Gueuze beer

Ok. I thought I was pretty experienced in the world of beer, but I just had a bottle of Cantillon Gueuze Beer and I was wrong. This stuff tastes so strange and different from anything I've had before. I don't know if I like it or not. It's too fruity, I think. I usually like it dark a malty, but this is sour and fruity. Hmm.

Sour and fruity to me suggests

Lambics are nothing if not an acquired taste.

Mmm, inoculation with wild spores.

Welcome to the wonderfully open world of wild ales... probably my favorite genre of brew. Open fermentation with top fermenting yeasts. If you dig it... grab a flanders red if you can find one.

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:21 PM, goffer said:

Welcome to the wonderfully open world of wild ales... probably my favorite genre of brew. Open fermentation with top fermenting yeasts. If you dig it... grab a flanders red if you can find one.

This.

Also, are gueuze and lambic the same thing?

Sounds interesting. I'll try anything once.

It's very different, I feel that I appreciate it more if I approach it more like a wine than a beer.

One of my favorites!

Enticing color.

My god this looks delicious!

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:25 PM, verticalhold said:

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:21 PM, goffer said:

Welcome to the wonderfully open world of wild ales... probably my favorite genre of brew. Open fermentation with top fermenting yeasts. If you dig it... grab a flanders red if you can find one.

 

This.

 

Also, are gueuze and lambic the same thing?

Not really the same thing... lambic refers to the type of yeasts these beers use and the way they ferment.... usually open.

  On 8/23/2010 at 11:39 PM, goffer said:

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:25 PM, verticalhold said:

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:21 PM, goffer said:

Welcome to the wonderfully open world of wild ales... probably my favorite genre of brew. Open fermentation with top fermenting yeasts. If you dig it... grab a flanders red if you can find one.

 

This.

 

Also, are gueuze and lambic the same thing?

Not really the same thing... lambic refers to the type of yeasts these beers use and the way they ferment.... usually open.

Ooooh. Fuck this shit, going to liquor store. Trying my first canadian beer

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:37 PM, Superstix said:

One of my favorites!

 

I can't stand these... they are overbearing and hide everything that makes it a beer. They don't seem to have a backbone.

  On 8/23/2010 at 11:39 PM, goffer said:

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:25 PM, verticalhold said:

  On 8/23/2010 at 10:21 PM, goffer said:

Welcome to the wonderfully open world of wild ales... probably my favorite genre of brew. Open fermentation with top fermenting yeasts. If you dig it... grab a flanders red if you can find one.

 

This.

 

Also, are gueuze and lambic the same thing?

Not really the same thing... lambic refers to the type of yeasts these beers use and the way they ferment.... usually open.

Gueuze is blend of young and old (2-3 year) lambics, bottled for secondary fermentation.

my wife loves kasteel red, dunno if it is considered in the same class

Get your tart's drinks out of this thread.

There are other gueuzes out there, but Cantillon is a very good one. Not sure what bottle that is, in the UK the label is a small boy pissing. Boon Gueuze is fairly easy to pick up outside Belgium, but it's really inconsistent, however with the right bottle it's even more gueuze-y than Cantillon.

edit: I meant tart's drink in the generic sense, I wasn't calling your wife a tart.

  On 8/24/2010 at 2:01 AM, kakapo said:

edit: I meant tart's drink in the generic sense, I wasn't calling your wife a tart.

lol

  On 8/24/2010 at 2:01 AM, kakapo said:

Get your tart's drinks out of this thread.

 

There are other gueuzes out there, but Cantillon is a very good one. Not sure what bottle that is, in the UK the label is a small boy pissing. Boon Gueuze is fairly easy to pick up outside Belgium, but it's really inconsistent, however with the right bottle it's even more gueuze-y than Cantillon.

 

edit: I meant tart's drink in the generic sense, I wasn't calling your wife a tart.

Yeah, it's just a different looking label. My bottle was from 2008.

GIRARDIN also makes a mean gueuze...drink straight out of fridge in hot weather!

Some sour beers (like Ommegang 'Zuur') or fruity beers (like the new, peach-flavored Dogfish Head) are just way too sour for me; I can't even enjoy a whole glass without puckering up like your little brother's anus before I pounded him face-first into his eleventh birthday cake. This might be because what I like in beer is a lot of intense, smoky & roasted malt sweetness and bitter hops.

But I did try Bockor's Cuvée des Jacobins, and it was fucking sexy -- like if Monica Bellucci's pussy were a beer. Fuck. -- anything else like that you would recommend?

hay gueuze!

  On 8/24/2010 at 5:07 PM, Ominous said:

hay gueuze!

That's what I think every time I see Gueuze.

Drinking one of these now, very smooth - silky. I wish it was maltier and a tad more bitter. Still, it's VERY good.

And I've got a blue Chimay lined up next.