7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aroma of champagne and yeast. looks like a golden pilsner with sediment floating in it. Flavors of sugar, yeast, and lemon. Mildly sour. I was surprised by how good this is. Better than the raspberry.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2004
at 13:16
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Rather ugly hazy amber colour. Aroma and palate are sweet & sour with lemon notes and a healthy dose of sugar. Same as all the other Chapeaus, just with a different fruit flavour. Lemon is ok for lambics so it's more tolerable that some of their other ones.
Tried
on 29 Dec 2003
at 18:29
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
this is a pretty lame lambic, more like a woodchuck cider than anything. Has a nice orange color and looks dense. otherwise do not waste your time.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2003
at 19:55
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 2
Pale brown-amber; rim of foam. Imagine a X-mas stall, sprayed white with a chemical foam and surrounded with pine branches. Then somebody dropped a load of wild mushrooms next to it, and clearly forgot about them. That's for the nose. The taste. Sweet. Sweeter. Sweetst. Syrup, of the cough variety. Maple as well. GODS! Medium bodied. AARGH. GUEUZE?? --- Beer aliased from original tick of Chapeau Xmas Gueuze on 23 Aug 2021 at 07:03
Tried
on 14 Dec 2003
at 03:06
4.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Cloudy, dull dark tan appearance. Aroma shows brettanomyces at first, followed by some sugar, then it gets plummy and syrupy with vague almond skin notes. Sweet & sour character like an oud bruin, but with the added yellow plum fruitiness. Definitely a dessert beer, as the sweetness grows more intense and gets cloying as you go.
Tried
on 04 Dec 2003
at 11:26
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled, 2001 vintage. Brownish amber. Fruity aroma with marshmallows, banana and old horse blanket. Sweet, dusty and rounded, rounded and sugary with low carbonation. Sweet like faro, lightly vinous with a touch of very old strawberry jam. --- Beer aliased from original tick of Chapeau Xmas Gueuze on 23 Aug 2021 at 07:03
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2003
at 14:42
4.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
The flavor is strong of sweet cherries - somewhat artificial. The color is an unclear red-brown with next to no head. The flavor is very sweet with a hint of sour sharpness and strong artificial notes of cherries. It ends on a sour cherry note, that lingers. Definatly not a good kriek - the problem with this beer, is that it is added yeast (in a kriek?), sugar, and cherry juice - those three ingredients should be substituted by real cherries
Tried
on 03 Sep 2003
at 13:41
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Hazy red, pink-coloured head, little but lacey. Horrible smell of cabbage and bananaester. Sweet, artificial cherry smell. Puking sweet taste as of maraschino-cherries. Retronasal some aroma of almonds - a cherrykernel gone AWOL? Sticky mouthfeel, not even refreshing. Simply terrible - and to think he makes REAL kriek too!
Tried
on 01 Sep 2003
at 09:50
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
The first beer I had to use a corkscrew to open. Also don't like to see the green bottle. Aroma is strong with sour raspbery. Light pink color, similar to cranbery juice. Flavor begins sweet, then sour raspberry. Finish of yeast and surprisingly some tobacco.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Aug 2003
at 11:19
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Just like the real gueuze Josh and myself seemed to have shared intercontinentally, De Troch used to make real kriek. AFAIK it is not made anymore. However - beerbars as Kulminator will still have it in stock. Similar label to the gueuze, red lettering. Mind you - only commercialism prevents Jos Raes to start tomorrow with this thing again. Brown-red-orange, clear beer (yeast all sticking to the bottle). Pink-brownish head, fast gone. Outspoken acidy nose. Fruity, but not outspoken cherries. Wood and woodstripper, esters too. Slight (decaying)cork smell. Restrained, but honest fruittaste, more openly cherry, but also strawberry, green apples, lemon, even pink grapefruit. Very woody, tannine-rich base. Strangely enough, the sourness is subdued and very agreable, like redcurrant lagered on oak. Slight smokey flavour retronasal - I suspect saccharine. Mouthfeel reasonably (fruit)chewy. Extremely refreshing. The first times I went around the brewery, I had to beg for this thing, kept in the most remote cellar, sold only locally and to some beerpubs. Only after long negations, they got convinced I really wanted the stuff. Madness! it is a GREAT kriek, immensely complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2003
at 12:32