New Glarus R & D Gueuze
Brewed in the tradition of the Lambics of Belgium but using a blend of Ale Yeast, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus, and Acetobacter. These microorganisms came from our culture collection as well as many collected by Dan around the wilds of Wisconsin! Fermented and aged in Oak. This beer spent the summer of 2009 aging outdoors in used oak barrels. Then bottle fermented. This is a funky and very sour beer not for the faint of heart. If you are unfamiliar with sour or Brettanomyces beers you may want to pass this one up!
3.8
168 reviews
New Glarus, United States
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Bottle (500 ml). Bottled in 2010. Thanks to MatSciGuy for this one! Bright golden/amber with a small white head and little to no lacing. Aroma is of honey sweetness, light sourness, wood and light brettanomyces. Taste is slightly to moderately sweet & sour with honey, wood and light floral notes. Medium body. Light to moderate carbonation. Sirupy mouthfeel. Slightly dry, but not enough for the style. Nice balance between sweet and sour (though it might be a little too sweet). A tad too linear, but still very interesting. Tasty.
Pour is clear amber with little white head and little Lacing. Aroma is fairly sweet, honey, light maple, apples, Brett. Taste is less sweet, nice tartness and sour yellow fruits, oak. Low body and medium carb.
Bottle at home with my wife, courtesy of TheAlum. Thanks man!! Pour is slightly hazy orange with a small cream-colored and decent lacing. Spicy, candy, sour grainy, caramelly, biscuit, doughy, somewhat funky, urine, sour fruits, wheaty, and spicy aroma. Taste is huge sour fruits, wheat, pears, green apples, light caramel, spice, bready, musty, urine, and lemon peel with a big sour finish. Light body with high carbobation. Super sour and an awesome treat.
Light amber in color. Nice funky sourness in thr smell and taste to match. Very bubbly, nice lingering tartness.
Bouteille de 500 ml partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal. Arôme: Odeur de citron avec une pointe fruitée. Apparence: La couleur est orange avec une très faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de pommes vertes et de citron avec une pointe de vanille. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement vineuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût sûrette. (Rating #4792)
Pours a bright gold with no head. Aroma of malt, funk and citrus. Taste is malty, citrus, funky tart and some pineapple. Very nice beer.
500 ml bottle served in a New Glarus flute. Bottled 8/6/10. Thanks to sweemzander for the share!
A: Pours a clear yellowish color with a white head forming on the pour. It recedes to a thin ring that leaves some splotchy lace.
S: Fruity and sweet with a slightly tart lemony note. Grassy, wet oak and a hint of lemon peel.
T: Lots going on in the taste. Tart apple, lemon spritz, musty basement and grass. Sweet vanilla with some pale malts and a little oak. Sour lemon notes as well.
M: Light bodied with a medium high carbonation. Sour and sweet finish.
O: Really good. Definitely enjoyed this one. Easy drinking with a nice complex taste.
Serving type: bottle
My Bottom Line:
Tropical fruit allusions and biscuity cereals move into a delightfully peppery wilderness in this quenching P-Lambic/Wild Ale.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam circles the cloudy beige.
-Mouthfeel is appropriately lean, but carbonation is nowhere near what a Gueuze normally has.
-Drinkability is higher than the average Gueuze’s, which I appreciate.
-Fruitiness spans from mango to citrus fruit.
-No idea why they called this a Gueuze if it wasn’t blended...
Bottle.
500mL bottle, sent from javit (thanks Adam), pours a clear bronze / copper with a small white head. Aroma is moderately funky, with dry tart light fruits, oak barrels, brett and other wild yeast character. Flavour is very tart, with moderate funkiness, lots of oak barrel complexity, wild yeast and a light vinegar / acidic quality. Quite complex and tart, but tastes absolutely nothing like a traditional Belgian lambic, just like an American sour. Decent stuff for what it is, but it’s a big stretch classifying this as a lambic.
