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Oude Geuze Boon Black Label
Brouwerij Boon
- From:
- Brouwerij Boon
- Belgium
- Style:
- Gueuze
Ranked #28 - ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 94
Ranked #2,784 - Avg:
- 4.22 | pDev: 9%
- Reviews:
- 65
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 07, 2024
- Added:
- Nov 20, 2015
- Wants:
- 17
- Gots:
- 43
Issued in 2015 (Limited Edition), 2016 (Second Edition), 2017 (Edition No 3), 2017 (Edition No 4), 2018 (Edition No 5), and 2019 (Edition No 6).
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Ratings by jrfehon33:
Rated by jrfehon33 from Pennsylvania
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
May 08, 2017
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
May 08, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by wedge from North Carolina
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
SECOND EDITION
Bright, shining gold with a good head of white foam that settles to a creamy covering. Dusty flower petals, damp wood, lemon, and dried apricot in the nose. Crisp lemony citrus, woody spice, straw, sour apple, and peppercorn. Dry with a tart acidity. Pretty good overall - not overly astringent and has enough complexity to keep it interesting.
Sep 07, 2023Bright, shining gold with a good head of white foam that settles to a creamy covering. Dusty flower petals, damp wood, lemon, and dried apricot in the nose. Crisp lemony citrus, woody spice, straw, sour apple, and peppercorn. Dry with a tart acidity. Pretty good overall - not overly astringent and has enough complexity to keep it interesting.
Reviewed by C-Stockwell from Rhode Island
4.59/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.59/5 rDev +8.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Edition 6, Batch 13309
L: opaque orange or gold, yeast floating everywhere with the carbonation, excellent white head
S: raspberries, cherries, passion fruit, and port wine
T: deliciously sour, dry finish, like an acidic white wine
F: fine carbonation and good mouthfeel
If you blindfolded someone and asked them to taste this, they probably wouldn't identify this as beer, but rather as a wine or a mild cocktail. This simply surpasses my expectation for what a beer can do and should be. One of the best, if not the best, beers I've had.
May 02, 2023L: opaque orange or gold, yeast floating everywhere with the carbonation, excellent white head
S: raspberries, cherries, passion fruit, and port wine
T: deliciously sour, dry finish, like an acidic white wine
F: fine carbonation and good mouthfeel
If you blindfolded someone and asked them to taste this, they probably wouldn't identify this as beer, but rather as a wine or a mild cocktail. This simply surpasses my expectation for what a beer can do and should be. One of the best, if not the best, beers I've had.
Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington
4.19/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.19/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Poured from 750mL corked & caged bottle into my BeerAdvocate teku. This is Black Label edition #5, best before 11/15/2039.
Appearance: rich medium-golden hue with a lite dose of shimmery haze and a ton of effervescence. Head pours a couple fingers of frothy ivory foam and sticks around a good long time. Great!
Smell: sweet malt with a light dose of sour and a dash of funk. There's kind of like a "malt candy" thing going on here.
Taste: a little tiny bit sour and a bit funky up front, with a deeply earthy character overall. Malt is toasty and the funk and light sourness give kind of a loamy autumnal feeling. I'm into it.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a huge carbonation that is very creamy, though a bit ephemeral. Still, I love it.
Overall: just an absolutely solid beer. Could drink it all day.
Mar 01, 2023Appearance: rich medium-golden hue with a lite dose of shimmery haze and a ton of effervescence. Head pours a couple fingers of frothy ivory foam and sticks around a good long time. Great!
Smell: sweet malt with a light dose of sour and a dash of funk. There's kind of like a "malt candy" thing going on here.
Taste: a little tiny bit sour and a bit funky up front, with a deeply earthy character overall. Malt is toasty and the funk and light sourness give kind of a loamy autumnal feeling. I'm into it.
Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a huge carbonation that is very creamy, though a bit ephemeral. Still, I love it.
Overall: just an absolutely solid beer. Could drink it all day.
Reviewed by champ103 from Texas
4.36/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.36/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
A: Pours a hazy orange color. A noisy, spritzy, bubbly white head forms to about a finger. That recedes to a ring in a minute.
