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Girardin Gueuze 1882 (Black Label)
Brouwerij Girardin
- From:
- Brouwerij Girardin
- Belgium
- Style:
- Gueuze
Ranked #19 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 95
Ranked #1,386 - Avg:
- 4.29 | pDev: 9.32%
- Reviews:
- 581
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 07, 2024
- Added:
- Sep 28, 2002
- Wants:
- 237
- Gots:
- 164
Unfiltered version.
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Reviewed by Snowcrash000 from Germany
4.36/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Pours a slightly cloudy, deep, dark amber coloration with a small, fizzy head. Smells of slightly doughy, caramelly malt and estery fruits, with notes of red apple, apricot and gooseberry, as well as hints of hay, spice, funk and oak. Taste is a great balance of slightly doughy and caramelly malt and rich notes of estery fruit and lighter spice, with notes of red apple, apricot, gooseberry, clove and peppery spice, as well as some musty funk and slightly tannic oak. Finished with a medium tartness and some estery fruit and spice, as well as musty fubnk and oak lingering in the aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel with a medium body and carbontion.
While this stands on its own very well, it certainly is by far the best value for money I ever encountered when it comes to Gueuze, although your mileage may vary. I paid 4€ for this 375ml bottle and honestly enjoyed it better than some more established and expensive examples of the style. It's a bit more malt-forward than your average Gueuze, which is not a bad thing at all in my book, while being quite funky, with a certain musty, leathery quality to it. The esters are coming through nicely as well, quite fruity, with hints of spice, while are also some tannic, oaky accents to this. Overall, this makes for a very nice, quite funky and estery Gueuze that feels rich and well-balanced.
Dec 11, 2022While this stands on its own very well, it certainly is by far the best value for money I ever encountered when it comes to Gueuze, although your mileage may vary. I paid 4€ for this 375ml bottle and honestly enjoyed it better than some more established and expensive examples of the style. It's a bit more malt-forward than your average Gueuze, which is not a bad thing at all in my book, while being quite funky, with a certain musty, leathery quality to it. The esters are coming through nicely as well, quite fruity, with hints of spice, while are also some tannic, oaky accents to this. Overall, this makes for a very nice, quite funky and estery Gueuze that feels rich and well-balanced.
Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania
3.85/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
375ml bottle into a tulip. 2014 vintage.
Looks okay in the glass. Dull burnt orange body, on the hazy side. Brief bubbly head, but this quickly dies out, no lacing.
No getting anything on the nose, good or bad.
On tasting, all the elements are there, a little funk, sour, faintly tart, some bitterness, underlying fruit. However, the combination is a little bias towards bitter sour.
Mouth between medium and full, finish dry sour bitterness.
Overall, had hoped for better. There was some brownish goo around the cork, so perhaps something was off?
Jul 31, 2022Looks okay in the glass. Dull burnt orange body, on the hazy side. Brief bubbly head, but this quickly dies out, no lacing.
No getting anything on the nose, good or bad.
On tasting, all the elements are there, a little funk, sour, faintly tart, some bitterness, underlying fruit. However, the combination is a little bias towards bitter sour.
Mouth between medium and full, finish dry sour bitterness.
Overall, had hoped for better. There was some brownish goo around the cork, so perhaps something was off?
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
4.79/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.79/5 rDev +11.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Displaying beautiful gradients of foggy amber under a dense khaki head that slowly settles to a persistent blanket and unevenly curled collar, I can tell this pour at the renowned Avenue Pub of New Orleans is going to be a wonderful one.
Delicious qualities of toasted sesame seed and oaky funk meet the dichotomously attractive attributes of skunky aged hops. It's just super fluffy, just as the old lady described it, developing a sort of peach-grapefruit note as I dig in. Further on, as it warms, we also detect a touch of pepper and golden raisin.
The full, fluffy yet airy body delicately glides to a semi-dry finish.
I wish I had more time and room in my stomach for a few more of these.
Nov 17, 2021Delicious qualities of toasted sesame seed and oaky funk meet the dichotomously attractive attributes of skunky aged hops. It's just super fluffy, just as the old lady described it, developing a sort of peach-grapefruit note as I dig in. Further on, as it warms, we also detect a touch of pepper and golden raisin.
The full, fluffy yet airy body delicately glides to a semi-dry finish.
I wish I had more time and room in my stomach for a few more of these.
Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine
4.34/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.34/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A: Pours a golden orange copper color with 2 fingers of head that quickly fades down to a tight, thin cap that has remarkably good retention
S: A good bit of funk and tartness up front along with some fruity notes such as apple, pear, and white grape
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with a mix of funky tart notes, fruit, and wood. A bit of some earthy mineral qualities as well. Finishes with lingering funk, fruit, and earth
M: Medium bodied with moderate, tight carbonation
O: A classic gueuze that lives up to the name. Definitely not the most funky or tart that I’ve had, but it allows for the other qualities to shine a bit. Worth checking out if you’re into the style
Oct 06, 2021S: A good bit of funk and tartness up front along with some fruity notes such as apple, pear, and white grape
T: Follows the nose. Starts off with a mix of funky tart notes, fruit, and wood. A bit of some earthy mineral qualities as well. Finishes with lingering funk, fruit, and earth
M: Medium bodied with moderate, tight carbonation
O: A classic gueuze that lives up to the name. Definitely not the most funky or tart that I’ve had, but it allows for the other qualities to shine a bit. Worth checking out if you’re into the style
Reviewed by kevanb from Illinois
4.03/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
375ml bottle, 2020 on the cork, no discernible date on the label, poured into a Tilquin Gueze tumbler glass.
The beer pours a hazy copper color, amber hues with a few bubbles rising to the top of glass where a finger of off-white head rests, moderate retention with no significant lacing. The aroma is nice, pleasant funk, earthy, grassy, lightly floral with a nice berry fruit quality and some pale grain and mineral water. The flavors are nice, lots of earthy funk, grassy, floral, dry dead leaves, mild barnyard qualities, mineral water, cereal grains and a nice bright fruit quality, berries and tart pitted stone fruits. The mouthfeel is good, coating and very lively, crisp medium body that has a nice heft and a tart and dry finish.
Verdict: A nice Gueuze from Girardin. Lots of nice funk, pleasantly tart and offering a complex spectrum of flavors.
May 21, 2021The beer pours a hazy copper color, amber hues with a few bubbles rising to the top of glass where a finger of off-white head rests, moderate retention with no significant lacing. The aroma is nice, pleasant funk, earthy, grassy, lightly floral with a nice berry fruit quality and some pale grain and mineral water. The flavors are nice, lots of earthy funk, grassy, floral, dry dead leaves, mild barnyard qualities, mineral water, cereal grains and a nice bright fruit quality, berries and tart pitted stone fruits. The mouthfeel is good, coating and very lively, crisp medium body that has a nice heft and a tart and dry finish.
Verdict: A nice Gueuze from Girardin. Lots of nice funk, pleasantly tart and offering a complex spectrum of flavors.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.85/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -10.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Rerate, 750 ml green "champagne" bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 5%. Deep golden to orange colour, moderate white head. Sourer and even more complex flavour than noted upon first sample. Tart finish, some bitterness. Original rating: At Copenhagen Beer Festival. Hazy golden colour, sparkling. Decent aroma of brettanomyces (sour fruit, farmhouse, horse blanket), but not extreme. The medium sour flavour has also the typical brettanomyces character, but fairly well balanced and not too extreme. Should work well as a beginner’s gueuze.
Mar 19, 2021
Girardin Gueuze 1882 (Black Label) from Brouwerij Girardin
Beer rating:
95 out of
100 with
1260 ratings
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