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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12 months ago

Det aller beste var vel at champagne korken dro av gårde. Slett ikke ille, men blir litt sært for meg.

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Smaker høy full av lagder på hes etter 7 dager i strekk med regn

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Sigve S Lærdal

En Geuze rett og slett

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Lasse Grundholm

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Handwerklich wahrscheinlich tiptop...geschmacklich wie immer nicht mein Fall.

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Mikkeller Xmas calendar 2020, day 18. Way too sour, almost vinegary taste. Brilliant label on the bottle though!

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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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Didn’t really enjoy this, quite watery and a bit bland.

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Sur omgang.. på den sure måde

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Dolf Jangrens Drukpumper!

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Jimmy Hedström

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Nej tack

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Thomas Bergström

Njaa, naae, nä!

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Lucka nr:18

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over 4 years ago

Inte min öltyp. #mikkellerchristmascalendar

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Meget bitter, meget fims

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Den er sur tænker den er fin nok men jeg er nok ikke voksen nok endnu 😊

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Neh

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Jannike Reinholdsson

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Opening van de vakantie 2021. Omg wat ongelofelijk zuur bijna niet door te komen.

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almost 4 years ago

Flot klar øl med fint hvidt skum. Dufter og smager som en kedelig sour uden nogen speciel smagsnote.

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Rancid piss

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Marc Lautrup-Jensen

Puha, en rigtig dårlig sour type..

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Fy for sat..

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Smager lowkey lidt af gammel prut

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Afonso Queirós

Not surprised this is for "american taste"

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6,5% Goose/Sour. Undskyld det er bare ikke mig - nej tak.

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DENNIS Vemmelund

Rigtig typisk sour og gooze duft. Smager af sur r..

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Geuze for the "american taste", according to Boon. Meaning stronger acetic acid hit. To each their own. Is it indeed quite a sharp and agressive geuze but not without qualities. Superb carbonation, barnyardy, oaky, tree sap, green apples, citrus and mint.

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Acidic and tart. Possibly the absolute opposite of what I look for in a beer. I'll just recuse myself from rating.

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Bondegård er jo hyggeligt, men nøj hvor er den sur!

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