Christoffel Robertus

Brewed by Sint Christoffel Bier
Style: Vienna
Roermond, Netherlands

Bottel.33cl. Body starts with a mild caramel sweetness, turning drier and smoother toward the finish. hazy amber with a foamy tan head.

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.

A Ronnie beer, quite hazy, no head. Rich heady nose of malt and spice. Good body with a bit of malty sweetness, well balanced and surprisingly clean and flavoursome. Good stuff.

This beer was different, but enough that I actually liked it. Pours to a cloudy brownish gold, with an off-white head that dissipates soon, but leaves good lacing. Initial aroma is malty sweetness, nuts and caramel, but as the glass warms, the aroma is much more fruity, mostly apples and grapes. Flavor is a sour fruit, again, apples and grapes, and the finish is sour and dry, but good. It’s a shame this is not made any longer.

I don’t understand why this beer is rated so low. It is dead-on for the style. I didn’t think it was overly hoppy -- maybe the hops used were brighter than ones in most Viennas. Bready yet bright malt texture and texture.

From a 2L bottle at vanvenlo and lunkie’s place. The incredible fiery red colour hinted at the maltiness of this one. Clear, with decent head retention. Aroma is mostly toasty, spicy, decocted malt with a bit of weird clove. Quite light-bodied but with a really nice, subtle malt character and there’s a light acidity (wouldn’t describe it as "tart" or "sour") which makes it interesting. Good stuff - seems like it’d really endear itself to me if I were to have a session on it.
RR: Weird. It has all the nice hoppy, yeasty aroma that the Blond should have, but I just can’t get over the fact that it’s thin. Lacks malt, tastes adjuncty even. Still nice, but not particularly great.

1 Oct 05 - Big malt hop and some vinuos/spicy clove aromas. Light brown-red colour, good yellow-brown head. Slight spiritous flavour, vinuos and malty flavour. Dry hop finish and a lingering light maltiness, but the mouthfeel could be a bit thicker.

reddish appearance decent head with malty nose, malty taste, decent beer, not extraordinary