9.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
BLACK LABEL (=unfiltered)! Goden colour with slight orangey shine. For a gueuze, remarkably stable head, dirty-yellow. Nose of 'horseblanket', fresh flowers, sulphur, green apples and drying hay. Very dry is the immediate impression, yet carbonisation all over the place - together with the tannines, the onslaught on the front teeth is complete, no tartar left - if I weren't a dentist myself, mine would be out of work, now. The real taste is purely retronasal; citrus, pineapple, green apple, lime, lactic (no acetic). Yet there is a strain of sweetness - like in 'speculaas' grain-biscuits Belgain style. Mouthfeel is undistinguishable from the taste, as above. Close my eyes, and I'm in a horse stable, the animal still steaming from the exercise, closeby the summerharvest of still hot grain, apples, straw is being stored. Words of my vocabulary are not sufficient. Would I have smoked pot in my younger days, I might have found them. Then, I have not.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2003
at 13:44