Girardin Gueuze from Brouwerij Girardin is a lambic of exceptional excellence, the epitome of traditional gueuze, bombarding the palate with slightly lemon-grapefruit tang...
The largest of the authentic lambic brewers and gueuze blenders left in the Senne Valley. It is a farm brewery, on what was once an aristocrat’s estate, at St. Ulriks-Kapelle. The brewery began in 1845, as part of an aristocrat’s estate. The Girardins have owned it since 1882, through four generations.They grow their own wheat, brew lambic in winter and produce Pils in summer.The Girardins use 40 percent wheat in their lambic, and still have a mill that grinds the grain between stones. They produce clean, gentle, bitterish lambics with a slight lemon-grapefruit tang like the world-beating unfiltered Girardin Gueuze 5% abv