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Oude Gueuze 16 years 9 months ago #1

richieh Topic Author Offline Posts: 1507	to all you lambicophiles- a quick q. I am drinking a bottle of de troch cuvee chapeau lambic oude gueuze and it's quite flat. is that normal? I seem to remember having a boon oude gueuze that was sparkling like a champagne.

16 years 9 months ago #2

TheBeerNut Offline Posts: 11663	No, there should be some sparkle to it. I've had old lambics that were basically flat, but I'd have thought the Chapeau should be fresh and fizzy. Not tried it though.

16 years 9 months ago #3

richieh Topic Author Offline Posts: 1507	that's what I thought. I guess there's a hint of carbonation... well then again not really. This lambic takes some getting used to. I suppose if it was stored upright the cork may have dried out. odd though since it was capped also.

16 years 9 months ago #4

joris p.
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&quot;RichieH&quot;:eyquw4j8 wrote: that's what I thought. I guess there's a hint of carbonation... well then again not really. This lambic takes some getting used to. I suppose if it was stored upright the cork may have dried out. odd though since it was capped also.[/quote:eyquw4j8]

[color=olive:eyquw4j8]Unless a very poor quality cork is used, the idea that a bottle of beer kept upright dries the cork out, is an urban myth. You have to imagine the amount of liquid underneath the tiny volume of trapped air to get the idea that that volume of air MUST be saturated by watervapour.
And, as in your example, the bottle was crown-capped at that, the drying-out is even impossible after years of pushing the CO² out by the refermentation. Your sample must have been mistreated in a much earlier stage. De Troch beers have been know to "vary"...[/color:eyquw4j8]