Petrus Oud Bruin

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Sour Ale
Harelbeke, Belgium

Clear brown pour with a short tan head. Caramel, oak, cherries, and funk in the nose. Sweet and sour bite with oak, malt, and green apples in the taste. Sour and dry finish.

Bottle. Cola like colour with almost no head or carbonation. Aroma of red fruits with a slightly sour edge. A bit woody in the mouth, the flavour was of caramel with some dark fruits. Finish was again slightly sour. Very drinkable for a beer of this ABV.

Sampled at Stone’s Sour Festival, July 2007. poured brown (or bruin, en vlaams) with a deent beige head. Malty aroma with some sour funk. And intersting mix of sour, sweet, malt and spicy, but not all together great. An interesting brew, but no the best that Belgium has to offer.

Bottle: pours a dark ruby with off-white and tan bubbles, sweet and sour fragrances, faint wood fragrance here and there, faint caramel sweetness and brown sugar fragrances, hints of a sour cider fragrance, flavors of dark malt, malt and sweet mixed with sour tart on the tongue, this was not as flavorful or intense as some other Flemish Sours, faint taste of chocolate, the sweet and sour flavors are there but not as big as some of the better Flemish Sours, medium carbonation, finishes dry leaving a small tartness on the palate.

33 cL bottle. Aroma of caramel malt and sour dark fruit. Color was ruby tinged brown, with a beige head that was furious and stayed. Definite sour note as the glass approaches the lips. Thin to medium bodied. Near creamy, from moderate carbonation. Not all that sweet, and there is a thrilling sour note running through it. Very pleasant. The malty sweetness is fairly balanced by the sour and light bitter. Not tremendously complex, but much more so than many. It really is nice to have in the mouth. The finish is touch of oak, dark fruit skin, touch of sour, a hint of bitter. Just excellent. Refreshing.

Bottle: Dark reddisch brown with a white thin head. Aroma was sweet malt and fruit touch. Medium body. Taste was complex sweet (caramel) malt, a bit souness to.

Dark brown with a fizzy white head. Slightly sour aroma with hints of oak and fruit. Taste commensurate with aroma, pretty good.

330ml bottle. Snifter. Deep amber or mahogany with a thin head. Aroma was of sour cherries and malt. Taste was quite sour with notes of green apples and vinegar. Thin mouthfeel. This one isn’t for me.