7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Decent head with medium duration. Color is brown. Heavy aroma of fruits and spices. Taste is sweet and fruity with some alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2006
at 19:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, 9%. Clear golden colour. Spicy, peppery flavour. Aromaless. High carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Aug 2006
at 17:12
2.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2
Best before 11/2004, 250mL capped bottle from Jacob Lovenlund, consumed on 8/5/06. So almost 3 years old, I think? That or 4 years old, I can’t imagine the brewery recommends keeping this pasteurised, filtered crap much longer than 1 year.
The appearance says Belgian ambree, as it’s quite ruddy-orange and too dark for a true gueuze (and this is obviously no specialty gueuze). Off-white head is large, foamy/fizzy and quickly recedes to partial cover and then ring, leaving little-to-no lacing behind. Fizzy, large bubbles rise languidly to the top, but can not bolster the head for long.
Heavily, heavily sugary in the nose. It pretty much smells like priming sugar, like corn sugar/syrup, was used to give this beer aroma. DMS is certainly rampant. Behind the vegetal nightmare, lies a sugary, caramel-like "maltiness". Wheat is lightly dry, nutty. No alcohol in the nose. No lambic either.
Flavor - sigh....it’s like the rest of its brothers; chapeau, mort subite, lindemans, belle-vue, sadly lacking of any lambic notes, sugary, corny, vegetal, metallic, watery, cloying. Just a horrid mess. The good news is that I’m almost through the gauntlet of these fake gueuzes.
The appearance says Belgian ambree, as it’s quite ruddy-orange and too dark for a true gueuze (and this is obviously no specialty gueuze). Off-white head is large, foamy/fizzy and quickly recedes to partial cover and then ring, leaving little-to-no lacing behind. Fizzy, large bubbles rise languidly to the top, but can not bolster the head for long.
Heavily, heavily sugary in the nose. It pretty much smells like priming sugar, like corn sugar/syrup, was used to give this beer aroma. DMS is certainly rampant. Behind the vegetal nightmare, lies a sugary, caramel-like "maltiness". Wheat is lightly dry, nutty. No alcohol in the nose. No lambic either.
Flavor - sigh....it’s like the rest of its brothers; chapeau, mort subite, lindemans, belle-vue, sadly lacking of any lambic notes, sugary, corny, vegetal, metallic, watery, cloying. Just a horrid mess. The good news is that I’m almost through the gauntlet of these fake gueuzes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2006
at 19:24
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can, 25 cl, best before date: 30 07 2007, purchased on July 29 2006; eye: cherry with a pinkish head that disappears rather quickly but leaves a ring around the glass, clear, no effervescence; nose: cherry syrup, maraschino cherries, sugar; mouth: cherry syrup, sugar, finale of cherry but the sweetness is controled a little by a little acidity with a hint of sugar at the end, quite sweet, no bitterness, full body, sticky texture, rather thin, good carbonation; overall: not so bad but quite sweet FRANÇAIS Canette, 25 cl, date de péremption : 30 07 2007, date d’achat : 29 juillet 2006; oeil : cerise avec une mousse rose qui disparaît assez rapidement mais laisse un petit anneau autour du verre, claire, pas d’effervescence; nez : sirop de cerises, cerises marasquin, sucre; bouche : sirop de cerises, sucre, finale de cerise mais coupée par une petite acidité et pointe de sucrée à la toute fin, très sucrée, aucune amertume, corsée, texture collante et plutôt mince, bonne carbonatation; en résumé : pas pire mais pas mal sucrée
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2006
at 15:07
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Clear yellow coloured with a medium sized white head. Aroma of fruits with note of spices and light acidic notes. Fruity flavour with notes of spices and alcohol. You fell the alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2006
at 08:56
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Dirty brown coloured with a thin off white head. Very classy flemish sour aroma, with grounde cherries, sweet candy notes and light acidic points. In mout, however, a pathetic and thin sour, with light cherries and tartess and watery like hell. Bottle at l’Autre Oeil, July 26, 2006.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jul 2006
at 08:57
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
(Bottle 25 cl) Pours a clear dark red with a strong, dark red head. Thick aroma of black currants. Very light body with sourish black currant flavour with almost no underlying sweetness. 240706
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2006
at 16:14
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Ruby red colour, mediumsized reddish white head. Aroma of cherries and nuts. Sweet cherry in flavour. Quite mouthdrying. Strong cherry in aftertaste, also the throat goes quitge dry. Surprisingly full for a 3.2% beer. The cherry feels artificial in this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2006
at 11:08
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. Amber colour, small white head. Aroma of sour hops and candy sugar. Flavour is hops and candysugar also. Wellbalanced, and not too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2006
at 11:07
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear red color with a thin light pink head. Sweet cherry aroma. Sweet cherry flavor with some light carbonation.
Tried
on 23 Jul 2006
at 16:38