t Smisje Speciaal

Brewed by Brouwerij De Regenboog
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium

Sampled on 2/16/07 on tap at Max’s 3rd Annual Belgian Beer Festival: Pours a transparent bright golden with a thin, short-lived ring of white head. Aroma of sweet pale Belgian malt with some biscuity notes and earthy fruitiness. Body starts with a fairly full, but still viscous, sweet toffee maltiness with some mild pumpkin fruitiness toward a slightly tart, earthy finish. An interesting brew.

Draft. Amber beer with a whitish head. Low malt aroma. Nice fruity esters (peach) with malt backing, slight yeast, and some tartness. Lingering fruit. Easy to drink.

On the night of Halloween 2005. The color is like heather honey and just as clouded. The aroma is sweet with notes of pumpkin and plum. The same goes for the flavour, that is very sweet and has additional notes of alcohol and candy sugar. I both like and dislike it, and I’m sure I couldn’t drink the entire 33 cl. bottle myself without a cloying feeling.

Bottle @ Plan B, Copenhagen. Light gold, great foam. Great aroma of sweet wild fruits. Lovely character and taste with sweet fruits, apple and plum. Unique, wild and pure Belgian. A lovely brew!

Bottled. Amber coloured. Unclear. Dense light brown head. Alcohol, yeast, fruits and light liqourice in the aroma. Flavour is full of liqourice as well. Sweetness, fruits, spiced and loads of alcohol. Very well balanced and quite complex. .Medium to full bodied. Loads of fruits and alcoholwarmth on the lips in the end. Alcohol is scaringly well hidden.

Bottled. Perfect, glowing pumpkin colour with creamy white head. Lovely lace. Spicy nose with pumpkin and carrot cake (a dessert that smells better than it tastes). Just right spice in the taste with pumpkin pulp, malt, liqourice and nuts. Creamy mouthfeel - much like a cream soda. Unique and really very good. I’d have it again anytime.

Darker blond coloured, with some very light carbonation and a small white head. Very strange fruity alcoholic herby pumpkin aroma. Full palate, sweet fruity like, creamy touches. Finish is weird, somewhat smoked, herby, pumpkin touches. Bizar.

Orangey-brown, decent head. Aroma of veggie soup carries through to mild flavor, soft and sweet with notable alcohol but a few hops to help redeem it. But not quite enough.