S: The nose is powerful and pungent. Ripe grapefruit and dried citrus peal. A musty and "funky" aroma that I love.
T: Oh, that pungent grapefruit is almost juicy up front with other citrus like components. That become wonderfully acidic and sour. Musty basement like funky again. A tiny amount of oak and vanilla. Finishes with just enough acidic bite. This is wonderful.
M/O: A medium body that is beautifully effervescent at first. Which becomes a bit softer as this breaths. The puckering acidity is perfect, and leaves a lingering dryness that just begs me to keep coming back for more. This is very drinkable.
Just an excellent example of an Oude Gueuze. This has all the flavors and characteristics you would want for the style. Though its also balanced, as the acidic sourness and funk never become the main show. Thats all I have to say, highly recommended.
Nov 24, 2022S: The nose is powerful and pungent. Ripe grapefruit and dried citrus peal. A musty and "funky" aroma that I love.
T: Oh, that pungent grapefruit is almost juicy up front with other citrus like components. That become wonderfully acidic and sour. Musty basement like funky again. A tiny amount of oak and vanilla. Finishes with just enough acidic bite. This is wonderful.
M/O: A medium body that is beautifully effervescent at first. Which becomes a bit softer as this breaths. The puckering acidity is perfect, and leaves a lingering dryness that just begs me to keep coming back for more. This is very drinkable.
Just an excellent example of an Oude Gueuze. This has all the flavors and characteristics you would want for the style. Though its also balanced, as the acidic sourness and funk never become the main show. Thats all I have to say, highly recommended.
Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
750ml bottle into a tulip. Best by 3/26/35.
Quite a lively pour, massive loose bubbly white head, easily replenished by the next pour. Dark golden amber body, slightly hazy, not much lacing.
Tart aroma, good oak, even a light smoke.
On tasting, very pleasing indeed. Tart, sour, some mixed fruit. Mellow oak flavor, very dry.
Mouth medium, finish a slightly tart dryness.
Overall, best gueuze so far. Could drink this anytime.
Aug 05, 2022Quite a lively pour, massive loose bubbly white head, easily replenished by the next pour. Dark golden amber body, slightly hazy, not much lacing.
Tart aroma, good oak, even a light smoke.
On tasting, very pleasing indeed. Tart, sour, some mixed fruit. Mellow oak flavor, very dry.
Mouth medium, finish a slightly tart dryness.
Overall, best gueuze so far. Could drink this anytime.
Rated by robotic_being from Illinois
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2nd Edition. Batch # 80901
Jul 21, 2022Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania
4.44/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.44/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Brouwerij Boon "Oude Geuze Boon Black Label Edition N°2"
750 ml dark green glass bottle, corked and caged. "Best before 30 03 2036" and sampled on 02 04 2022.
$17.99 @ The Beer Yard, Wayne, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: Labeled at 6.4% ABV. It's poured a clear deep golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of bright white foam. The aroma is fruity with apple, apricot, and dried orange & lemon peel but there's also some grainy malt, grass, dried hay, dusty earth, dried flowers, and a distant bit of cedar and dried pine needles. The flavor is grassy and straw-like, and fruity with apple, soft pear, and underlying lemon and nectarine. On the funkier side there's some wet leather, more cedar and oakiness, dusty dried earth, dull tobacco, metal, and a soft note of floral character that I'd describe as something like the smell of dried lilies. It's tart but not too tart, and it finishes dry and gently acidic as expected. As you work your way through the glass and it warms a bit different notes will linger. The mouthfeel is just a little bit fuller than most Geuze, clocking in at medium-light versus the usual light-medium. It's got a fine-bubbled, natural, and delicately zesty carbonation that softens as it warms in the mouth. I'm actually a little bit surprised by this because it is a little bit different than your standard geuze, or gueuze, however you want to spell it. I personally don't like it as much as the standard Geuze Boon but I appreciate that it is a finer, more balanced beer. I think that the Mariage Parfait is already a very well rounded and superbly balanced beer but this version is even more so.
