Girardin Gueuze Black Label

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Finally rated Aug. 2011. Pours hazy deep gold with thin off white head. The aroma is fruity and tart with pleasing stale funky dry moldy citrus rind that really pulls it together. The taste is similar with tartness and acidity that struggle to take over the flavor but smooth bold yummy moldy citrus funky earthiness will not give in. I’m not a fan of over tart acidic crushed aspirin beer but when there’s a good deal of mold, funk, body odor, wet horse hair and the like then I’m happy. This refreshing beer makes me happy.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Light golden yellow with white foam head lacing to glass. Aroma unfolds after the plop when opening the bottle. Apples. Taste initially bit sour, but then unfolds aroma of green unripe sour fruit, apple, pear. Dry. (Velp 201303)

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

375 ml corked and caged bottle. Poured an unfiltered copper-brown coloured Geuze with a short one finger beige foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. No carbonation. Poor lacing. The aroma is powerful sourish fruits, apples, lime, barnyard notes. The flavour is rich and complex, yeast, sourish-tarty fruits, lemon, grapefruits, green apples and very well balanced. The mouthfeel is a nice invasion of splendid lambic. This medium bodied Gueuze has a dry sourish-tarty finish. May be a quintessence of the lambic blending science. Overall a delightful refreshing Gueuze.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

At Copenhagen Beer Festival. Hazy golden colour, sparkling. Decent aroma of brettanomyces (sour fruit, farmhouse, horse blanket), but not extreme. The medium sour flavour has also the typical brettanomyces character, but fairly well balanced and not too extreme. Should work well as a beginner’s gueuze.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I had to let this warm a bit to "get it". My first sip was more like bile than anything else. But, I have been liking the sour stuff more and more. Pours dark yellow, not much of a head. No fizz. Aroma, moth and taste are all acidic and about as sour as it gets. However, as it warms the intended notes come through. Earth, grass, vinegar, fruit. Anyways, it's certainly balanced in this manner.

Aroma: 2 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

If you would like to try this beer, just throw a blanket on the back of a horse. Top it with a saddle and ride for about a week. Then throw the dirty blanket in an old wooden bucket. Piss in the bucket now and again when you think about it. When it is full of piss, place it in the back of a barn (preferably in a place near cow excrement)for at least a year. When you are ready, squeeze a lemon in the bucket, strain through another dirthy horseblanket and enjoy!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

It pours a bubbly, hazy burnt-orange/amber with puffy off-white head and some lace. An aroma of rich malts, hops, bitterness, orange and lemon, apple, light nuttiness, and light pepper. The mouthfeel is smooth and rich. Flavors of sour malts, light hops, apple crisp, lemon, and light spices. Different and definitely the most tart beer I've ever had...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

cork: x0206 .. drank late in the first quarter of 2009 .. . woooweee! huge crazy smell, from wood, malt vinegar, sourness, etc... . huge tartness to this brew.. . the lord works in mysterious ways! .. . very refreshing and razor cut clean! .. . carpe diem! .. . beautifully balanced! no thing seems out of place! .. . that’s what i call a beer! Wishlist cross off.. originally put on:5/24/2006

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

A slightly hazy amber-orange pour with a massive white head leaving some lacing. Highly carbonated. Aroma is sour and tart apples and slight vinegar with some sharp acid and yeastiness. Taste is TART and sour with same slight acidity and hint of vinegar then some funky fruity sweetness in the end. Very interesting concoction - glad I tried it.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle from Knightly. Funky aroma with whiffs of cherry, barnyard, horseblankets. Overall a musty scent which is nice. Bright orange-gold color with a huge fluffy off-white head. A ton of lacing left behind that scatters all over the glass. This is tart, sour and a bit sharp which leaves a nice mild tingle on the senses. Flavors are lots of funk, with peaches, cherries and grapefruit. The sweetness of the beer is countered nicely by a dry numbing. Insanely drinkable while still being intense. I dig this and I’m starting to dig the style a lot more too.