Goose Island Juliet
Fermented with wild yeasts and aged in cabernet barrels with blackberries, Juliet is a tart, fruity, complex ale. Notes of wood, tannin, dark fruit and spice make Juliet an ideal beer to suggest to Pinot Noir enthusiasts and beer drinkers who are fond of Belgian sour ales.
3.8
544 reviews
Chicago, United States
Community reviews
Beautiful golden with a ruby hue, head settles quickly, super lifted with sour berry notes. First taste super sour but second is beautiful. Great balance. Lovely.
Hazy orange color with a bit of beige foam disappearing quickly. Aroma has grape vinegar, toasted malt, a hint of brown sugar. Taste is sour, acidic, fruity but I don't really get blackberry, more like generic sour berries with a light bitterness on the finish. Medium body and carbonation. Quite intense on the sour, acetic notes.
My favorite of the three straight sour ales from goose island, perhaps because the fruit is the least present. Tasty stuff.
On tap at the brewpub. Pours muddy light brown. Flavor is musty deep fruit and tartness with a fair amount of funk and juice to go around. However, the mouthfeel is light enough and the finish is clean enough to make this all stand up. Great beer.
Wild ale that is not too sour. More fruit forward and a bit of wine to level it out. Interesting
Bottle at The Willows. Copper color, white head. Sour taste with citrus, white currant, tart, wheat, ripe fruits, sour apple and grass. Sour finish with sour apples, white currant, wheat, tart, ripe fruits and grass. Exquisite sour ale.
2013. Slight tartness. Blackberries. Woody. Some but not much red wine.
Tasted at my Plants and Animals Bottle share.
Draught. 2013. Pours an amberish red with a tiny, sudsy white head. Aroma is vinegar, light (black)berry, some oak, spice, and a hint of funk. Taste is blackberry, vinegar, red wine, grape, lots of oak, vanilla, and a hint of spice. Light, malty sweetness. Medium body. Moderate carbonation. Creamy-ish mouthfeel. Remniscient of Cascade but with more vinegar. Aroma has too much vinegar in it.
2017, 12 ounce bottle.
Pours opaque orange red, small and quickly gone head of foam. No lacing to speak of.
I smell Brett, tannins, tart to sour fruit. Blackberry is what they used but I can't remember when I last ate any blackberries.
Taste is pretty magnificent. Sour fruit, Brett, woody, quite complex and tasty.
On the lower end of medium bodied.
Probably my favourite Goose Island beer after Bourbon County Stout.
Love this beer and could be one of my favorite sours I have had so far
750 ML 2015 Bottled 7/31/15, multiple pours into Goose Island Chalice. Clear copper pour, nominal white head, mild carbonation. Tart blackberry and grape aroma, Tate similar, tart sweet balance, blackberry grape sour taste. Very clear mouth feel, easy drinking. Very good sour/sweet combination, good offering by Goose Island.
Thanks Carl! Nice sour. Blackberries and wine barrels shine through. Woody and sour and fruity in equal measure. Good stuff!
Mora, aroma jugoso. En nariz la acidez es elegante y cítrica, pero ne boca es intensa y larga.
Dark reddish amber pour with clouds, some debris, and a quick beige bubbly foam. Tart on the nose with good acid, some beery fruit and damp earthy notes. Light body with lots of fizz and a sharp, dry, vinous finish, though not as dry as Gillian or Sophie. The taste is tart, acidic with some complex earthy and blueberry flavors. The berry becomes more prominent as it warms. The fizz helps bring this out, somehow. A well-balanced, moderately sour ale. The vinous touches are subtle, but help moderate the tartness and resonate well with the berry flavors. Lacks some of the briny flavors of the other sisters and tastes more like a traditional sour. Unequivocally not a saison.
Tastes like a sour. Pretty good.
Tart and fruity. Great in a small size but it would be tough to drink more than a few oz. Perfect for sharing or a flight
Pours a nice pink/red, white head. Aroma is grape rind, lemon, oak, melon, berries, lacto. Flavor is jammy fruits, raspberry, lemon, oak, tannin, lacto, vinegar, grape rind.