Bottle: Poured a clear light amber color beer with a large foamy head with average retention and not much lacing. Aroma consists of light funky notes with some tart notes and light oak notes also noticeable. Taste is a good mix between some funky ester with some oak and tart notes that are all well balanced between each others. Body is about average with good carbonation. Well balanced and easily drinkable
Where the Wild Beers Are, 2012. Gold color. Promising aroma of acid and yeast. Very nice flavor for an American lambic, quite sour and dry with oak and light hops.
500ml bottle received in trade. Thanks Jason! Pours a clear, light amber color with a white head. Aroma is fruity, lemon, a little barrel funk. Medium on the palate with light, soft carbonation. Flavor is sour, lemon, yeasty, wheat, green apple, a little oak, with a light sour finish. Very tasty. Wish I had more of it. There are some flavors in here that are reminiscent of Cran-bic and Enigma.
Bottle. Sampled side-by-side with 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze. Poured a clear medium orange color. The head was two fingers high and white. It dissipated relatively quickly. Smelled of oak and fruity white wine sangria with a splash of apple cider vinegar. Apple was the dominant aroma. Light bodied and dryish with moderate to high acidity. Perhaps slightly more acidic and slightly sweeter than 3 Fonteinen, but less old cheese/cow pasture funk. Oak, unripe apple, white wine vinegar, and subdued grape juice flavors. Very good, even side-by-side with 3 Fonteinen.
Catching up with some old rates. From the bottle to the glass. This one seems a bit subtle, but in a good way. Clean and crisp. Love the direction they are going with this one.
Bottle shared by ahalloin. Thanks Tony!
The beer appears clear and golden. Don’t blink or you’ll miss the head, as it fades instantly, leaving nary a trace of its existence. The beer has but a few bubbles and appears low in carbonation. This is an appearance I would expect from a very old gueuze. Hmm. The beer is more sweet than sour, which is the polar opposite of my personal preference. That being said, it tastes pretty good for what it is. True to form, this is another New Glarus beer that is just too sweet. A few ounces was plenty. This is not what I would consider a gueuze.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 11-13-2010
Bottle; thanks Mike! Pours a murky golden with minimal white head. Aroma is full of barnyard funkiness with a weird pickle-like sour quality. Flavors are rich of port wine with lemon and pickle juices. Lots of dry funkiness in the finish with plenty of sourness. Interesting, mainly in a good way.
Bottle, 07/02/2012. Pours clear burnished gold, frothy white head from a vigorous pour fades quickly. Lots of oak in the aroma, vinous, vanilla and apple, pear; sweet tartness and marked barnyard character. Taste begins with lactic sourness, opens into sweet, tart fruitiness, lemon citrus, touch of wood in the finish. Relatively light body, moderate carbonation. Not your typical lambic profile, but complex and enjoyable in its own right.
500ml bottle shared with Jul.
Appearance : Clear yellow with medium foamy head.
Aroma : Wood with light malt. A bit phenolic with light soy sauce (!?!). Some tartness with definite sourness. Citrusy.
Taste : Slightly acidic, tart and citrusy. Some sweet cooked lemon peel. Lemon pie as well. Nice finish.
Overall : Fairly interesting but not a gueuze. The citrusy tartness felt a little bit fake... Rather drinkable. Weird almost soy sauce notes in there. Lots of wood. Rather awkward overall.
Bottle. Clear gold pour, frothy white head, looks pretty. Aroma is quite woody, vanilla oak, a little winey, butter, some lemon. Taste is tart but not really acidic at all. More lemon, oak, the lemon is actually sweet almost like a lemon pie. Palate is lightly carbed, med body.
Technically not a gueze, but still damn tasty. Especially as far as 1 year lambics go. Wonderful beer.
From the bottle. It pours a beautiful clear golden orange with a fizzy yet disappearing white head. Nice streaming bubbles in the tulip glass. The aroma has notes of apples and oak with no real hints of sour or funk. The flavor is nice and refreshing, but a bit sweet for a gueuze. Some more apple, a touch of white wine and cider vinegar with a subtle oakiness. Not real sour, and almost no funk. Pretty clean and refreshing though. Nice.
