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.

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6.5

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Teemu

Eka maistamani oude geuze, joten vertailukohtaa ei ole. Erittäin hapan ja hapokas, mutta on sieltä myös hedelmää löydettävissä. Hieman metallinen sivumaku. Aivan hyvä.

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David P.

This is lovely great balance of sour and fruity smoothness

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Kris De Meester

BE-DK gueuze connection!

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Bart Vanhommerig

Superdorstlessende geuze met een prachtig kleurtje en een mooie fruitigheid. Hele fijne blend van 1, 2 en 3 jaar oude lambic. Prima biertje voor op de eerste lentedag van het jaar. Omnomnomnom!

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Vinny De Sniffer

75cl. Alc.6,5 % vol. Beetje zurig maar valt nog goed mee.

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Joshua Smock

Really nice. I wish it was a bit more funky but otherwise 💯

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Pavel Maslov

Забытые чекины. Спасибо Dmitriy B. Приятный базовый гёз, медовый, с лёгкими летучими молекулами козьих говн, более тяжелые не долетели.

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dyon schlebos

Paardendeken en hooi in de neus, flinke acidity aan het begin en heerlijk frisse citrus en Granny Smith, maar vrij dunne afdronk. Zelfs een beetje waterig. Ik ben verwend

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Jenny O.

Testade båda flaskorna och den ena smakade mycket mer metalliskt medan den andra var riktigt funky.

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Kieran Atter

From last night. Lovely and sour.

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Josee Desjardins

Je travaille fort ça soir...

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Pablo Cavalera

Бунщина. Кисло сладко горько вонько.

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Franz Neumann

Part of the Mikkeller Christmas Calendar 2020

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Bjørn Mikladal

Yellow apples, green apples and fresh oak. Nice rounded tart mouthfeel. Nice geuze.

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Philippe Grimard

Bien balancé, léger sour. Une bonne

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jeremie labbe

minerale, leger sour, citronné, pomme, c'est bien bon! fesait longtemps j'avais pas bu du lambic! fait du bien!

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Martti Jakobsson

Luukku #18

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Jeppe Severinsen

Geuze er altid en oplevelse, og den her er ingen undtagelse. Ikke en bred smagsoplevelse, men høj kvalitet!

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Nick Oudshoorn

#17 The Great Mikkeller X-Mas Calendar. Bottleshare. Hele mooie colab met Boon!

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Mikael B.

On special bar round a special night a bottle of fruity IPA and a bottle of champagne ended up in bed together. This is the result of that night. It ended up with most the flavours from the champagne, the fruits sweetness takes some time to come forward.

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#achja

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Tom Croes

Aangenaam zuurtje, fruitig. Ruikt een beetje naar gras / platteland. Fles 2019.

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Rick Vd Ven

2019!!! Abv 6.5% Helder van kleur, geur: Soury, champagne, wild, gras, stal. Smaak: Complex, grassig, licht tarty, wild:), ietwat soury!

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