Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Aroma is everywhere in the room, strong. Sour green apples for me. Taste is a snap of sour you really have to get used to. Likewise aftertaste, but I like it. (Brussels 201405)

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

Shared this with my wife at Staminee De Garre, a beautiful, secluded beer bar hidden in an alleyway in Brugges. Pours a hazey cloudy orange colour with a fairly large white head. Aroma is tart cherry, lemongrass and yeast notes. Taste is funky. Peaches and funk! Definitely some fuzzy peach and apricot notes. Really beautiful taste.

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

Out of the bottle at a festival. Classic example and an exceptional palate cleanser. Very tart and sour, but not too much mustiness. Dry and tickling to the senses. Yeasty with soured malt and funky fruits.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Sampled on cask at the Gingerman, NYC. Pours dark copper with a faint haze and no head. Wild cherry and barnyard aroma. Lots of horse blanket. Good and funky! Quite sour and fruity with more brett funk. Faint bready caramel malt character is overwhelmd b the yeast and bacteria funk. Medium-bodied and hardly carbonated, which is like true result of the serving type. Interesting beer.

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

Bottle from Knightly Spirits. Bright light orange color, thin head but some foam remains on top until the last drop. A few whisps of lacing. This is sour and puckery, light fruits; lemons, grapefruit, peaches, funk and some barrel notes. A mild burn in the senses. Drinkable for the style. Very nice. If there’s such a thing as a bargain Gueze this might be it.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 4

Yeow. I guess this is just not my style. To say it is sour is an understatement. Apparently I am just not ready for it. So rather than blame it on the beer, I will blame it on myself. Personally I think I could make a better beer by brewing sweet tarts and alum.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 7

Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you’d step over your own mother just to get one! But you can’t stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!

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

Hazy nutbrown colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is sweet & sour and weak fruity. The flavour is dry and sour fruits abit yeast also. A real dry and sour lambic. Sour long aftertaste with some dark and dry fruity hints. Totally awesome.

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

Another beer at my brothers house the eve before Christmas Eve. This one was the final beer of the evening (okay, so we moved on to Celebration after this..) but after talking it up to my family about the experience in drinking a gueuze, they were ready. Aroma was funky with green apples, hay, funk, leather and cheese. I did find this much more fruity than expected. Appearance was hazy with a yellowish/orange color, normal head. Flavors were acidic, tart, fruity, funky, and leather all wrapped around a citric lemony background. No sweetness here with a nice dry finish. Glad I shared this with my family as there is no way I could drink a 750ml of this. It's good but just sooooo hard to drink more than 8-10 ounces.

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

Pous a very cloudy, opaque yellow/hay amber color. The head is respectable within style, although no lacing. The aroma is tart lemons, some barnyard. The flavor is all brett, lemons, some leather, some horseblankets, some barnyard. After it warms, a little bit more of the burnt rubber flavors in there with some acetic (vinegar) type flavors. Not as complex as I'd have assumed (I personally like the cheesy aspects), but refreshing, crisp, tart, and sour. Mouthfeel is certainly acidic. A little on the harsh side for a blended gueuze (almost came across as a straight lambic).