Review #7,860
Apr 02, 2022750 ml dark green glass bottle, corked and caged. "Best before 30 03 2036" and sampled on 02 04 2022.
$17.99 @ The Beer Yard, Wayne, PA
Notes via stream of consciousness: Labeled at 6.4% ABV. It's poured a clear deep golden/amber colored body beneath a finger's width of bright white foam. The aroma is fruity with apple, apricot, and dried orange & lemon peel but there's also some grainy malt, grass, dried hay, dusty earth, dried flowers, and a distant bit of cedar and dried pine needles. The flavor is grassy and straw-like, and fruity with apple, soft pear, and underlying lemon and nectarine. On the funkier side there's some wet leather, more cedar and oakiness, dusty dried earth, dull tobacco, metal, and a soft note of floral character that I'd describe as something like the smell of dried lilies. It's tart but not too tart, and it finishes dry and gently acidic as expected. As you work your way through the glass and it warms a bit different notes will linger. The mouthfeel is just a little bit fuller than most Geuze, clocking in at medium-light versus the usual light-medium. It's got a fine-bubbled, natural, and delicately zesty carbonation that softens as it warms in the mouth. I'm actually a little bit surprised by this because it is a little bit different than your standard geuze, or gueuze, however you want to spell it. I personally don't like it as much as the standard Geuze Boon but I appreciate that it is a finer, more balanced beer. I think that the Mariage Parfait is already a very well rounded and superbly balanced beer but this version is even more so.
Review #7,860
Rated by Dutchcraftbeergeek from Netherlands
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Delicious!
Feb 15, 2022Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Good beer. Real good beer. I’m not sure if I would toss rocks at her window at midnight, but I’d shoot her an AM text just to say hey. All kinds of light, bright, and tart - get some, baby. Get some while the gettin’ is good.
Aug 09, 2021Reviewed by DefenCorps from Oregon
4.2/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Blend no 3, 2016 release?
A clear light orange with a dense white head with good retention and lacing this looks great. The nose is great. Bright, sharp, grapefruit, green apple, earth, mushroom, lemon. Funk. Lots of funk. Oak. The palate opens with a blend of bitter grapefruit, preserved lemon, quite a bit of funk with earth and dried mushroom. The high carbonation lends a mineral character. A light sharpness, a little bit like strawberry, is present. Drying, funky, sour on the finish. Lingering earth, dried mushroom. The high carbonation lends a unique acidity to the gueuze, but lightens the body a bitt too much for my liking. Allowing the carbonation to dissipate improves the experience but that's personal preference.
Jul 31, 2021A clear light orange with a dense white head with good retention and lacing this looks great. The nose is great. Bright, sharp, grapefruit, green apple, earth, mushroom, lemon. Funk. Lots of funk. Oak. The palate opens with a blend of bitter grapefruit, preserved lemon, quite a bit of funk with earth and dried mushroom. The high carbonation lends a mineral character. A light sharpness, a little bit like strawberry, is present. Drying, funky, sour on the finish. Lingering earth, dried mushroom. The high carbonation lends a unique acidity to the gueuze, but lightens the body a bitt too much for my liking. Allowing the carbonation to dissipate improves the experience but that's personal preference.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.7/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.7/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
750 ml corked & caged green bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 7%. Golden colour, large white head. Lovely aroma of brettanomyces / farmhouse, hints of lemons. The flavour is really bone dry, tart and astringent, with lemony notes. Noticeable hops.
May 13, 2021Reviewed by Foeder82 from Belgium
4.82/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
4.82/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75
Second edition (2016)
I'm not one to write long tasting notes.
This is a fantastic geuze from Boon.
Crisp, dry, apple-y, not too sour for a geuze but above all just a damn good geuze.
Sep 03, 2020I'm not one to write long tasting notes.
This is a fantastic geuze from Boon.
Crisp, dry, apple-y, not too sour for a geuze but above all just a damn good geuze.
Oude Geuze Boon Black Label from Brouwerij Boon
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