Christoffel Robertus

This Vienna pours a deep brown color from a 330ml flip-top bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is malty and sweet, salty and smoky. A medium bodied Vienna. Malts are caramel and sweet, somewhat smoky and salty. Not quite ham like but close. Hops are floral and earthy. Touch of honey at the finish. Strange beer, its smoky, salty and sweet. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

This beer pours a reddish color with a bubbly white head sparsely dispersed with little lacing. The aroma is smoky with almost a salted ham smell and perhaps some jerky. Smells just like honey baked ham. Smoky flavor mixed with salt, sugar candy and vanilla. As it warms its like eating a cinnamon hard candy from the olive garden. Some hints of caramel. Dry finish, sometimes inextricably sweet. Carbonation levels are relatively mild, even weak at times. Still cant get over the salty meat funkiness of this beer. Bottled in 06/2006. Tastes just like a hard candy id eat after a meal and trust me they get old quick.

Bottled. Orange-brown, hazy beer with a small off-white head. Caramel and some spicyness in the nose. Caramel, spice and hops in the flavor, with a medium body. Decent beer. (060819)

After the superb Blond (can’t believe I just wrote that, surely brunettes are better than blondes...) this one just didn’t move a mountain, so to speak.
From the bottle at the Cambrinus bar in lovely Rotterdam, Holland.
Into a Christoffel flute a little too chilled. Reddish copper in body, quite deep, mysterious, adorned by a limp, soapy white head that, although didn’t excite, did manage to last a session and work magic on the glass. Its dusty but rich in the aroma, a lot of chocolate tones and a drier edge of wood build it out with just a side of tangy, ripe dark fruit. Very pleasant. It differs in the mouth greatly. It is sadly fizzy, light bodied and has a presence of alcohol unbecoming of its modest ABV. Notes of toffee, crushed peanuts, pecans and almond-meal, and a little savoury fruit - like sultanas and raisins - raise it a little but it becomes non-dimensional by the end, and as it warms shows a little micro-metal dust on the palate, a little oxidation (not good for a fresh sample). Equally, though, this wasn’t too bad a beer against some of the, well, others (..and I still prefer a brune... aah, bugger it!). Quaffing material atleast. (33cL, BBE 04/06)

Bottle. Red-brown colour with slight off-white head that dissappears quickly. Weak fruity aroma with malty sweetness. The taste is a bit nutty with caramel sweetness.

Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet malty caramel. Flavour is sweet caramel, malt, apple.

clear brown with a reddish hew. Little white head. Aroma of malts.(caramel) Flavor has little sweetness from the malts. Medium filling body. Ok pleasant finish.

On tap. Clear reddish color. Low carbonation, no head. Nutty aroma. Sour taste and a dry finish.