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Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale


 Percentile 
50
overall
Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Belgian Ale

Brooklyn, New York USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
493.09/5.03.07/5.0Special5%37.2Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
While many American beer aficionados enjoy Belgium’s strong specialty ales, we’ve also enjoyed Belgium’s excellent pale ales, on draft at every bar in Antwerp. Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale is our homage to those beers, which have spicy, floral aromatics and mild, biscuity flavors on the palate. These beers are great with choucroute – the tasty local dish of sausages, thick-cut ham and sauerkraut – and with a wide range of other foods. These beers taste brilliant in Belgium, but frankly, by the time they reach our shores, they’re usually a bit tired. We thought it would be fun to bring this beer style to you brewery-fresh. Like the originals, we’ve brewed Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale from lightly caramelized European malts and fermented the beer with a special Belgian yeast at unusually high temperatures. After a few weeks of ageing, the beer is filtered and emerges bright amber. At a sessionable 5% by volume, this is a flavorful beer you can stick with for the evening.
Malts: German Munich and Pilsner malts, Belgian Aromatic malt.
Hops: Hallertauer Perle and Czech Saaz
OG: 12.5° Plato
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 Goodgrief (1144), Middletown, Delaware, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Feb 19, 2008  
Mar. 2007 - Pour was an odd light orange color, decent head, no lacing. Weird yeasty flavor. Light flavor of mild citrus, some biscuity flavors and sweet malts and a touch of mild spices. Doesn’t taste very Belgian-esque. Odd.


 apoptosis (1316), Long Island, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Oct 27, 2007  
On tap at the Blind Tiger...Sticky, aspartame-like sweetness makes the finish too much for me. It has a lot of citrus, honey and melon and is overall very fruity. But it is not a lightly-flavored, summery beer IMHO. The aroma is mild and floral. Interesting, eclectic hop blend in here. Highly malty and bread.


 notalush (2628), Denver, Colorado, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Oct 20, 2007  
Tap at Blind Tiger - hazy orange beer - zesty, citrusy aroma, but devoid of hops, so the citrus is more a fruity ester smell - light bodied and tangy - slight orange fruitiness, followed by bready flavors and a chalky, milky quality - a bit acidic - it started burning my stomach halfway through the pint.


 muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/102/511/20
Jul 19, 2007  
20 ounce Imperial pint on draught at the Blue Tusk, Syracuse, June 27 2007. A bit of head dies into a thin coating atop the bright translucent copper body....lightly yeasty, honeysih aroma, faint pale malts and an even fainter herbal essence....dry, tart and a bit grapy on the tongue; tastes rather old or spolied, overattenuated, watery and thin....more like a weak Oktoberfest than any kind of Belgian style, and not a good one at that.


 thenick (742), North Bellmore, New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/512/20
Jul 17, 2007  
Tap @ Croxley Ales, Rockville Centre, NY. Pours a cloudy golden-amber. Aroma largely of citrus and hops. Taste is the same, but the beer is overall a bit too watery. It seems to be an homage to the Belgian Pale Ales, and if so you’re better off with De Dolle Arabier or La Caracole Saxo.


 WISEGUY572 (1244), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/103/515/20
Jul 9, 2007  
Not great but a great surprise from Brooklyn. Cloudy amber, big vanishing foamy head. Citrus and yeast, nutty tannic finish and mouthfeel. Light and refreshing and an easy drinking Belgian style.


 wheninhell (485), louisville, Kentucky, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Jul 3, 2007  
on tap at Rich O’s. clear orange amber with a diminishing white head. light orange aroma with some light caramel notes. nice balanced bittersweet orange caramel flavor with light bready undertones. bittersweet orange caramel finish. light body lively carbonation. nice light refreshing.


 Maverick34 (686), New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20
Jun 23, 2007  
Draft at the brewery. Not a ton of taste, pours reddish brown. Kind of weak for my taste.



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