Southampton Grand Cru

Brewed by Southampton Publick House
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Southampton, New York USA

bottle. hazy orange with a small white head. some yeast floaties are present too. mild tart fruit aroma, pears, spice, and bread. flavour is sweet and sticky with faint notes of alcohol. I found there to be some appley cider characteristics. pretty tasty but very sweet.

RBSG05 with a 2005 bottle. Sour, funky, mildly astringent aroma with hints of peppers. Doesn’t really smell like a belgian ale. Transparent orange honey color with small yellowish head. Slightly sweet start with some peppery sourness funk following. A bit astringent and warming. Kind of thin. I don’t know, I wasnt overly impressed with this sample...

woody, meaty, sweet & sour sauce aroma, cloudy burnt orange appearance, explosion of baklava sweetness with a soft creamy balance, just a touch of alcohol warmth before the woody lambicesque finish

2004 Bottle. Complex aroma and flavor that is sweet, fruity, and acidic as well. Interesting Belgian yeast strain. Slightly sour, but tons of other flavors that were more predominant. Different and a pleasant surprise.

Here is another beer I sampled at Tidiaguy’s residence and besides a rather sweet aroma, the fuity flavor really came out on me. It is too complex for me to really break it down to the varieties of fruit I sense in it. Its very good but didn’t seem totally balanced as the fruit tones seemed dominate, not that this is a bad thing.

New rating. Cloudy gold body with with an off white head. The aroma was cinnamon and vanilla, very floral. The taste was very sweet French Toast with some vanilla and peanuts. Still a weird beer and way to sweet. Poured a cloudy yellow with some chunks. The aroma had flowers and oranges. Also tomatoes. The taste was sweet honey with apples. There was also oranges, iced tea and moss. A strange one indeed.

This is the very awesome. i had the yeasty portion, but i still was lovin it. really acidic and heavy wheat bread flavors. carbonatin played out more than i expected. lots of fruit in this one, i got some lemon and strawberry and some melon??

Rich golden-copper hue with a foamy, white head. Whole grain bread, musty, lemon rind, watermelon, candi sugar. Moderately sweet, heavily acidic flavor becomes a moderately sweet, heavily acidic, lightly bitter finish. Medium-full body, velvety texture, fizzy carbonation. The bottom line is: Interesting, but not captivating for me. I’d like it with less acidity and less carbonation...it’s a little too bitting the way it is right now.