What's your favorite gueuze?

[luckydevil]

I've been digging gueuze massively lately... so what are you favorites so I can go hunt them down and have a sour beer day?

[brewranger]

Cantillon Gueuze Monk's Café Cuvee on draft at monk's...you can find bottles as well.

[NHBrewer]

First let me state a couple of things. I love gueze. Have had very many, I was working as the bartender at Ebenezer's pub, and I have yet to meet one that I did not like. Also some of these may be harder to get than others but have found them to be the ones I have likes the best.

J and J Blauw
Millenium Gueze
Drie Fontenein Oude Gueze, older vintages improve with age
Cantillion Lou Pepe Gueze, again older vintages are excellent

For everyday gueze it is hard to beat Giradin Black label. The price is great and it should be readily available. Here in NH all we can get retail is Cuvee Rene from Lindemans which is probably my least favorite but I would still drink it everyday.

[MikeB]

First let me state a couple of things. I love gueze. Have had very many, I was working as the bartender at Ebenezer's pub, and I have yet to meet one that I did not like. Also some of these may be harder to get than others but have found them to be the ones I have likes the best.

J and J Blauw
Millenium Gueze
Drie Fontenein Oude Gueze, older vintages improve with age
Cantillion Lou Pepe Gueze, again older vintages are excellent

For everyday gueze it is hard to beat Giradin Black label. The price is great and it should be readily available. Here in NH all we can get retail is Cuvee Rene from Lindemans which is probably my least favorite but I would still drink it everyday.

+1 on Drie Fontenein Oude Gueuze, Cantillon (anything from them) and Giradin. I would even throw Boon Oude Gueuze and the Oude Gueuze from de Cam in there as well.

I just got back from Belgium yesterday and brought back Cantillon's Lou Pepe Kriek (did not have the gueuze) and three bottles of gueuze all from the Cantillon gift shop. I could not fit any more in my small checked luggage. I would have liked to have brought back some de Cam and Drie Fontenein.

[MadsH]

Hanssens Artisanal is a personal favorite (also improves with age).

[brewinhard]

Had the sheer pleasure of sharing a 7 year old Drie Fontenin oude gueze with my brother in law last year. Add 2 years on top of that for production and the bottle itself was 9 years old +. The beer was phenomenal and extremely lemony with no acetic character. By far my favorite yet.

[luckydevil]

Awesome, thanks for some suggestions. Time for a trip to the bottle store for some more hunting. Surprisingly, found a lot of good stuff at the fresh market grocery store here in Tampa, whole lot more good beer than in the package store next door.

I had a bottle of Girardin tonight, damn good. Super funky, green apple, lemon. Got a bottle of drie fonteinen 08 in the cellar frige, but may hold on to that one for a little while longer.

I've also got 20 gallons of lambic going in the closet, so in a few years I guess I'll be setup.

[Junket]

Drie Fonteinen, hands down. I will never forget the first time I tasted that beer (which is saying a lot, because it must have been about 3am during a Brooklyn pub crawl).