Shared a bottle with some friends. Poured with virtually no head. Aroma was a tart apricot sweetness, like wine tartness. White wine like characteristics. Sour, funk, forward on the tongue. Dry finish, but not too dry. Very enjoyable brew.
Bottle shared by a friend. Pours clear gold with a thin white head. Malty aroma with plenty of funk and sourness. Sour lemon flavor with malt and funk before a lemony fin.
Really nice yellow gueze look, carbonation is minimal but this beer smells sour and there is some oak but not a lot. Really crisp funk in the nose. The taste is clean and sour all the micros have done their jobs well. NG needs to make this and the Kriek again.
Bottle from theALum, possibly. Poured a hazy brownish amber body with a smaller fizzy white head. Aroma is F-U-N-K-E-Y, vinegar, band-aid, lemon and cherry juice combo. The body is just a touch on the bubbly side from the carbonation with a long lingering sourness and a medium body. Flavor is sour, with slight cherry and a hint of lemon along with lots of funkiness and slight band-aid, wet wood. This is a great beer, get this shit out of retirement!!
500ml bottle from a trade (but can’t remember who - so thank you). Mostly clear apple juice amber with a white head that fades fairly quickly. Tart, definite funk, tannins, lemon curd. Moderate to high carbonation, quite tart that becomes acidic, very dry on the finish with a nice gueuze mouthfeel. Very tasty offering from NG.
I brought this one to our recent gueuze tasting. Served alongside the Kriek.
A - Pours golden straw yellow with a nice one finger tall white head leaving patchy lace down the glass.
S - Smells of light funk and sourness, dash of herbs, green apples, oak and some wet straw. Compared to the others we opened this ones nose wasn’t as good.
T - Starts off with bright lactic sourness kick quickly giving way to hints of barnyard funk, green apples, lemon zest, oak and a touch of spice. Not as sour as I was expecting, also a slightly metallic flavor develops as it warms. Finish is pretty dry, lingering on the pallet after the finish.
M - Medium body and flavor with moderate carbonation. Dry, tart feel that lingers through the finish. Nice and soft at the start growing a bit watered down toward the end of the glass.
O - Second time I have had this one, once fresh and once aged, and I have enjoyed it both times, altho I think I preferred it fresh. The flavors where mild and it was easy to drink. I would recommend it.
Bottle, shared much thanks to Dmac. Pours out a clear golden color with a small head. Aroma is sweet and funky, maybe like funky granny smith apples a little bit of oak and some tangy tartness. Taste is complex, much more tartness comes through in the taste, some funky barnyard notes, light sweet fruits with an underlying tangyness. Tasty.
500 ml thanks to ogglethorp. Nice aroma of peach and tart. Taste is green apple and peach. Nice subtle sour tart taste there as well. Apple a bit intense as well.
In short: A not-so-sour golden sour ale with a strong cider/apple-juice flavor. Just decent.
How: Bottle 500ml. Consumed almost exactly one year after the beer release. Bottle sent to me by justn, thanks a lot Justin
The look: Clear golden body topped by a quickly dissipating beige head
In long: Nose is fresh cereals, cider, some barnyard funk with a hint of acidity/sourness. Really smells like some kind of funky green apples cider. Taste has a lot of fresh cereals, lemon, wet wood, green and red apples, iced-tea, peaches, vanilla extract. Mild tartness, mild sourness, medium acidity. Soft carbonation with an oily body, rather boring mouthfeel actually. There was a few things I liked about this beer but the lame cider flavor (borderline apple-juice) was too dominant in this beer for me to find it more than just mildly enjoyable. Pretty sad to see a fake lambic like this getting rated as high as a real lambic. When I see people drinking and American Gueuze I assume it is because nobody told them about Belgium lambics, and they are probably the same ignorant people who wear sleep masks because nobody told them humans are born with eyelids.