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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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 Gr0ve (1382), Oslo, Norway
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/511/20
Jul 22, 2007  
330 ml bottle. Clear amber colour. Medium-sized white head. Nutty caramel aromas. Notes of burnt caramel. Hints of physalis. Light-bodied. Some mellow caramel malts, but overall t is not really particularly interesting. OK, but nothing more.


 doublebock (196), USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/516/20
Jul 20, 2007  
Golden tranlucent color, lemony scent. Taste is slightly malty, sour with a spicy citrusy scent. Not much hops to speak of. Dry palate.


 jbrus (4835), Delft, Netherlands
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/53/102/56/20
Jul 12, 2007  
Bottled. Aroma is lactic with malts, caramel and herbs in the background. Amber color, beige irregular head, few lace. Sour, lactic, even vinegar, bit fruity, flat and thin. Something clearly went wrong somewhere.


 TheBeerBaron (218), Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/102/518/20
Jul 4, 2007  
Dark amber color, thick tan head but no carbonation in the glass. Rose and grapefruit aroma blending with a mild hop scent in the end. Medium palate without the intense carbonation of many belgium styles. Lemon and citrus flavor combined with strong representations of wheat give Bruegel a rounded flavor. A mild but persistant taste of hops rounds out an excellently put together beer. This brand is largely unknown in the States but it should be tried.


 badlizard (2325), Berkeley, California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20
Jun 25, 2007    Updated: Jun 26, 2007
330 mL bottle. brownish golden amber with a thin white head. Aroma of bread and yeast. Taste of a grainy wheat bread and yeast.


 hayduke (1620), Eureka, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/511/20
Jun 25, 2007  
Bottle. Poured a caramel colored brown with a fat off-white head and nice hunks of lacing. Nose is malts with strong caramel. Mouthfeel fizzy and not very enjoyable. Flavor is sweet, and there are lots of odd flavors. Not very enjoyable.


 luckygirl (1221), Boulder, Colorado, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/103/52/103/51/20
Jun 10, 2007  
Bottled. Beer is hazy, medium oxidized caramel brown with a large, off-white, frothy, mostly and rapidly diminishing head. Chunky lacing.<P>Smells horribly flawed. Malty with a light note of caramel; Hoppy with a trace of lemon zest; Otherwise it’s a pure diacetyl bomb. I can smell it from the table before I even touch the glass it’s so bad.<P>Moderately sweet, lightly acidic/juicy sour with a short, trace acidic and sweet very dirty finish.<P>The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.


 SSSteve (2047), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/512/20
Jun 9, 2007  
caramel colored beer with small off-white head. flavor is mostly caramel and toffee. medium-light bodied. nice sour caramel apple flavors but lacks in the aroma department.



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