Bolivar Bruin

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Melle, Belgium

Courtesy of Fonefan. It is red-brown and the head is huge and creamy. The aroma has sweetness and notes of malt and spice. The flavour has sweetness and notes of malt, fruit, spice, mostly coriander, but the overall impression still is on the thin side.

Small, shortlived brownish head over hazy, deep dark brown-red beer. Dark, perfumey malts, some speciality grain on the nose. Dry, wry taste, pharmaceutical. Dried fruit preserved in diluted solvent. Real off-flavour at every new sip; wry, nearly tart. Astringent, medium bodied at best, dry-out effect. Ouch. Something gone wrong here, not working. Dry is one thing, astringent OTOH...

0.33 l bottle. Mahagony color with tan sparkling head. Sweetish aroma with cola, coffee, sharp alcohols and rum. Dryish, toffeish, yeasty and woody flavor with notes of cola, licorice and raisins. Too fizzy.

Bottled. Very dark brown opaque colour with big brown creamy head. Aroma is slight alcohol, some fruits, and sweet rice. Flavour is caramel, sugar and some slight soapy notes.

A fruiyy dark beer made with some exotic ingredients. The bitterness of this beer makes it some better as the oxfam blond

New year’s day, Snuffel Hostel, Bruges. Mahogany pour with a reddish halo and a creamy beige head. Lines the glass with lace. Sweet, strawberryish snout. Mildly roasty licorice bitterness lingering unpleasantly after the swallow. A hint of spicy oddness and strawberry-like fruit. Drinks well below the ABV. Refreshing enough, but like the blonde tastes a bit fake and thrown-together.

(Bottled) Hazy, dark red color with a smallish, slightly tanned head. Ginger-ginsengy aroma with a hint of sourish malt, metal and alcohol. Ginger-spicy flavor, very similar to the blonde version, but with maybe a hint of ashy-roasty malt, more sourness, and more pronounced alcohol. Light to medium-bodied, a bit thin and alcoholic palate with high and foamy carbonation. Not as drinkable as the blonde version, IMO. Won’t buy again (either of them).

Bottle, 7.5% at the Snuffel Hostel in Brugge. Hazy brown colour with small floaties. Small, stable, creamy light brown head. The flavour is slightly sweet with a quite bitter roastedness. Seems to get a little sourness from the hops. Hint of yeast and alcohol in the aftertaste.