Trinity Seven Day Sour Vert Gueuze!!

Not a gueuze. Not at all.

 

Collab Geuze: 2010 Cable Car, Beat b5, 2012 Dry Hop L'Brett Dor

Please send as many bottles of the above beer to me and I will blend.

 

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It truly does read as pure spin. A Gueuze is blended from 1, 2 and 3 year old lambics (maybe some blenders only use up to 2 year old stuff, but those are not the most sought-after)- but the key development is how slowly the brett takes to really get going, and what it contributes to the overall finished product. The accelerated lacto sourness without that brett funk will likely not result in a desirable beer, but in any event it will not be a Gueuze because it isn't blended from different vintages.

 

We could all speculate about how this beer will fall short of what we expect from a gueuze, or you could just try it for yourself and see if the brewer's intentions were met. It is, admittedly, a "young gueuze", hence the name Vert Gueuze.

 

They need to call it an American sour..

 

Just because it is not technically a specific style does not mean that the beer would not be good. It just means it will not be that specific beer and should not be called such.

 

To be honest, I think Mr. Yester is just trying to push some buttons with the name gueuze, because I'm pretty sure it will taste very little like one.

 

Why would you want to see White Birch make a mockery of one of the greatest styles??

 

In a sense it would be more honest to just call it a "Young Straight Lambic"- although that would also push some bottons. He could at least make the argument, in that case, that he is using a broad stylistic definition. In this case...I don't know. It's definitely a more provocative name, that's for sure.

 

At the very least the label is a Cantillon ripoff.

 

Poor us. Beg for new American sours, then bitch. F the name, hope it's good.

 

Yes, you might think that, but this is clearly a case where the brewer is wrong and doesn't understand (or doesn't care) what is or is not a gueuze.

 

Someone correct me if I am wrong but I am of the understanding that only a sour beer done in Belgium, using their process, can be labeled as a Gueuze. Hence The Bruery calling their take on a Belgium Gueuze "Rueuze".

 

Wow, the label is eerily similar to the export label for Cantillon Geuze, with similar fonts, colors, and border designs:

 

That's what HORAL would like, but it's not legally enforced. The Bruery and some other US breweries refrain out of respect, not requirement.

 

Also, phillybeer is being sarcastic. This thread was meant to make fun of Trinity, not defend it...

 

Unfortunately there is no law in place to govern this, the way there is with Champagne. However some brewers do honor the origin of the name and process by restricting their own use of Lambic and gueuze to beers produced by spontaneous fermentation in the Senne valley in Belgium, thus Rueueze is not a Gueuze. Allagash spontaneously ferments some of their beers and also does not use the terms Lambic or Gueuze.