Girardin Gueuze Black Label

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

(Vintage x0109) Nice petite pop to the cork. About a 1/4 inch thick head with medium sized bubbles. Body is orange marmelaide colored, filled with floating stuff throughout the glass. Aromas of well worn shoe leather. Flavor explodes in your mouth. Tons of sourness (lactobacilis?) akin to unripe Kiwi with that underlaying shoe leather. Most definately a sipping beer to enjoy for several minutes. For anyone that really enjoys this type of beer, this is a classic. For anyone that likes "normal" beers and are affraid to try out of the ordinary things, you’re going to freak after trying this one. :-)

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

Bottle shared by Arve_Christian - Thanks! Pours deep golden with a white head. Acidic aroma with barnyard, fruit, citrus, malt and hints of spices and wood. Fruity with a delicious souness and acidity. Deliciously refreshing - a very nice gueuze! (2012-07-27)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Small offwhite head, good retention, thin laceing. Hazy gold color with a neat orange glow. Thin film of lace lingering on top. Subdued nose of apples, wet lumber and leather. Med/light body, prickly carbonation. Mellow woody flavors, vinous notes, fruity. Sourness and acidity are just right, good yeast flavors. Everything works very well together, a nice blend. A top notch Gueuze IMHO. Smooooth and mellow, nice bite, tangy dry finish easy to drink. Wish the bottle was bigger! Thanks to captcougar for this one!

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...