Bruegel

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Ale
Ertvelde, Belgium

This amber ale poured with a thin off-white head, eliciting a fruity aroma. The flavor is bready with a carbonate mouthfeel and an astringet fruity finish. The body is way too thin.

Bottle at home. bread, grass, amber, clear, aminimal head, light sweetness, light body, lively,

From a small bottle, poured a burnt orange-copper body with a small fizzy white head. Sweet, chalky aroma of maltiness. Brown sugar and sweet fruit nectar finish. Not spectacular, but not bad either.

330 ml bottle. pours orangeish/gold with a small fizzy white head that is soon gone. sweet aromas, also some cardboard. flavours are of bad amber ale. nothing belgian about it. it might as well be old credit amber. poor effort.

Flat tasting. But I don’t think that it’s this beers fault. My friend and I got this in a 6-pack of Belgium beers and every one of them so far has gizzed all over the place when we open them up. I think that that has been altering the taste. I actually like Newcastle more than I like this. It kinda has a similar taste but not as good. I really think that it was the spewing that screwed it up. It’s kinda sad. Drank this out of a tumbler.

Cloudy muddy brown color with a tiny ring of bubbles around the edge of the glass. Minimal aroma of dates and some dough. Flavor is very understated and almost water-like, just a bit of tart fruit then an empty palate. Slightly astringent. Medium bodied with decent carbonation. An odd little beer to say the least.

330 ml bottle. I went back and looked at some of the several hundred reviews. Lots of variablity on carbonation which might be expected but pretty consistent on taste. A bit yeasty with some nice malty flavor and a very clean finish. Not overwhelming in any way but low enough alcohol to have a few.

33 cl bottle. Part of a sampler six of vSteen. beers from <a href=http://ratebeer.com/Place/illinois/oak-forest in Oak Forest, meaning it may have set awhile without air conditioning. I’d think to start with the lightest abv beer, which would have suffered most. So, this one frothed over when opened, even after being in my fridge for two months. Healthy looking foam in the glass, but it shriveled away quickly. Managed to preserve a nice Belgian malt smell with a little sourness. Color is reddish-amber with gold outlines, a watercolor of a beer in my tulip glass. Millions of unfiltered particles well-distributed. Taste shows a little of that sourness that may be from getting warm, but not a bad off flavor. A bit of strawberry nectar, too. Golden pils or vienna level malt, offset by a little bitterness. Prickly carbonation. I’d have thought it bottle conditioned, but no yeast at the bottom. Kind of a less sour version of some old Jenlain Six I once had. Not bad. I’d hope to someday find an assuredly fresher one.