Oude Geuze from Boon

Continuing on my Tuesday night antics with an Oude Geuze from Boon.

Now this is the first lambic beer that I have come across in my 200 beer quest and a bit of research shows that lambics come from a valley in Belgium where they expose the beer early on to the air in order to take advantage of natural yeasts. This means they don't need to add brewers yeast like other beers. Geuze is apparently the type of beer and oude means old, this means they haven't added anything to the beer to make it sweeter which has apparently come into fashion to try and open these kind of beers up to a wider market.

On pouring I notice that it is very fizzy, giving quite a head. the barman describes it as "full of life". The taste is very nice at first, quite light and not very hoppy with plenty of fizz. Towards the end it gives a very bitter, almost vinegary sour acidic flavour which I am not a great fan of, I guess this is why some people add those sweeteners. Overall its nice and a little different to most beers you get. 3.5 out of 5.

Floris Passionfruit

So it has been a while since I posted. I haven't been into the Post Office vaults for a couple of weeks, I haven't stopped drinking, that is unthinkable. I have just been doing my drinking in some of the other fine pubs around Birmingham. But it being my week off and so it was time to get back on the horse and cross some more beers off of the passport.

It was with some glee that I ordered the Floris Passionfruit, it was the last of the Floris beers on the list and I certainly was glad to see the back of them. The beer was a bright yellow colour reminiscent of a urine sample . The taste, well it was sweet and passionfruity and with little about it to actually tell you it was beer. the general consensus from Rob and Adam was that it tastes like Rubicon. So if you are a big fan of Rubicon or Lilt I can recommend you this beer. Otherwise I think it is awful. The worst so far? maybe, certainly up there with the Floris Chocolate. 0 out of 5.

Zot

Another Belgian beer up next. Brugse Zot, chosen by my girlfriend for the name. The name means Bruges fool, I'm not sure what that says my girlfriend thinks of me. The beer bottle is adorned by a jester and a little research tells me that it's the only beer to be brewed in Bruges.

The beer is a nice golden colour with a nice head. It's got a good flavour and has what I would describe and a yeasty flavour which I find in a lot of these Belgian and Belgian style beers. On the whole a very decent beer. 3.5 out of 5.

Floris Ninkenberry

Another Floris, there is only one more!!!! This time it's mixed berry. I have bee warned that this has the odour of cats wee, and upon pouring it does have the slightly cloudy golden look of urine. It doesn't taste great, not even really of berries, more just sweet. 0 out of 5.

Grimbergen Dubbel

Following up on the Grimbergen Blonde which I tried earlier is this. Now normally I prefer a light or golden beer to a dark one but I must say this is very good. I found the blonde version to be a bit light weight and lacking in a decent flavour, but the darker version is deep and full of flavour a delight, 4 out of 5.

Floris Mango

Not many more of these strange alcopops to go before I am free to drink proper beer for the rest of the challenge. This mango concoction is actually not as bad as some of the others in the range, it's not as sweet and if I close my eyes while I drink and try really hard I can nearly taste beer. 1 out of 5.