2015 Brouwerij Boon Oude Geuze Black Label

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  12/2/2016 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  A commemorative gueuze blended to be slightly drier than normal Boon gueuzes, best before 27th of March, 2035.
  
  Cloudy almond yellow color with a very big and frothy white head. Very sharp, sour and dirty nose with positively anattractive aromas of leather, ammonia, green apples and stables. Medium-bodied and practically bone dry on the palate with very pronounced sourness and, counterintuitively, a hint of fruity sweetness. Very sharp, tart and complex flavors of lemon, ammonia (think of cooking kidneys), some leather, a little bit of herbal bitterness (like rocket leaves), a hint of earthiness and a hint of bretty vanilla aromatics. The carbonation feels very small with fine bubbles, yet with sharp, tingly intensity. The finish is surprisingly bitter for a gueuze with very sharp, even a bit too hard lime-like sourness and complex, dirty flavors of leather, earth, some lemony citrus fruits and a hint of grassy, herbal bitterness. The aftertaste feels quite rough, hard and austere for a lambic.
  
  This is a very dry and hard gueuze with more noticeable complexity if compared to a regular Boon bottling with very sharp sourness that combined with the slightly higher-than-normal bitterness feels even a bit too hard and angular. Although attractive and impressive, the beer feels quite a bit too aggressive and sharp at times - a thing I normally wouldn't say when discussing lambics. Perhaps aging this beer would help a little? Impressive and tasty effort, but not among the most balanced ones - I prefer Mariage parfait over this one. Nevertheless, I probably should return to this in the future.

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