Wednesday, December 06, 2006

belgians: st. louis gueze

From BEER

a gueuze (say guuhzz, as if you were le french) is a belgian style made by blending different batches of lambic. lambic is an old belgian style relying on spontaneous fermentation; you just set your brew in a cave in belgium somewhere and hope the yeast that eats it turns out to be tasty. and in belgium, it often does. tasty, and sour. it may taste like the beer is based on stomach acid, but after you get used to it, it's pretty delicious.
of the two gueuezes i've tasted so far, this one was the inferior. the

From BEER
ingredient list is pretty shameful, including not only sugar but an unnamed sweetener, some preservatives and ascorbic acid, though why they would need to make it more sour is beyond me. it tastes mostly like sour, other characteristics are very hard to make out. i drank it with a meal in luxembourg, so i didn't make notes, but, um, well at least you know it's out there now.

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