Bolivar Bruin

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

Bottle 33cl. @ [ Ulfborg Tasting ].
Clear medium amber brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, brown sugar, moderate yeasty, coriander, licorice - anis - anis seed. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20081202]

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.

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.

Dark amber color; nice head. Quite nice malty aroma. It tastes really like a homebrew stuff, with too much yeast impression; there is also a lot of caramel, it’s pretty dry. At the end the alcohol burns too much the tongue; the bitterness is high.

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.

Bottle, bought @ Willems, Grobbendonk.
Pours brown with some red edges. A medium, fizzy, beige head on top. Aroma is a tad metallic, otherwise has roasted notes, Belgian sugars, a herbal edge and liqourice. High and lively carbonation, on top of an otherwise fair mouthfeel. Flavour is fine. Some maltiness, a little chocolate, some liqourice and a great deal of a herbal finish. There is pepper, cinnamon, anis in there. If only they had held back the carbonation, this might have been quite nice.

brewed with rice, quinoa and cane sugar - hazy dark brown colour with a little beige foam; aroma of matured fruits (banana and lychees), caramel and some undefined spices; sweet, tart and very carbonated which makes it difficult to drink but does not hide the unclean, unregular malt body; very short and dry bitter spicy finish - harsh; not really a fair trade to me

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...