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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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 Jwasciuk (194), Lowell, Michigan, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/53/103/54/20
Aug 22, 2006  
Aroma is lightly malty like dark bread and toasted nuts and cheese. It pours clear amber with a creamy off white mostly lasting head. It is lightly sweet and acetic and sour with an avrage finish duration. Lithe to medium bodied creamy and soft and a bit metallic. I probably wont get this again, not impressed


 thegreenrooster (1811), St.louis, Missouri, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Aug 11, 2006  
Pour is a clear yellow with a fizzy white head. Aroma is a sour bready with a hint of skunk. Flavor is sweet and hoppy but not much else. Slightly bland and boring. This is the boring beer of Belgium.


 DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Aug 8, 2006  
Bottle from Super Saver. Deep golden pour with 1-finger white head. Aroma of bready malt, hopcitrus, some corn. The flavor was citrusy, lemongrassy, limey, with some bready malt, honey, and hop notes.


 bitbucket (2024), Kirkland, Washington, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/514/20
Aug 7, 2006  
Bottled. Pours a clear amber with a lacy cream-colored head. The body is medium with medium carbonation. Corriander, toffee and fruit in the nose. The taste is caramel and fruit with a bit of corriander and cloves in the in the ever-so-slightly bitter finish. No out standing characteristics, but no problems either. This would be a hugely sessionable beer.


 yngwie (4880), Kristiansand, Norway
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Aug 7, 2006  
Bottled. Clear, sparkling, amber ale with a decent beige head. Strange aroma with some sour note, caramel and hops. The flavor is fruity and honey-like, with hops. Thin body and a finish with sweetness and fruityness. Strange, but not bad. The finish lasts long, with a fruity hoppiness. Strange, but not bad beer. (060807)


Beerio (48), USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/103/52/102/52/20
Jul 20, 2006  
The aroma really put me off. It’s difficult to accurately describe the nose, other than to simply state that it has a sour scent; somewhat akin to raw poultry. It tastes mediocre, but I cannot get by the smell.


 KingpinIPA (842), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/515/20
Jul 18, 2006  
Golden tan color. Smell of caramel, grahmcrackers and honey. Taste of grahmcrackers, fruit, malt, honey and caramel. Dry white wine finish at the end.


 piscator34 (1121), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 17, 2006  
Medium amber in colour with average carbonation. Aromas of caramel and vanilla custard (an unusual combo, yet quite nice). More caramel and custeard in the mouth, along with some notes of dried fruit (especially banana chips), burnt sugar, and spicy Belgian yeast. Medium bodied, but on the light side for the style. This isn’t one of those super complex high octane Belgians, but I still really enjoyed it. A Belgian session ale perhaps... if such a thing even exists?



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