Petrus Winterbier

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

Deep yellow. Nose soapy, a few thin malts. Bad flavor at best, some vague fruitiness, but mostly it’s thin, harsh, and a bit toasty, quite skunked, tasting like a crappy cheap lager of some sort. I’d say this was a bad bottle, but lots of people seem to also think it’s crap.

Bottled- Pours cloudy, burnt amber color with a large, frothy off-white head. Yeasty aroma with a hint of caramel and berries. Very sweet, thin malt taste. Over carbonated with tiny little bubbles. Re-Rate. Pours a clear amber color with a big, frothy, ivory head. Rather faint malt aroma with yeast and fruit notes. Thick flavor with roasted malt, licorice, and fruit. Very metallic and dry.

Draft at the Abbaye. Light brown ale, no head, no lace, nice carbonation. Flavor is thin, clean, and dry. A bit of a let down given that it is Belgian, on draft, and a winter seasonal. Nothing special here.

Mild gusher. Completely fills my Duvel galss with a dark topaz liquid and BIG beige bubbles. Mild aromas of Pale malt, bananas, toffee and hints of iron. Lots of carbonization to this one, light and spritzy in feel, not te distracting kind of spritzy, more of the campagne type that gives the liquid life and lift. But the flavor could use a lift. Pale malt with a touch of lemon citrus and some iron. Not much to this one.

bottled. unexciting shade of amber. not a whole lot going on. quite syruppy with plenty of strawberry jam flavour

Mild toffe, vinuous quality... a bit tart and syrpy. Dark malt sweetness but not bitter chocolate, more like maple or molasses

Again, another Belgian with an amazing tendency to explode from the bottle. The yeast here is actually surprisingly mellow in contrast to the rest of the flavor, which is fruity, musty, and a touch cidery. Slightly sour, but enough malt base to keep it grounded as well as keep it within the "holiday ale" spectrum.

hazy orange and a few too many floaters, even for me. I like floaters. aroma of dark bready malt, molasses, and syrup. flavours is dark and sweet with some brown sugar and vanilla with a bit of chocolate. finishes a little tart.