Bobeline La Bière de Spa Brune

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Melle, Belgium

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a cloudy reddish brown with huge floaties and a beige head. Lovely Belgian aroma of overripe fruit and brown sugar. Medium body, overripe fruit and licorice with yeast and phenols. Massive warming alcohol. 241009

33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden hazzlenut brown with a slowly collapsing tan head. Light yeasty fruity and malty aroma, not too caramelish. Flavour is sweet, slight yeast fruity and vague metallic. Mild roasted malt base. Lingering mix of yeasty fruit notes and malt into a smooth and lasting finish.

Bottle, 8.5%. Perfumy aroma, some dark malts, a little yeast. Very small tan head. The flavour is rather sweet. Has some spiciness, brown sugar. A little yeast in the finish along with a very faint lactic note. The alcohol is quite clean in the finish, burns my throat a bit.

Bottled. Dark ruby colour, small beigeish brown head. Aroma is alcohol, chocolate and toffee. Flavour is metallic, dark and sour fruits. Warming alcohol in the finish, but nothing noted in the flavour. Watery and boring.

Light amber. Chunky. Slightly spritzy, slightly spicy. Some caramel and toffee. Decent, but fairly uninteresting.

Clear deep amber with large beige head. Sweet yeasty aroma with roasted malt and ripe fruits. Cloying sweet flavour with ripe fruits, roasted malt, caramel and yeasty notes. Finished sweet with warming alcohol.

Bottled. Dark ruby color, small but firm beige head. Dark chocolate, molasses and coffee in the nose. Carbonated mouthfeel. Dark fruits, coffee, wood. more dry/sour and tart than sweet. Alcohol is not present at all. Long dry aftertaste.

(Bottle, BB 12/09) Pours a murky brown body with a medium beige head. Aroma of black licorice, dark sugars, green pepper, wood, and mustiness. Flavor of raisins, grape juice, caramel, and toasted malt.