Rating System

1 - don't waste valuable beer calories on me
2 - tasty, walter approves
3 - so good you should have it for breakfast

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Goudenband


Rating: 3

Liefmans Breweries
Dentergem, Belgium
Style: Flemish Sour Brown
ABV: 8%
375 ml corked bottle (2006 vintage)

In preparation for our upcoming Belgium trip I'm hitting the classics. Goudenband is billed as the classic Femish sour brown ale. Pours with a slight head that disappears quickly. Dark red color with a noticeably sour nose.

Sweet and sour taste. Lime flavor that leaves a lingering puckerness...(spell check doesn't think that's a word, but I don't care) Doesn't seem as syrupy as the Duchess, but in my opinion that makes it more enjoyable. More balanced in its sourness than a Gueze. All around a very enjoyable beer.

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