Hanssens Oude Gueuze

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

Caged and corked 750mL bottle that has a year or two of shelf age on it, pours with a gold body that has a bit of a haze to and supports a dirty white head. The aroma offers up typical Gueuze sort of soft lime, tarter notes and then thin spicy oak, a bit of soured sort of vinegar and some sweetened lime at the end of the draw. The taste is tart and near puckering with soured sweetened vinegar and lime flowing into some thin spicy oakiness. This produces pleasing depth and refreshment somehow at the same time. Solid.

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

Bottle shared at Sub Zero
Hazy amber with a small off-white head, some lacing. Aroma is tart and fruity. Taste is fruity up front then tart with a dry finish
Well balanced and easy to drink.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

Now this is a perfect example of what I consider to be beer. Big, bad, and stimulating! Impressions start with the chapagne bottle then follows with an unrefined backstall aroma that cannot be described. Big fermenting fruit from an old open barrel in the barn. Looks like a cloudy american lager or darker wheat. Really nice creamy carbonation. Oh my, what a taste impact! Not girlie sweet in any way though wonderfully tart. Hides the alky content rather well, it’s more like drinking rotting fermenting something, but in an enjoyable way. Just plain easy to drink and fun to be with. DEE LISH! Finish is a quarky mackentosh fruit peel quagmire.

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

From a shared bottle at RBNG-14. Pours slightly hazy orange with a minimal head. Sour and funky with lovely yeasty notes. Niceand refreshingly sour. Delicious stuff! (2014-02-15 - Grand Tasting, Fredriksten festning, Halden)

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.