Struise Pannepøt

fantastic, it has high malts, caramel and toffee. this beer would go great with a hearty beef dish.

The aroma is sweet with dark fruit, brown sugar, malt, and leaves. The appearance is light brown/red with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. This is good but overrated.

Bottle tasted at Uber Tavern. So I have not been able to do the vertical test with the darker Pannepot, so I feel a bit blind in this rating. Regardless, I picked up many of the same notes from the cousin in this beer, just with a much rounder and less potent presence. Still chocolatey, mildly roasty and sweet, plum still exists, even a bit of banana. Lots of spice thrown in the mix. Mainly, its almost the same to me, just without the punch. Excellent beer!

33cl bottle at home: Very deep and dark hazy chestnut brown, almost black. Bubbly medium dark head collapses somewhat quickly. Aromas of dark malt, brown sugar, and raisins. Coffee and tree-bark add a nice earth note. Dark spices run underneath the sweetness. A bit of aniseed. Alcohol is easily roused from the glass. Starts out quite sweet in the mouth. Moves to sugared mocha latte for a second before roast and alcohol break things up a bit. Sweet caramel malt. Alcohol soaked prunes come and go in the middle. Something lightly tangy, for lack of a better word, plays with the alcohol and sugar. Towards the end there is again prune but this time with alcohol and a touch of molasses. A touch of oxidation perhaps on the end too? Full mouthfeel with an odd dustiness on the tip of the tongue. Very nice beer, but I prefer the original pannepot.

Pours dark caramel with no head. Nose is toffee, caramel, dried fruit. The flavor is the same with a strange tangy fruit finish.