This beer smells like horse stables
St. Louis Gueuze Lambic
In a glass, poured from a bottle in Brussels Main Square
Apparently Gueuze is a popular Belgian beer. I can somehow understand enough people like it: if you get past the “interesting” smell and taste, you somehow start liking that beer. It smells disgusting, but then again not. It tastes beyond weird, but you somehow enjoy it. Go figure.
In detail, it smells like horse stables; straw, wood and indeed: manure. When you get over the smell and actually taste the beer, it’s rather sweet and sparkly. The smell of manure and stables stays on, but you can also taste that artificial sweeteners have been used. A quick look into the ingredients list on the bottle confirmed that.
This must be one of the beers you will learn to love – or just leave it after having the first glass. I haven’t decided which will apply to me, yet.
The beer was poured from a bottle
| Purity of Taste: | 8.00 |
/ 10 | 1 = many off flavours ; 10 = sheer |
| Purity of Smell: | 8.00 |
/ 10 | 1 = many off-flavours ; 10 = sheer |
| Intensity of Bitterness: | 2 |
/ 5 | 1 = no bitterness ; 5 = bitter |
| Quality of Bitterness: | 6.00 |
/ 10 | 1 = no quality ; 10 = high quality |
| Hoparoma: | 8.00 |
/ 10 | 1 = no quality ; 10 = high quality |
| Palatefulness: | 3 |
/ 5 | 1 = water ; 5 = masty |
| Tingle: | 4 |
/ 5 | 1 = flat ; 5 = too tangy |
| Lautered: | 8.00 out of 10 |
