BEER REVIEW: 301
BREWER: Mort Subite, Flemish Brabent, Belgium
STYLE: Gueuze Lambic
ABV: 4.5%
VESSEL: 25cl brown bottle
DATE OF POST: 14th July 2023
JYMI SAY’S…
First up I’m gonna mention the packaging here. It’s not amazing but I do really like it. The lower label has a few dice knocking around on it that then bleeds to some info on our beer on the upper label, that is put over in the form of dice faces. Assuming the upper amount is based on 6, we have one dice saying 3 for sour, another saying 3 for fruit and the last saying 1 for bitter. Leaving aside that this is really confusing and ultimately wrong, it’s a pretty cool idea.
Moving to the inside of the tiny wee bottle, this beer is too sweet and seriously lacking it’s sour side to balance it out. Also, even though the bitterness of the brew is only at level 1 out of 6 from our dice guide, our beer here is also seriously lacking some bitterness, again to balance out the sweetness from the fruit.
Look, if you can get over the large pineapple sweet nature of this brew then it would be drinkable enough if super chilled and being consumed on a scorcher of a day.
But ultimately GL is too sweet, especially for my tart loving tongue, so really is a bit of a fail.
Jymi’s Rating: 38%
SAMMY SAY’S…
I was very excited about drinking this beer.
The name, simply stating the type of beer, is to the point but offers much excitement: who doesn’t love a gueuze or a lambic?
The bottle, old school and hints of tradition, is also pretty cool. While not aligned with more trendy modern beers, it’s still enough to pique one’s interest.
Then things start to go downhill a little.
The nose is a little too dank and there’s not much identifiable in it. No one fruit jumps out in this Gueuze Lambic. Not especially an issue in itself, it doesn’t begin to paint a picture, though. It’s just not as much as I was hoping for at this point of the journey.
In the drinking, the theme of indistinguishable continues for me. No fruit pops – it’s just one note drinking. And that note is too sweet for me – I want a little more sour. Overall, there’s too much cidery interest in it. Look, I know lambics can lead to this – it’s the way they’re brewed – but this is a little too much without much else to give it interest.
Gueuze Lambic is pleasant. And I accept it may have fallen foul of the high expectations I set it before even drinking it. That said, it’s just not, by any stretch of the imagination, a great example of a lambic.
Sammy’s Rating: 55%
MUSE ON BOOZE RATING: 46.5%
MOB review next weekend: HOPICAL STORM™ by TIMOTHY TAYLOR’S
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