Saturday, August 18, 2012

Goose Island Juliet:
‘Ello all, and welcome to a day of beer (just like the day before it and tomorrow and so on).  Today we venture back to the island of geese and try another one of their special Belgian brews: Juliet.  This beer, is a more sour beer than I’m used to and to be honest, a little too much for me, but that doesn’t stop me from reviewing it for you.  The beer pours a nice orange brown color with very little head to speak of though a nice amount of carbonation.   The nose is a little off putting, being very sour and funky with notes of cherries and a touch of malt.  The taste was big and sour up front but moves to a more blackberry/blueberry taste with notes of Belgian beers (hopes and malts in a nice balanced flavor) and a bit of banana and a subtle sour finish.  Not really up my alley as far as beers go, to sour for my taste but it’s still a Goose Island brew so it gets the benefit of the doubt for the sour taste (never had a true sour ale so I can’t really compare how close this really is to one) but this is will take the roll of adding a check mark to the completion list of Goose Island Belgiums and that’s about it. 


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