{"id":156,"date":"2012-04-16T16:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T16:27:35","slug":"review-horals-oude-geuze-mega-blend-2011-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/04\/16\/review-horals-oude-geuze-mega-blend-2011-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Review: HORALs Oude Geuze Mega Blend (2011 Vintage)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Horal's Oude Geuze - Mega Blend 2011' on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/7081895715\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7214\/7081895715_3951051096_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Horal's Oude Geuze - Mega Blend 2011\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #003366; padding: 0px;\" title=\"3.8 out of 5.0\">3.8<\/div>\n<p><strong> <small> AROMA <\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">7\/10<\/big> <small> APPEARANCE <\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">4\/5<\/big> <small> TASTE <\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">7\/10<\/big> <small> PALATE <\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">3\/5<\/big> <small> OVERALL <\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">17\/20<\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><small style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"color: #336699; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/user\/154569\/\">adamjackson\u00a0(215)<\/a> &#8211; Canaan, USA &#8211; APR 16, 2012<\/small><br style=\"color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #474747; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; padding-top: 14px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #e0e0e0;\">Thanks Shawn for sharing. Poured into a tulip glass at 45 Degrees F. 2011 Vintage. Enjoyed with friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A &#8211; Half-Finger white head. Hazey, dark gold appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>S &#8211; Wow. Bread, spices, earthiness, funk and very much a Geuze in all ways\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>T &#8211; Intense tart and sour. Sweeter than expected. Grapefruit, sweet yeast and honey traces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>M &#8211; 80% mouthfeel carbonation, dry and zero lingering of the tartness. It leaves pretty fast\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>O &#8211; Very interesting. Great but not an A+<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3.8 AROMA 7\/10 APPEARANCE 4\/5 TASTE 7\/10 PALATE 3\/5 OVERALL 17\/20 adamjackson\u00a0(215) &#8211; Canaan, USA &#8211; APR 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T16:04:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"3084f364-81aa-4096-be6c-d21d6ea913ad","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-07T16:04:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AMITzZIGqQJa-bNIdbqkTrQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2w","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":381,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/review-a-collection-of-bottled-lambic-beers\/","url_meta":{"origin":156,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Review: A Collection of Bottled Lambic Beers","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 7, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Myself and 4 friends ordered these bottles simultaneously at the Weekend of Spontaneous Fermentation 2012. 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