Oude Geuze Vandervelden 142
Brouwerij Oud Beersel in Beersel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Series|
Score
7.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL at the International Geuze & Kriek festival. Pours hazy blonde with a white head. Musty old wood and mildew on the nose. Flavour has old wood, must, mildew. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
750mL bottle at International Geuze & Kriek Festival 2025, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Aroma has lots of wet wood, barnyard funk, and some citrus. Flavour has a wonderful barnyard funk, wet wood, light citrus and a touch of hay. Beautiful funk and woody dry finish. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours unclear blonde. Small white head. Scent is sharp, funky oak. Taste is sharp, oaky, citric, malty. Balanced acidity. Malty finish. great geuze !
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Color: Clear golden. White head. Aroma: Tart, fruity, funky. Taste: Moderate tart, barnyard and horse blanket funk, old oak wood, tannins and hay. Very light bitterness. Dry-ish mouthfeel. Fruity notes of green apple and gooseberry, hints of lime. Refreshing, low complexity. Nice one overall.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Unclear golden color with white head. Aroma is big barn, lemony, green apples, nutty. Taste is nutty, vineous, leather. Foamy carbonation. As always in this series, a great one!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Pretty good, fluffy white head over hazy orange beer. Horseblanket, sulphur, immortelles, putteke , lemon, lactic acid. Soft acidity, almost vanilla, lemonrind, wheat. Soft farmyard flavours, sunflower seeds, horseblanket, ripe grain. Light acidburn and -thinning, good carbonation, wheatslickness; long lasting flavours. Geuze as gueuze ought to be.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy blond colour, white foam. Woody, lots of brett, lemon, barnyard, funky and leathery. Tart and woody, not very complex.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
This year's edition of HORAL's Toer de Geuze spawned a new Vandervelden, the fourth in a series of geuzes honouring the history of the brewery and its founder Henri Vandervelden and differing from the previous edition (launched at Toer de Geuze 2022) in its higher weighted average of the used lambics' age, namely three years. From a 75 cl bottle with cork and muselet, under high pressure and opening with a bang, but not gushing. Initially crackling, egg-white, densely moussey, medium thick, regular head remaining closed and dense for a long time over a misty deep golden blonde robe with warm peachy tinge and swirls of fierce sparkling everywhere. Strong aroma (fully detectable half a yard away) of ripe green gooseberries, medium dry sherry, raw rhubarb, lemon juice, dusty old bookshelves, dry straw bales, moist oak wood, dried field flowers, hard green plums, Granny Smith apples, cracked leather, jute rope, volatile hint of damp farmland in the background, touch chlorine. Very crisp onset, more vividly lemon-like sour than expected but in a highly refreshing way, 'crystalline' in combination with the sharp, champagne-like effervescence; abundant estery notes of green gooseberries, green apples and green plums all contributing to a general edginess, crispness and crunchiness, seamlessly evolving into deep, drying lactic acid further on, piercing thoroughly through a bread-crusty core and in the end meeting a lot of 'dusty', rustic woodiness with severely drying tannins. An 'old hop' bitter element waits in the very end, but not before retronasal impressions of old straw bales, old dry sherry (aged lambic indeed) and old cracked leather have passed by. A bitter-sour unripe stonefruit acerbity strongly lingers in the end, as if biting in a green plum or hard nectarine - a combination of lime juice and dried lemon peel also springs to mind. This sharp 'green-fruity' effect keeps things sleek and, in a certain way, juicy, but this geuze remains very pungent and bone dry till the end, in a lively and entertaining manner. Yet another magnificent tribute to Oud Beersel's own history - I recall drinking geuze blended by the late Henri Vandervelden himself a couple of decades ago and this is one of those bottles bringing back that memory. I have argued before that Oud Beersel is one of those few producers at the absolute top of master geuze blending and this is another strong argument for that statement - I am a fan. Too bad I missed out on Toer de Geuze this year, but enjoying the new editions made for it (like this one) afterwards at home sure makes up for a lot.