0,75l from bottle at Pressklubben, Stockholm. Amber clear color, small white head. Smells funky, earthy, citric, peppery, oak. Very nice funky smell. Full body, soft carbonation. Tastes funky, citric, earthy, oak. Finishes lightly dry and lightly sour with notes of citrus, funk and oak notes. Very nice one, lovely funky notes

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Clear rose amber with a good cm of white head that lasts pretty well. Aroma of old lemon, the whitewashed laundry, berries, medium sherry, oak. Moderately sour. Quite deep sherry and some leather notes with caramelized berries under a nice citrusy lightening touch (surely there is more than enough younger lambic than required to get the bubbles) and a fairly heavily oaked finish. Sophisticated yet almost swiggable.

75cl bottle from Cora as my beer unique for now #9700 on Brewver.
F: medium, off-white, average retention.
C: amber, hazy.
A: nice complex, woody, citrus, bit red wine, funky, leather, rhubarb.
T: light sour fruity, woody, citrus, green apples, gooseberries, nice tannins, bit herbal, light lactic, nice smooth over-carbonated mouthfeel, very nice complex beer for the style, from March 13 2017, so now almost 8 years old, for 17€ this is truly amazing, fully enjoyable.

New specialty geuze by Lindemans for this year’s ‘Toer de Geuze’, containing a seven year old lambic; huge thanks to Jo and his father for this festive bottle. Medium thick, quite large-bubbled and irregular but well-retaining, off-white head on a slightly misty deep amber-tinged orange blonde robe with a lively column of sparkling in the middle, turning cloudy with sediment. Very complex and utterly elegant aroma combining young and old lambic in the most ‘complete’ way possible: old dry sherry from the seven year old lambic, wrinkled old autumn apples, dried mandarin peel, pronounced old oak wood, oxidized red wine, rosehip, old leather, lemonbalm, dried apricot, jute bags, dusty attic, elderblossom, minerals, cooked tomatoes (the old lambic again). Crisp, fruity onset – the young lambic pushing forward notes of halfripe plums, gooseberries, unripe nectarine and some green apple but also orange peel somewhere, fizzily carbonated (‘champenoise’) with smooth, very vinous mouthfeel – the mouthfeel of a sparkling wine indeed. Soft bready core under lots of fruity, lively lactic and other acids, but always ‘mals’ and elegant, moving towards very pronounced, noble, tannic woodiness, a prelude to the full blast of old lambic richness, varying between dry sherry, bergamot, dried orange, old parmigiano and herb tea – still kept in balance by this stonefruity and citric young lambic liveliness. A truly marvellous geuze for me, perhaps even slightly surpassing the already brilliant Cuvée Francisca from the previous Toer de Geuze – containing all the nobility and maturity one can expect from a seven year old lambic, but also the vibrant, tart, fruity-citrusy character of young lambic, working with each other in absolutely perfect balance. This is what Herberg should – and doubtlessly could – have done with their Geus Genereus as well, in my humble opinion…

Small off-white head, uncommonly stable over very lively carbonated clear orange-ochre beer. Intense farmyard aroma's, horseblanket, floral, citrus, sulphur. Mild flavour, almost suggesting sweetness, with wheatflavours, horseblanket. Slight toasted grains, combining with the acidburn. Some sulphur again. Light, if present acidburn and -thinning. Long lasting flavours and indeed very well carbonated. Excellent gueuze, no discussion. But I'm less than satisfied with the blurb: what exactly is meant by 7 yr. monoblend? It must be blended with young lambic (same foeder or...?), otherwise it would not be as effervescent. Is it a system of afterfilling, how is everything assembled... Explanations, please.