Struise Pannepøt

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Oostvleteren, Belgium

2006 Danish label at Uber in Seattle Washington. Dark maroon, murky. Sourish caramel aroma, but much sweeter taste and a butterscotch finish. Bizarre, in an interesting sort of way.

I like this brew but its not as full bodied as the Belgian version. A little lighter but the great flavors are still here. Had this one side by side with the Belgian version and there is a difference. The awesome earthy flavors are here along with the spice and fruity flavors the yeast pulls out of the grain. A great brew and worthy of its time on the table.

Dark brown brew with beautiful longlasting beige head. Aroma is very complex and is very Rochfort 10 like. Caramel, malts, nuts, candi and some coffee are the major aromas. the taste is like bread, peanutspread, caramel lots of rich malts and some well hidden body heating alcohol. In some way this beer reminds me to Westy 12. Great beer but I like the original better.

2006. Nice dark brown pour with some off-white lacing from the thin head. Aroma is quite mild, raisin, nuts, syrup, tobacco. The flavor is excellent. The flavor begins with dark fruits, plums and raisins, along with some very mild licorice. This is complimented by a vanilla character that ties everything together very nicely. About midway through, an awesome maple candy quality comes into the picture and makes for a very long, very sweet finish. The mouthfeel is like velvet. Very good beer.

great belgain strong dark ale...super great dried fruit nose and great complex malty and fruity goodness....one of my favorite belgian dark ales

20081130 11.2oz bottle and I forget where I got it but it wasn’t local. Maybe Capone’s. Nearly opaque dark maple syrup color with medium, lasting, even head of uniformly sized medium foam. Aroma is rich, spicy (savory), and seasonal with notes of nuts, roasted squash, plump raisin, vanilla, and rum. With the chill and onset of winter, this beer is a fine choice on a dreary day. Flavor is an interesting amalgam of standard Belgie strong ale flavors but also some sweet American influence, with temp perhaps a touch too sweet, and a long savory finish again reminding of caramelized roasted foods. Medium-full palate is fully appropriate and strong alcohol is mostly unnoticed except for the nice buzz. Good beer.

2006 ‘vintage’. Another Struise gusher. Usual tactic of easing the cap off and standing it in a Hoey glass to catch the lava flow of suds. Pours mahogany with a blossoming yellow-beige head; unearthly foam sculptures collapsing to a slick in minutes, in a variety of glasses. Aroma up-the-nose liquorice stick, cinder toffee, yeast extract, sweet (straw)berryish fruits, plum. Mouth creamy, sticky, slightly burnt once it’s really been standing a while…brazen liquorice, candi sugar, faint cocoa. Not really getting any obvious spicing. Bit of vanilla, stone fruit, prune in the aftertaste. Roasted malt traces, maybe. Alcohol nicely buried by sugar and liquorice. Sweetish and unsubtle, touch of peaty malt. Pretty standard, liquorice-driven Dubbel-like flavours turned up a notch. Missing the bite of hops or yeast, but hugely drinkable. Nice beer. 747315 (Re-rate). 2006 again, to take the taste of a Leroy ’Stout’ away. Robustly malt-accented aroma evoking Germany more than Belgium with noseful of sticky raisin, demerara, licorice and malt loaf. Warm of booze humming softly with fruit loaf and muscovado; liquorice detectable but alcohol (flavours) not. Wholesome malty sipper mellowing with age into a murderously sessionable hybrid of dubbel and doppelbock. At 10%. The devils.

(EBF 2008) Amber color, small head. Yeasty, fruity, nutty aroma, some hops. Hoppy, yeasty flavor with some sweeter notes, some fruit.