8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
First ratingInitial Rating Date: 4/9/2006Bottle at the April meeting of Svenska Ölfrämjandet in Gothenburg, Sweden.Red-brown color, small pink head. Very sour scent, like a gueuze. Very sour taste, spritzy mouthfeel. Low bitterness, sour aftertaste.6/4/6/3/10=2.9Second rating(37.5 cl bottle at Restobieres, Brussels)On March 22, 2008Slight hazy brown color, huge pink lasting head. Sweet and almond scent. Acidic, lactic, smooth, sour cherry taste. Very fizzy mouthfeel, low bitterness. Sweet and almond aftertaste.9/5/7/3/15=3.9Rerate75 cl bottle from Etre Gourmet, sampled on September 23, 2014 in Ludvika.2013 vintage.Slight bit hazy reddish color, pink head. Buttery, cherry scent. Cherry, sweet, tart taste. Fizzy mouthfeel, low bitterness. Buttery aftetaste.Again a buttery beer from Girardin! What the hell happened?6/4/6/2/11=2.9Rerate25 cl bottle thanks to Ingo! Sampled on May 3, 2015.Hazy brown color, off-white head. Sweet, cherry scent. Acidic, cherry taste. Cherry jam aftertaste. Medium to medium thin mouthfeel, very low bitterness.7/4/7/3/13=3.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2006
at 02:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cork popped and rapid foam streamed out of the bottle. Quickly poured into a tumbler. Horseblanket with hazy cider appearance. Thin, constant head. Sour, bitter taste -- like sour patch kid without the sweet turn. Citrus rinds. Fizzy with a lasting sour finish. Refreshing
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Mar 2006
at 17:42
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Foxy-amber, totally clear beer with slim off-white head. Rotting nose, caramel, rotting meat, wood (also...), cardboard. Slight sourish edge around wood, cardboard, and quite some caramel(syrup) sweetness. Not really cloying, but still... Slick, but not oversyrupy MF. Very ho-hum faro, can do much better; the nose is revolting.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2006
at 16:48
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Fles 37,5cl thuis. Smakelijke gueuze, redelijk commercieel. (2-2006).------.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2006
at 20:53
9.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Bottle. Dirty gold colour thickish white head. Farmyardy lemon aroma, some sourness. In mouth fine, with more sour lemon and funkyness. Finish has more of the same. Bit of an aquired taste. Not as extreme as same. Lemony acids balance the funkyness. Fine and quite interesting. Not sure I’d want more than one of these a week though. 3.6/5.0. Re-rate Christmas Day 2008. First beer of the day and what a way to start. So drinkable it is untrue. The farmyard, bretty aroma, the lemon flavours, the mouthfeel is soft and just right with a little fullness from the carbonation. Refreshing. Would have this as my first beer of the day, in the middle and at the end. Almost as good as the bottle at the Waterhuis in Gent pre-Zythos 2008 that is the best I’ve ever had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2006
at 13:03
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Golden color; giant head, very lively bottle. The aroma is very strange: old cellar, with some plastic, magnesia and a hint of citrus fruits. The first sip is mellower than expected, then the real character comes out, being more astringent than sour, with a final touch of grapefruit.
It’s quite different from the other Gueuze, but maybe not really complex and unforgettable.
It’s quite different from the other Gueuze, but maybe not really complex and unforgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2006
at 08:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Utobeer, Attractive scarlet colour with pink lasting head. Intense raspberry jam aroma. Expect it to be sicly sweet, but the hit of sourness that comes in later, balances it. Good integrated fruit. Real fruit flavour, not artificial. You can really taste the pips on this. Some vanilla raspberry ripple ice cream-esque. Wonderful quality fruit lambic
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2006
at 16:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle Blew its cork and erupted tan foam all over my kitchen. The remaining %20 of the 375ML bottle had very nice cidery aromas of apples, pears ets. Cloudy, orange light tan color.and a short lived lively head. Flavor was the expected dry sour flavor common to the style. I’m afraid a bit too much sediment was in with the last couple ounces in my sampling. A nice tart and, yes, quenching brew. Thanks to Degarth for slipping this top 50 ber in my box today.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2006
at 23:02
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Dark orange nearly opaque, with a short lived champagne like head. This is an intense gueuze that attacks the palate and the throat with good, but strange spontaneously fermented weirdness; it actually made me cough a few times. Powerful eye watering aroma that includes wheat, yeast, and juniper. Powerful flavor. Sour, light citrus, herbs, and more yeast. Strange slimy sediment that doesn’t harm the flavor.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2005
at 22:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Red color; huge pink head, rather explosive bottle. Aroma of mature raspberries, sweet. Sour and quite astringent, delicate fruitness. The final is too bitter and astringent. Not impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2005
at 17:48