Bomber pour shared at tasting.2012 edition..pours a golden tan color with minimal head, nose is funk n blackberries for miles..mighty fine..palate is funk n berries mixed with barrel goodness, easily one of the better sister offerings from GI, lots of stuff going on here all in a good way, like the fruit, like the funk, like the sour, not much to fault here, a well done take on a fruited Belgian sour/wild ale
Very sour and tart, not vinegar but wow on the tongue. Grapes, raspberries, grass, and yeast. Pale yellow color. Had 2013 Bottle in 2017.
Bottle pour, third of pint, at Goose Island Vintage Ale House Balham. As Goose Island Juliet. Pours a translucent red, sparkling, minimal beige head. Aroma is restrained Jolly Ranchers and redcurrant, red jelly babies. Body is fairly light, tingly carbonation and quite frothy in the mouth. Taste has a puckering, bracing acidity, tooth coating acidity, rounded fruits and biscuity vanilla oak. Tangy redcurrant and cranberry, and the blackberry shows up. Lightly tannic red wine. Very big flavour but there’s something not quite in balance for me. Keep the gaviscon at hand. Very slow drinking and there’s no chance I’d be able to do a full bottle. 1/6 pint would have been sufficient, and this started to wear.
Reddish orange clear beer with no head. Nose is super sour lactobacillus, musty, grains. Taste is massive super sour, citric acidic.
Pours cloudy copper with flat head. Aroma of red grapes and berries, baking soda, bretta. Taste is rich ascorbic tart with a mild barrel sweet finish. Light and smooth body with soft carbonation.
Pours clear amber with minimal head
Aromas tart of red berries, orange, green grapes
Taste has light tart notes of cherries, red berries, hints of over ripe apples
Pours light pumpkin with almost no head. Aromas of peach, apricot, light funk, green grapes, farmhouse, garden branch. Taste is fruity and funky with light farmhouse notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium body and a light carbonation.
765 ml. bottle. Bottled 15Apr16. 8.2% ABV per the label. Pours a minimal, poorly retained ivory head, with no lacing over a hazy amber (SRM 13) body.....nose is heavy funk, barnyard, blackberry, vinous tones, minimal malts, no hops......taste is moderately tart sour, with blackberry, vinous tones, mild funk, minimal barnyard, finishing with minimal hints of berry sweetness and lingering mild sourness......mouth feel, light of medium body, mild alcohol, high carbonation. My only real criticism is the incredibly high local price approaching $25 per bottle. The blackberry, barrel and wild yeasts add nice complexity in both aroma and flavor, with the result of a quite delicious Sour/Wild ale. BJCP 9/3/16/4/8
Small off white head, large bubbled and short lived, no lacing to speak of. Lightly hazy amber copper colored ale. Nose is faintly fruity, lightly woody and a hint spicy. body is light, carbo has died off quickly, tangy, tart and juicy, in its own way. Light lumber and faint fruits, apples and berries with a puckering tartness. Little leather, hint of strawberry and sweat. Dry, puckering finish. Bomber dated 1/26/12. A tad over the 5 year BB date stated on the label. Still juicy and yummy. Little carbonation is the only drawback i register. Has aged well actually. Bomber from statelineliquors a while ago.
Bottle - pours pinkish gold white head - nose/taste of blackberry, wine, oak, funk, floral sourness - medium body
I think I drank this beer yesterday. Hard to believe Anheuser Busch is involved in any way. Sampled at the First National Taphouse, Eugene, 1/21/2017.
Avermelhada de leve turbidez e sem espuma. Aroma de acidez predominante, tende entre morango e amora, entre a lolita e gillian é a que mais lembra levedura belga belga. Acidez alta a ponto de exagerar, média carbonatação. Final de longa persistência trás mais do amadeirado mantendo a acidez elevada, achei que exagerou e atrapalhou a percepção do paladar.
Bottle shared by alexsdad06 pour hazy dark gold with minimal ecru head. Nose tart funk, tannin, light spice. Taste tart up front, berry, sour, and light powdery. Tart finish.