Duck Duck Gooze

Belgian-style Sour

A dark brown glass beer bottle with a cork top and wire cage; label features a cartoon illustration of ducks swimming in a pond with cattails and rocks; text on the label reads 'The Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze Ale aged in red wine barrels.'
Gold and black circular design resembling a stylized sunburst or eclipse with radiating lines from center.
  • 🏆 Best of Show

    Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer

    2025

  • 🥇 Best of Show

    Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer

    2022

  • 🥇 Gold

    Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer

    Wild Beer Mixed Culture, 2025

  • 🥇 Gold

    Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer

    2022

  • 🥈 Silver

    Great American Beer Festival, Wood and Barrel-Aged Sour

    2018

  • 🥈 Silver

    San Diego International Beer Festival

    Sour Ale, 2010

In Belgian brewing there are fantastic wild ales brewed with naturally occurring yeast. These beers develop over time and are ready on their own terms. Duck Duck Gooze is our homage to these effervescent and wonderfully complex sparkling beers.

A blend of young and old barrel aged beers, this has been one of our most sought after beers year after year since it’s original release in 2009.

Alas, it is released in very small quantities only once every three years, so it’s extremely difficult to come by beyond the day we release it. It does, however, turn up on our Tasting Room’s Vintage List from time to time, so don’t despair.

Ducks

What’s good for the Gooze
is good for the Gander

A mother-ducking masterpiece, SD Beer News

Aroma

Tart with hints of oak, leather, Brettanomyces and funk.

Taste

As with all sour ales, the initial sip wakes up your dull senses. There is an elevated level of Acetic Acids working their magic in this beer. The first sip assaults the palate in an enamel stripping bottom of the pH chain sort of way.


Style Reference

Belgian-style Sour

ABV

7.0%