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==Notes / Other History==
Unlike traditional oude gueze gueuze which consists of a blend of one-, two-, and three-year old lambic, Girardin Black is a blend of twelve-, eighteen-, and twenty-four-month old lambic. According to Paul Girardin, he "blend[s] lambics of 12, 18, and 24 months to make the Oude Gueuze. The 2-year-old lambic is for complexity, light acidity and maturity; the year-old version is to spark a refermentation, and the 18-month-old lambic is used to balance the 1- and 2 year-old versions."<ref name=ASNGirardin)>Chuck Cook, Exclusive, Self-Sufficient, Independent - Girardin Survives, Ale Street News, 2009, http://www.alestreetnews.com/travel/321-exclusive-self-sufficient-independent-girardin-survives.html</ref>
Though there is no complete bottle log for this gueuze. Girardin Black, as it is colloquially referred to, dates back to at least the 1990's. The bottles are not dated; however, beginning in the mid 2000's the corks began to show bottling batch numbers. For example ''Ax2013'' is commonly referred to as a 2013 batch. However, bottling batch numbers should only be used as a reference and may not necessarily indicate the bottling year as certain batches have arrived on store shelves prior to the year marked (''e.g.'', ''Ax2013'' arrived on store shelves in the United States in late-2012).