brabant 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled@Belgobaren, Stockholm (old backlog from about 2010). Hazy goldeny orange colour, with a small creamy white head. Aroma is mild tart wooden notes, some slight sweet malts as well as earth and some frutyness. Flavour is quite tart wooden and fruity notes along with mild yeast/spices and some slight caramel as well. Quite mouthdrying.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Gueuze de Nivelles from Brasserie du Brabant 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Hazy yellow-orange; fine & dense off-white head, receding leaving good lace. Brett-nose, lemony, citrus, even some leather & saddle-soap, rainwater. I let it sniff blind to another taster, and we agreed on "quite gueuze-like". Taste is more dry-phenolic than the typical Brett/lactic sourness one might expect. Quite spicey, citrussy, unripe plums, and a bit of cardboard. Has a rather quick finish, leaving only a vague acidity behing, and a bit of dry-out effect. Not very full-bodied, with not enough acids to fill in the gap. Quite dry indeed. Very good try at (re) mixing the top fermenting ale with spontaneous refermentation. The nose is quasi-authentic. I like this, as I do most du Brabant works.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
(Bottle 75 cl) Master brewer Frédérik Magerat told me, that this starts with an ale yeast, then he opens his tanks and lets the wild yeast take over. Pale golden and very unclear with a fine, creamy head. Slightly sourish nose. Fruity and citrusy notes on a very light body. Acidic yes, but actually rather soft and easy to drink - no exaggerated acid here. I bet even sk8viking could fall in love with this.... 170705