st. louis gueuze

A wedding is always a beautiful affair. Two people seal their love with a binding contract in front of their friends and relatives. You put on your best shirt or the nicest dress in the closet, eat and drink, cut festive cakes, throw bouquets, dance and raise your glass to the lovebirds. Marriage is also a happy occasion when it comes to beer: some styles require the marriage of young, freshly brewed beer with older, more mature beer. This so-called blend combines freshness, acidity and liveliness with complexity and depth of aroma. One of these styles is the Gueuze.

For their St. Louis Gueuze, the brewers at the Belgian brewery Van Honsebrouck combined a young and a matured lambic to create a wonderfully balanced brew. The spontaneously fermented creation is a Belgian classic and brings pronounced acidity, soft sweetness, subtle bitterness and juicy fruitiness to the glass.

In this Van Honsebrouck’s Gueuze presents itself in a copper-red shimmering chestnut brown. A bouquet of ripe apples, earthy wood, herbs and flowers rises from the delicate head of foam. The initial taste reveals a fruity freshness that has sour and sweet components. Apple and pear notes combine with oven-fresh biscuits, pale malt, tangy citrus and grassy hops for a refreshing treat.