Bos Grand Cru

Formerly brewed at Bos Brewery and Bistro
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Pontiac, Michigan USA

2001 Vintage: The brewer pulled this bottle out of his secret stash for us during our stop. Clear gold with nice legs. Very nice aroma. Sweet with candy, clove and other spices. Big honey nose as well. The flavor was sweet with honey and malt. The finish was spiced. After the malt stops the honey keeps going. It isn’t over powering though which to me makes it good since I am not a huge honey fan. Yet this was great. The mouthfeel was still lively with a medium to full body. Nicely warming with hints of alcohol pepper at the end. The brewer, Mr. Burns, said he uses honey, cardamom and saffron. Anyway I loved it. It aged great.

Name: Grand Cru
Date: 04/27/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brewpub
Vintage: 2001

clear golden, sweet aroma with wonderful spices and great honey, nice body, sweet honey flavor, nice spices, inspired by and surpasses Midas Touch

Aroma: 10/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Tasted blind. 12oz unlabeled bottle (probably an 06 or 05 bottle). Surprising herbal nose. Smells like incense, sandalwood and wild wax. Indescribable. Impressive and complex. Light fruits. Pours a peachy blonde with a rim of white. Flavor is ridiculous. Tastes like Christmas. Full of orange and sage. Incense, perfume, Mexican candy, and waxy cactus flavor. Crazy pumpkin spice, Thanksgiving fruit. Apparently 14%, but tastes more like 4%. Complex savory character. Intensely flavored. Fuck, this is delicious. Amazing spice character, like I’ve never seen before. Fantastic spicing. Dry. Great amazing blend of spice and citrus on a mild malt character.Wow. This is amazing. Gingerbread and deliciousness. Complex, mature, well-aged. Thanks Sean!

Draft at 2004 MBG Summer Festival. Poured a large sized foamy ivory head with fine-small sized bubbles that completely dissipated. Uncarbonated, hazy and a brown hue. Malty and alcohol aroma. The flavor was malty and alcohol from start to finish. Smooth palate. Medium bodied beer with fair lacing.

Sampled draught at the Michigan Brewers Fest. Reddish-amber with a lasting touch of white head...nose a fascinating mix of herbs with a touch of underlying caramel sweetness, rosemary and thyme amidst roiling doughy yeast...very very sweet body, honey-maple character at first, herbs coming in though covered in sugar, towards the end dryness, peppery alcohol and lots of bready yeast implode on the sated tongue...worked for me, fascinating.

Draught. At 2006 Michigan Brewers’ Guild Festival. Clear orange with a small white head. Slightly woody, nutty sweet caramel malt aroma, juicy and spicy, there’s oak and alcohol in there too. Tastes just like it smells, plenty of citrus, wood character, spicy yeast and very strong in alcohol, very ear-warming. Thick body, syrupy and boozy, there’s plenty going on here - more like a fruity-sweet barleywine, no harshness at all, I liked it a lot.

2001 bottle shared by the brewmaster at the brewpub on 4/27/06: Still viscous golden bronze pour has a thin ring of bubble atop. Sweet candy floral honey, lightly spiced, complex, rich malty aroma. Starts with a sweet floral candy-like honey flavor with saffron spice and well-dissolved carbonation that gives more body. A very unique brew that’s like drinking molten honey complexity.

Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival Saturday July 24, 2004. This draft brew poured a very large invigorated head of finely sized white colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body was hazy uncarbonated and brown in color. The aroma was mild for a Belgian style with only the malts coming through. The mouth feel was initially strong and malty then finished with a vinous malt like bite. The flavor was good for a Grand Cru with a lot of malt coming through.