Belle Vue Gueuze
Brasserie Belle-Vue

Belle Vue GueuzeBelle Vue Gueuze
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From:
Brasserie Belle-Vue
 
Belgium
Style:
Gueuze
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
73
Avg:
3.14 | pDev: 21.02%
Reviews:
56
Ratings:
118
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 02, 2022
Added:
Aug 08, 2002
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  16
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Ratings by jakemn91:
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Rated by jakemn91 from New Mexico

3.89/5  rDev +23.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Poured from bottle. Sweeter than most gueuzes. Only mildly tart. Faint maltiness. Overall enjoyable.
Apr 19, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.45 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Mar 02, 2022
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Reviewed by mynie from Maryland

4.17/5  rDev +32.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
8 oz bottle imported from Belgium. Best by 17/07/21. Uhh... typo much, guys? There's no 17th month.

The pour is dark for the style: a lovely, filtered nut brown with a nice white head.

Aroma is light for a gueuze grainy, biscuity, with some mild yeast sharpness. It's pleasant and delicately brewed.

Flavor is likewise not what I was expecting but still quite nice. A mix of bready grain and lightly sour, fruity yeast up front, smoothing out into pleasantly sweet back end and finish.

A good beer overall but I can't help but think it might have been better--or at least bolder--if it were a bit more fresh.
Feb 23, 2021
 
Rated: 2.65 by DvdP from Netherlands

Oct 11, 2020
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Rated by Foeder82 from Belgium

1.3/5  rDev -58.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1
As a geuze lover from Belgium, it's sad to still find this in café's everywhere.
It's not a very good beer and it sure as hell is not a geuze.
Sep 03, 2020
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Reviewed by Steve555 from Wales

2.8/5  rDev -10.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Amber with a small head, quite high carbonation. Aroma is quite sweet. Taste is sweet and has an artificial feel about it. Finish is dry and not that sour and a bit cloying with the effervescence . I found it hard to drink. I would not recommend over others in the style like Oude Boon Gueze or Cantillon, then again it is a lot cheaper.

Fun Fact - The founders of Belle Vue are the same family who own Anderlecht football club. Arguably the best football team to come out of Belgium.
Aug 04, 2020
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Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois

1.61/5  rDev -48.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.25 | taste: 1.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
BBD: 21/08/20 (Euro date format is Day/Month/Year) Belle-Vue brewery is a subsidiary of AB-InBev.
Ingredients: Water, Malt, Wheat, Sugar, Hops, "Flavoring", Orange Peel, Coriander.

Sweetened, filtered, industrial saccharine trash. Belle-Vue doesn't brew using spontaneous fermentation, and it shows. This is about as fake as fake lambic gets.

Dull lifeless amber color, some rising carb trails. Poured it directly down the middle and it resulted in a long lasting head of creamy foam, with lots of sticky lacing. The head looks nice, but that's the only good thing about it. Smells like soggy grains, sweet cereal, a vague impression of acidic stomach bile.

Tastes like watery sweet iced tea with an aftertaste of rotted grains. It resembles a poorly-made industrial Euro lager, with artificial sweetener dumped in. Feels flabby and dull, slick and astringent with an oddly jarring fake sweetness and feeble tartness that is barely there. Very unbalanced and just plain gross. This is just awful, and the worst "lambic" i've had the pleasure of tasting.

I thought all the bad reviews were maybe exaggerated, but they were right on the money. Flat out, this is poorly made with poor quality ingredients, resulting in cheap industrial swill. It's blasphemous to call it lambic, which by definition requires spontaneous fermentation, which there's no documented evidence of at Belle-Vue. As a result it has zero character. I truly question the judgement and sanity of anyone praising this as high quality, it's truly bottom of the barrel, without touching any actual barrels. More like a yellow puddle next to a barrel.

Storytime, TL;DR ahead...
Belle-Vue has a very checkered past, notorious for buying up and closing numerous small lambic brewers in the 20th century, and flooding the market with saccharine factory-made pseudo-lambic such as this. Through these practices fueled by greed and questionable ethics, they played a large part in destroying the legacy of traditional lambic, which is only now beginning to recover decades later.

Recently it came to light that Constant Vandenstock was caught bribing referees to throw soccer games so his team would win, while he was the team owner. So it's telling that Belle-Vue isn't what it claims to be, with that kind of leadership it's no wonder they've been cheating at the lambic game all along. It's fitting that they were bought out by ABInbev, the biggest beer conglomerate in the world, though it's still a mystery why they even make this garbage. Pretend to the end.

Belgian Gueuze #95
Jun 01, 2020
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Reviewed by FLima from Brazil

3.05/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Deep amber color with a thin head.
Different sweeter aroma than usual for Gueuze with notes of orange marmalade, lots of biscuits, some wood and faint sourness.
Flavor with notes of wheat, biscuit, lemon sourness, mild wood, peaches, orange marmalade, sugar and coriander. Dry aftertaste with the friendliest sourness possible.
Light to medium body with appropriate carbonation.
It felt this is a Sour made for fishing regular drinkers to the style. Though it might be a tad sweet for that. Going towards a Faro. Very easy to drink.
Oct 08, 2019
 
Rated: 3.5 by paulish from New York

Oct 06, 2019
 
Rated: 3.49 by vfgccp from New York

May 10, 2019
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Reviewed by javahead71 from District of Columbia

1.68/5  rDev -46.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
Very poor representation of the style. Deep amber in color, this "gueueze" is barely sour at all and ranges good way into sweet. The label on the back makes clear why: the fourth listed ingredient is sugar. In addition to orange peel and coriander, "aroma" is also added. That said, it's not an awful brew if you like sweet-sour beers loaded up with added flavors. I'm rating it so lowly because of the mismatch of what it purports to be and what it is.
Sep 16, 2018
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Reviewed by josanguapo from Spain

2.5/5  rDev -20.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
From cervezas belgas, Almuñecar. In Teku glass. At lunch, with rice soup and merluza. Not seems lambic. No tartness Sweet, but not as much as a faro, damp, old,reminiscences to apple, marmalade. Tiresome
Aug 28, 2018
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Reviewed by BlackBeerPirate from Illinois

3.19/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
NOTE: with person pouring the samples age this bottle for 20 years: Taste: smooth, only semi sour, whiskey notes, no funk left. Oak and cognac nose. Amber copper hue, clear no real head. Medium to lite body. I am positive a fresher sample would be more sour and yeasty.
Oct 16, 2017
 
Rated: 2.56 by Rifugium from North Dakota

Mar 16, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by Sparky44 from Illinois

Dec 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.71 by bird_soul from Netherlands

Dec 01, 2016
 
Rated: 3.7 by Wessel from Netherlands

Jul 25, 2016
 
Rated: 1.64 by YvesB from Belgium

Jun 20, 2016
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Reviewed by Jerseyislandbeer from Jersey

3.52/5  rDev +12.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a deep and clear amber with a medium sized off white head. Aroma is sweet, malt, coriander & honey. Tastes of is sweet and fruity with honey, coriander and hints of vanilla and a faint sourness. Aftertaste is a dry medium bitter. Overall better than I expected.
May 24, 2016
 
Rated: 3.43 by hdtrice from England

May 12, 2016
Belle Vue Gueuze from Brasserie Belle-Vue
Beer rating: 73 out of 100 with 118 ratings