Bend Outback Old Ale

Brewed by Bend Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Bend, Oregon USA

On tap @ belmont station. i smell vodka, malt syrup. resin. cloudy deep red body w/ quickly fading but lacing head. flavors of dark caramel, plywood (in a good way), a thin honorable bitterness, almost balancing the deep, slightly dusky, malt.

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a clear amber color with a small off-white head. Has a malty fruity aroma with some hints of caramel and dark fruit. Malty dark fruit flavor with some hints of caramel. Has a slightly sweetish fruity malty finish with some hints of dark fruit in the aftertaste.

Sampled at the Bend pub. Pours maroon. small white head. Malty but otherwise pretty bland to me. Definitely does not taste like a Belgian strong ale to me. More like a strong brown ale.

Sample at the source in Bend, OR--Poured a dark brown-amber body with a small creamy off-white head. Faint nutty, caramel, sweet toffee nose. Not very exciting, but not too bad.

1/1/08 At the BrewPub with Bikesandbeer after a day’s drive from Portland, Brewery 5 of the trip. Pours dark amber with a bright white ring. Nose is basically dead. Taste consists of sweet malts, low abv in the taste. Eh.

sampled @ brewpub - cloudy brown with very slight head; aroma is all malts with very slight hint of alcohol; texture is slightly creamy and just a little to bland

On Tap at Brepub pours out a hazy red topped with a off white head. A nice and sweet along with some spice aroma. task just so so.

Tap at brewpub :Hazy reddish brown, beige head.Light malt nose. Thinly carbonated light malt profile, floral hop end. I wasn’t impressed Couldn’t detect alcohol, seemed more like a somewhat bland session beer.