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Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale 3.07 49

Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale


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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
493.09/5.03.07/5.0Special5%37.2Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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
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 TomDecapolis (3195), Skippack, Pennsylvania, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
May 18, 2007  
On tap at Blue Dog Pub in Lansdale. Pours a translucent golden amber with a foamy/bubbly off white head. Aroma of floral, citrus and grainy notes. Flavor of grainy malts, tea, touch of honey...not really what I was expecting.


 Tmoney99 (4769), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/514/20
May 18, 2007  
Draft from growler from Party Town. Poured clear reddish amber color with an minimal fizzy white head that diminished slowly with fair lacing. Moderate spicy fruit aroma. Medium body with a slick texture. Medium spicy sweet flavor with a medium sweet fruity finish of moderate duration. Interesting drinkable brew.


 shigadeyo (2263), Harrison, Ohio, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20
May 16, 2007  
5/16/2007: Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale pours a very clear, bright coppery-bronze color. It has a frothy beige head and very little visible carbonation. Light malt, citrus, and a delicate spice are evident in the aroma. The flavor seems bready/doughy (biscuit) with some light fruitiness, a hint of caramel, and some citrus and lightly spicy hop notes. Overall this beer is very well balanced with a bit of dryness part way in and through the finish. The palate is soft, smooth, clean, but a bit thin at times. Like all Brooklyn brews, this one is well made, extremely drinkable and not offensive. Brooklyn Antwerpen Ale is good, but nothing special as there is nothing that really really sets this beer apart from others made in the same style... Draught (i.e. growler from Party Town).


 rocbyter (921), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
May 13, 2007  
On tap at My Place in Newtown, CT. Grainy malt aroma with hints of yeast. Dark orange color. Mellow caramel malts flavor and slight amount of fruityness. Not bitter in the finish.


 JAF737300 (797), Tampa, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/513/20
May 11, 2007  
A Belgian Ale style this pours somewhat dark amber with a thick head. The aromas show spicy and fruity but not as much as a big Belgian. The mouthfeel is deeper hops and malts that show some light notes of caramel. Had this at the Brewery.


 unclemattie (2428), Georgia, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/510/20
May 10, 2007  
02May07 on tap @TacoMac. Disappointing. You would almost expect it to be a Duval Clone by the description, Whoops. Amber color. not much aroma. malt ok. smoe balance. Its like a dark house beer in some crap town of the touristy parts of Europe. Not Impressed.


 Dogbrick (2864), Columbus, Ohio, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
May 9, 2007  
Sample at Firewaters in Atlantic City. This brew is a dark amber color with a wispy white head and minimal lacing. The aroma is mild toasted malt and hops. Medium-bodied with fruit and earthy malt flavoring. Some hops show up here and there but they never fully shine through. The finish is dry and mildly bitter. Not a bad beer, yet somehow a letdown given the quality of the majority of Brooklyn’s other beers.


 ABUSEDGOAT (1934), California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
May 1, 2007  
tap: darker amber with decent lacing and retention. Aroma is very similar to an American Amber Ale. However, the hops are European as are most of the malts. Caramel and toast dominate with lesser fruity notes, although the hops are detectable. Light bodied, watery texture. Sorta like a hybrid of a Vienna and an Amber. Either way it was still forgettable.



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