Bruegel

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

11.2 oz bottle Pours a crystal clear amber with an off white head. Good lacing but didn’t last long. Aroma is good. Malty with just enough sweetness to make it very tempting. I get a touch honey and pears. Taste is very smooth. A light body with great flavors. The alcohol is well hidden. This is a very tasty beer. Two thumbs up.

Typical abbey ale -- moderate malts, restrained hops, faint spices and honey, thin body, rather dry. For a Belgian ale, I would have preferred more prominent spices. Pleasant conversation beer but not spectacular.

Pours a clear medium orange gold with a miniscule amount of white head. Aroma is extremely sweet of caramel and butterscotch. Flavor is sweet, but then a bitter dry finish. Overall, very very lousy beer for the price.

Honey-red pour, strong aroma of butterscotch and dried apricots, heavily malty with honey and caramel, faint hop flavor. Unusual for an amber, even a Belgian--the butterscotch was almost overwhelming, to me.

Though I am not familiar with too many Belgians, my guess is this beer is about as average as they come. Nothing to write home about. It poured a clear amber with an inch of amber foam. Easy drinking and it may qualify as a good session beer.

Bottle. Pours a clear bubbly orange-amber with a large lasting fizzy white head. Nice lacing. Sweet aroma of yeast, fruit, caramel malt, spices and a mild sourness. Flavour follows the aroma and surprises with a nice mild bitter finish. Fizzy and dry, it goes down smooth. Thin bodied. Pretty good.

Nice toasty caramel malt notes in the nose, soft esters in the background invite you to take a taste, unfortunately the wet cardboard/paper notes scream of oxidation and a sharp tart off-flavors are reminescent of spoilage. I would like to taste this again as it showed promise as being a enjoyable belgian and if a fresher sample came way it would probably deem a higher rating.

Below average beer, especially for a belgian. Aroma was salty, like a sweaty ice rink. Color was nice murky red. Flavor was stale honey and malt, with little hops.