Boon Geuze Mariage Parfait
Brouwerij Boon, Lembeek
Boon's finest geuze, almost entirely three-year-old lambic from its best casks.
Legend has it
Nobody knows for sure where the word geuze comes from, but Lembeek has an answer of its own. As the story goes, around 1870 the village mayor, Louis Paul, who also owned a brewery, took on an engineer called Cayaerts. Together they tried the champagne method on lambic, letting it referment in the bottle. The mayor's liberal politics had earned him the nickname Geus, so the villagers called the sparkling beer the lambic of the Geus. The name stuck. Another theory points to the French gueux, beggar.
Beer stories travel from brewery to bar to guest, and rarely shrink on the way.
Interesting facts
- Since 1977
- Boon first created Mariage Parfait as a traditional geuze in 1977, so the blend is now close to fifty years old.
- Century-old casks
- The lambic comes from Boon's oldest foeders, built between 1883 and 1914 and used for lambic for more than a hundred years. The year on the neck label is the year the three-year-old lambic was brewed.
- Count back
- The best-before date is set 20 years after bottling. To find out when your bottle was filled, simply subtract 20 years.
Mussels with white wine, lemon & parsley, cheese croquette or goat cheese salad.