Oude Geuze à l'Ancienne - Limited Edition
Stekerij Ambreus in Buizingen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lambic Style - Gueuze Special|
Score
7.66
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Color: Hazy orangish golden, white head. Aroma: Hay, gooseberry and citrus fruit, tartness, rural funk, some wood. Taste: Over moderate tart, rural funk, oak wood, fruity citrus, lemon-like hints. Minerally, hay. Medium body, average carbonation. Very tasty, nice complexity. Will try to get some more to cellar.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Bottle end of the bottle at Brugge Beer Festival. Cloudy orange amber colour. Proper lambic aroma. Wow sour. But then some sweetness. Lovely lemon flavours. Some cereal wheat flavour. Yes very decent. Liked it. Sour
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
The follow-up to Ambreus' first geuze, blended with lambics from the same sources, only this time incorporating more old lambics, including a four year old portion, unconventionally (but often with great results - see De Cam's Gooikoorts geuze, for instance). Distinghuished from the regular by the dark label. Thick and firm, regularly shaped, egg-white, even-bubbled, dense, crackling head gradually thinning, long retaining but eventually dissolving on a misty, warm apricot-orangey glowing peach blonde robe, the mist perturbed by countless tiny bubbles everywhere. Quite powerful bouquet of lime juice, sawdust, dried orange pith, green apple, barnyard, old cheese rind, unripe plum, horseblanket (Brett), background hints of withering garden weeds, wakame, raw mussels, manure, wet concrete and something very vaguely sweetish (peach). Spritzy onset, evidently sour with lime, green gooseberry and green apple notes, lemony and sharpish at the edges but mellowing down a bit further on, even though very prickly carbonation does accentuate it; mellowness comes more from a bready malt underbuilt, still strongly dried by lactic, malic and lemony acidity - as befits a good geuze. Woody tannins create even more dryness at the back while subtler minerally and earthy to 'funky' (Brettanomyces) elements fill the finish, which otherwise remains crisp and citric, with this lime juice effect lingering; old hop bitterness is present, but very subordinate to citric and malic sourness, dry breadiness, woodiness and earthiness. In all, this limited edition does feel a tad more sophisticated than the already - to my taste - successfull regular Ambreus geuze, a bit more distinguished and a bit more refined, but it still remains a very classically shaped geuze in all respects, ticking all the boxes and remaining firmly within the expectation pattern of the style without adding anything to it. Predictable, in that sense, but utterly solidly made so cheers to that. Really looking forward to the kriek that is to follow...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear yellowblonde. Small white head. Scent is full, heavy and complex. Emphasis on wood and brett, but also a lot more, harder to pinpoint acid bacteria-like aroma's. Promissing ! Taste is full, citric tart on top, slightly acetic below. Loads of wood and brett again. Less complex and significantly less heavy than the aroma - but still that doesn't mean it's not complex or heavy in character. Bready, cookies even, shines trough. Less wheat-oriented than average. Slightly to acetic for my taste perhaps. Tart and very dry. Pretty solid Geuze ! Great as a special edition as this would indeed not be an everyday-er to me, but certainly fun to try.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
375mL bottle at the International Geuze & Kriek festival. Pours tons of buttery oak, musty old barrels on the nose. Flavour has great funky, hay, leather, upholstery. Fantastic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
375mL bottle at International Geuze & Kriek Festival 2025, pours a cloudy orangey yellow with a small white head. Aroma has gentle funk, light leather, and gentle citrus. Flavour is full of wet wood, gentle cardboard, leathery funk, and light citrusy finish. Nice funk character and rounded well. Excellent.