Brooklyn Grand Cru

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Brooklyn, New York USA

draft @ redlight redlight. Candi sugar on the nose, sweet candied fruits. Pours cloudy blonde with a very thick white head. Sweet bananas, fresh apricots, sweet light figs, with hints of spices, maybe corriander or grains of paradise like flavors lurking in the back ground. Pretty damn good.

On tap at Ginger Man NY. Hazy golden with soft white ring head. Faint candy sugar and yeast aroma. Vanilla apricot sweet fruitiness with mild spice and candy sugar cloying finish with slight carbo bite. Medium body and carbo. Very sweet but fresh and fairly complex. Pretty good.

Draft at Max’s Taphouse, Baltimore. This is a top notch example of an American Belgian Ale in my opinion. Yellow golden straw color, slightly transparent. Big and lively head. Huge sweet Belgian candi-sugar aroma. The taste is awesome, big yeasty characteristics among the sweetness. Perfect mouthfeel. Well Done.

Orange in color with minimal white head. Aroma is a bit faint, but contains sweet peachy notes with vanilla and cloves. Taste is much the same, with a combined spectrum of sweet and fruity that is rather like that of a creamsicle. Interesting, but not something I want a liter at a time. $6.50/13oz draft

Tap @ Blind Tiger. Pours a clear golden color with a small but lingering white head. Aroma is slight clove and banana, with vanilla detectable as well. Taste is the same, with the flavors delicately dancing across the tongue. Finish is vanilla, which is a vast upgrade from the usual watery finish of Brooklyn’s Belgian ales. I was incredibly surprised by this one, and I hope their future Belgian offerings are the same high quality.

Never thought I would find this on and finally did while in Orlando. Pale clear golden color with a thin white head that stuck around. beautiful smooth mouth feel. Sweet mild taste of vanilla, bananas with bit of yeast. Great overall beer.

Growler from Bierkraft. Hazy pale golden colour topped by a thick fluffy/sticky white head. Aroma is quite rich and fruity. Soft banana and orange peel with a rich pale Belgian malt sweetness. Softly fruity with loads of banana and orange along with sweet bubble gum. They have a pretty tasty yeast, although it leaves the beer fairly sweet. Very aromatic with lots of sweet estery fruitiness (apple, pear, and banana). Light clove and allspice on the finish. It’s well-made and quite tasty.

Draught at TDR Exton: Sweet aroma with notes of fruits, candy, spices, and yeast. Complex with a lot of fruits. Poured dark yellow with a hint of orange in color and a small white head. Cloudy. Opaque. Good lacing. Medium sweet, complex flavor. Tastes of bubblegum, yeast, fruit, Red Bull, spices, and vanilla. Medium body. Average texture. Average carbonation. Sweet, bubblegum finish.