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Bruegel

Bruegel - Belgian Ale

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 Percentile 
42
overall
Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Ale

Ertvelde, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4742.96/5.02.96/5.05.2%29Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
Bruegel is an easy drinking soft and tasty amber ale. Thanks to the refermentation it offers more body, more head and more taste than most other American and Belgian Amber ales. It is brewed with Dutch barley and German hops. Although the bitterness is clearly present, it is not dominant.
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 FatPhil (3443), Espoo, Finland
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/103/511/20
Dec 30, 2007  
Draught (Dickens, Riga) Dark orange, thin head. Sweet mild aroma. Creamy mellow sweet malty taste, some hops follow - but not many, a bit nutty and maybe soapy a touch. OK, but a bit soft - needs more guts.


 ShawnMalloy (119), Auburn, Massachusetts, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/514/20
Dec 25, 2007  
Pours a light orange with a thick white head. A tad hoppy on the nose with a big sense of fermenting yeast . Taste is confusing. Not too sweet. Not too hoppy. An odd mixture. The finish is where it balances out.


 Snojerk321 (1914), San Diego, California, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Dec 10, 2007  
bottle. Beer poured a clear amber with a thin off white head that left little lacing. Brew was very similar to a domestice amber like Karl Strauss.


 Pwn3d (1036), Manhattan, New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/512/20
Dec 3, 2007  
Pours dark amber. Decent carbonation that goes down smooth, very pleasant malty taste with strange but not offensive cold metallic favor in the finish. I nice choice if you dont want a Belgian Ale with 9+ %


 wilderthanyou (408), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/513/20
Dec 2, 2007  
The beer pours a dark, slightly cloudy amber with a thin, beige head. The aroma of carboard, urine, and damp wood. The flavour thankfully doesn’t taste like the aroma, with a decent malty base, and some hop bitterness at the end. Really rather straight forward, expected something more complex. Not a bad beer, but certainly not a great one either.


 JoeMcPhee (4893), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/511/20
Dec 2, 2007  
Amber colour, white head. toasty aroma, fairly chewy and sweet with a light dried apricot and pear aroma. Light plumminess and a sweet richness. Lingering earthiness and toasted malt.


exadore (92), Sacramento, California, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/512/20
Nov 22, 2007  
Bottle. Poured with a finger high white head, with a rusty red color to the body. Smells fairly bitter, and fairly fruity. Good lacing. Good balance, being initially malty, and finishing bitter and smooth. Its alright, but I think its darker than what is representative of the style.


 yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Nov 16, 2007  
33Cl bottle, 5.2% a/v Pours a dark red tea colour with some haze. A smallish but compact off white head. Smells fruity as well as dark malt. Taste is also fruity cherry/berries with a hop based citric taste as well. The mouthfeel is somewhat thin, but a nice sweet and mellow flavour stay with you. Nice beer.



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