Augustijn Grand Cru

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ertvelde, Belgium

Pours a clear golden color with a white, foamy head. Aroma is a bit sharp and of grains, yeast, licorice and a bit of alcohol. Taste is sweet and a bit bitter and of licorice, but has a sharp and unpleasant alcohol presence. Decent bitter lingering finish. Well carbonated.

On tap at Novare Res. Pours a golden cloudy color with a one finger white head. Aroma is sweet malty, with a clean caramelly scent. Taste is nice, crisp, sweet, but not cloying. Lots of flavor, but none of it’s annoying. It’s a good beer to drink a lot of, nothing in here gets old on the taste buds :)

18th May 2008. Crisp fizzy beer with a champagne like snap and dryness. It’s clean with a nice mild brandyish malt in the mid and the finish.

33cl bottle. Very unimpressive. Vile and mildly bitter. Tastes like a watered down Düvel.

Bottle. Clear golden colour with a huge moslty lasting white creamy head. Rich aroma and taste of orange, spice and malts. Nice lasting taste.

0.33L bottle, fluffy stable heas, dark golden colour, aromas of dried apricot with citrus, vanila, malt and manure, Flavours of orange, mandarine, sweetish malt and cinamon, quite dry with an empathic bitterness which is a touch coarse, bitter and sour aftertaste. Good beer.

Bottle. A strong aroma of citrus with a sweet background, the finish is a little bit sour. The head is gigantic, white and foamy, it is rather fast disappearing. The body is pale yellow. The taste is acidic and light bitter. The body is light to medium, with a lot of carbonation and a dry body.

Pours crystal clear amber with huge frothy long lasting head with some lacing. Aroma is yeasty and spicy in a refreshing way. Flavour is also slightly spicy but otherwise rather flat. Very high carbonation which poorly fills up the thin body.