Oude Geuze Goût Américain

Lambic - Gueuze

You may or may not have seen this recently; either way I'd still like to let you know there's a new Oude Geuze we've made with Mikkeller! In this case this geuze is more of a wink and nudge towards the american tries/experiments of our beloved lambic. These tries, resulting in interesting and nice bottles of beer, but also very often resulting in beers that we find to tend more towards malt vinegar, seem to be liked by a lot of people even with the enormously high acetic acidity, and mostly by Americans. When we made a more acetic Oude Geuze (the VAT 108) to put in our Discovery Box, many people loved it, but it seems many Americans still found it not sour enough. But no, we didn't decide to make something even more sour. We care what Belgians like to drink, we will listen to the Belgian taste pallet, so we DON'T want to make malt vinegar. No one wants to drink salad dressing.. (in Belgium at least). On the other hand this reminded us of an old habit that some producers of Champagne had. Batches that turned out more sour were labeled "Goût Americain" (American Taste) and some also were marked "Goût Russe" etc. and were then sold in those markets. With all this, we had an idea to make a beer, not necessarily to be sour, but more to put into perspective the appreciations of certain tastes. And this is a topic we've talked about with Mikkeller many times before which is how this became the basis for a new collab. To us acetic sting (as we like to call it; "piqûre acétique" in French) is an off-flavour. But it seems it is an acquired taste for other people (in this case more so the American part of the world). So don't expect enormous amounts of sour because of course we're not going to let anything leave the brewery that we don't like ourselves. But what you taste is a nice complex, balanced Oude Geuze with acetic acidty that is already way above the level we normally prefer and what we'd easily at our brewery unofficially label as "american taste". At the same time it's still relatively mild compared to other beers, but it is only to show that we don't believe acetic acidty should have such a huge role in these beers. It is nice to add a small barrel with "neig" (lambic with acetic sting) to a large blend to give some depth (a bit like using salt and pepper in the kitchen). But it should not be a dominating taste in the beer. All the stories of irregular bowel movements and the enamel of teeth coming off is not what a properly made lambic beer should have as result.

ABV

6.5

Rating

3.82

Rating count

7,674

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3.5

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about 3 years ago

pascal van der beek

3.5

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about 3 years ago

Hans-a Sakrihei Kleven

3.5

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about 3 years ago

3.5

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almost 3 years ago

Backlog

3.5

almost 3 years ago

3.5

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almost 3 years ago

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almost 3 years ago

Alexander Arvidsson

3.5

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almost 3 years ago

3.5

Cosmic Comic Cafe

over 2 years ago

Olli Matikainen

3.5

Cosmic Comic Cafe

over 2 years ago

Ca manque de punch, plutot fade comme lambic

3.5

Tompick’s Brew & Cigar Lounge

over 2 years ago

Mads Krogsgaard

Sidste specialøl længe og en syrlig en af slagsen. Klassisk geuze, men måske med mere fokus på syrlighed fremfor funk. Det skriver de i hvert fald selv. Den sidder også lang tid på tænderne. Forfriskende med ret høj karbonering. Fin klar farve. Lidt funk.

3.5

Mikkeller CPH Airport

over 2 years ago

Louisa Kotlarzewski

3.5

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over 2 years ago

Rickard Gunnarsson

3.5

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3.5

over 2 years ago

Geir Einar Gundersen

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over 2 years ago

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over 2 years ago

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Drankenhandel Daems

over 2 years ago

William Henning Benzon

3.5

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Gajan Sivarajah

Seems like it’s settled from something overly ripe/acidic. Quite low on the funk/apple given but an easy drinking effort.

3.5

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Svein Oskar Mækk Karsten Bergsaune

Hadde noget høyere forhåpninger til denne. Men for all mulig del.

3.5

Storholmen v/Hosøybrua

over 2 years ago

3.5

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over 2 years ago

Abbelsaftschorsch

3.5

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about 2 years ago

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about 2 years ago

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about 2 years ago

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Magnus Mejlgaard

3.5

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Søren Horsbøll

3.5

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about 2 years ago

3.5

Bella Center st. (Metro)

about 2 years ago

3.5

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Martin Rasmussen

3.5

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about 2 years ago

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Caillou et Winnie

about 2 years ago

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Sour but quite light. Not a bad flavour

3.5

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Marcus Eriksson

3.5

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Jesper Fabricius

3.5

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Anders Märcher

3.5

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almost 2 years ago

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Smukt øl med flot let skum. Virkelig smæk på syren, på den gode måde.

3.5

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Pietro Bronzino

late

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Maniero Argentino

almost 2 years ago

Emilie Zachariasen

3.5

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Christoffer Hvammen

Syrlig eik. Nydelig.

3.5

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Nicke Anckarman

3.5

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almost 2 years ago

Tangy. Growing on me. My first foray into this type of beer…

3.5

Busselton Villa

almost 2 years ago

Jacob Willersrud

3.5

Jærvhølet Nanobryggeri

almost 2 years ago

Mikkel Frederiksen

3.5

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almost 2 years ago

Asbjorn Bjornetun

Ein sur djævel dette her, hoiii

3.5

Bydel Tjuvholmen

almost 2 years ago

3.5

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over 1 year ago

Johan Van Opstal

3.5

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Steffen Greisen

3.5

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Christian Bay Greisen

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Thomas Diechmann

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Manne Bergström

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Funky, accurate, not excessively sour as I was fearing. Loads of yeast

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Michael Vaisman

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Glen De Scheerder

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over 5 years ago

3.75

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about 5 years ago

Vincent Pihlblad

Trevlig ändå, funky saltvatten.

3.75

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about 5 years ago

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Micael Klefberg

3.75

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Met tarwe, daardoor wat zachter.

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Zuur, maar ook zacht door de tarwe. Mist het hout van de black label

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Dempa Dahlström

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about 5 years ago

More than nice sour. Long story... it is still nice. Sour geeks choice

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Vladimir Gojkovic

My very first gueuze. I have to say I'm a bit put off by the barnyard aftertaste. Otherwise typical lambic greatness.

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Martin Kjellstrand

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