Bottle - Aroma of slightly sour apples not unlike a cider. Dark tan color. Sweet-tart flavor with slight hint of apples again but with a rather unpleasant metallic aftertaste (fades as beer warms). A nicely complex beer but a less tart gueuze.

The first Lambic I ever tried. Left me a bit dissapointed. Maybe it was the bottle, maybe it was that fine kriek smell that made me expect something special. Don’t know now. The colour was a nice deep red, but the head was big, and pink (which was in a way off-putting). The taste was sour, with the cherries barely showing from time to time, and it felt watered down.

Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Dark ruby red color, almost no head. Sour kriek nose. Sour, sweet, mould and earthy flavor. Short kriek/cherry aftertaste, sour. (8/3/6/3/13 3.3)
Re-rate, bottled (BB 03/2005)
Cheery red with good creamy reddish head, lace. Earthy, mould aroma but same time fresh. Taste is extremely freshing with some earthy and mould tones. Cherry is underlying somewhere in a palate. Quite thin, quickly finish with some sourness. (6/4/7/4/14 3.5)
Corked bottle (BB 01/2007). Deep red, clear. Small red head. Nose is very metallic, mixed with cherry. Drier than I remembered, even sour, slightly metallic. Better than its fame. (6/4/7/4/14 3.5)

Bottle Pours a cloudy deep red with a good frothy white head that never completely goes away. It and nice lacing are maintained well. Aroma is a ver nice sour cherry with earthy musty hints. Flavor however leaves some to be desired. That strong cherry flavor is missing and only a tease of what could be there. Bread, yeast, old wood barrels are a nice inclusion but dissapointing on the cherry. Feel is lively and refreshing. Not very dry or sweet. The after taste is more like sucking on a piece of the barell used to store the stuff. Not bad, just doesn’t compare to the Lindemans.

A very nice dark cherry aroma with dark red color. Flavor of dark cherry but rather weak - did not match what I anticipated from the aroma. Shared with a group - the guys hated it and the girls liked it - there you go. Addendum: Had a bottle cellared for about 18 months, a totally different beer - aroma takes on the more traditional mustiness with cherry sweetness greatly fading. Flavor matches aroma - a musty, dry light cherry flavor. Aging made this much more like a traditional lambic.

Bottled (BB 01/2005)
Red, good steady head, lots of lace. Rasberry nose, strong aroma. Sweet and a bit sour rasberry flavor. A bit sour aftertaste.

A deep red beer with a small head. The aroma is very strong of cherries. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of cherries and only slightly sour. Not nearly sour enough.

This one was Gueuze La Bécasse (Truth to tell, I cheated a little. This old sample has not only a different (earlier) label, it was still named slightly different - Gueuze lambic de la Becasse . Mind you, ten years ago the original Brabrux was closed already - maybe still from De Neve...) No head; dark foxy-golden, like liquid honey. Nose of sugar syrup, touch woody, but before anything, very fruity. I must confess it has a certain Sauternes-like aroma; grapes with the "noble putrefaction". Maybe also like "Muscat de Samos"; bit liquorice too. Woody, taste much less sweet & fruity than the nose. Liqueurish still, bit of "madeirisation", rather again more like a grape liqueur than port or madeira. Something burnt in the finish. slick, oily mouthfeel, viscuous, higher alcohols? This has turned out rathergood. It has, unfortunately, nothing to do with gueuze. Very sweet. Real rating for Geuze Belle Vue; 7/4/6/1/12/ 3.0 Hazy amber; thick creamy head, collapsing and very lacy. Very fruity and woody nose. Not "horseblanket" but something very similar, both sweeter and more winelike. Taste is both sweet and tart. Nothing sour. Very woody in character, vaguely almondy. Demi-sec winish character keeps very outspoken. Also wet wool? Creamy mouthfeel. In the aftertaste, everything goes wrong. The character gets outspoken artificially sweet and "forced". This isn’t gueuze. I’ve tasted American pseudo-gueuze that comes nearer the real thing. But until the abysmal finish, this is a decent beer in its own right. It reminds me (well, well, well...) of some old-time mixtures of spontaneous & top fermenting beers (Jack-Op from Wolvertem, Knal from Halle...)