Wynkoop Faens Grüt

Brewed by Wynkoop Brewing Company
Style: Traditional Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Draught. Head is fully diminishing. Body is dark amber/red/purple. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted bread), with a strong note of rosemary. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Whew, lots of rosemary in the nose, clobbering almost everything else. Surprisingly light on both body and flavor in the mouth.

Draught @ Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado. Bright ruby color with a wispy head of large bubbles. Herbal aroma, bursting with rosemary, Italian spices (oregano), wheat grass and lemon. Very spicy and herbal flavor, extremely peppery with Italian flavors (sausage, brat), gale and oregano. Almost spicy, as in hot! Clearly no balance between the malt and spice here, nothing but spice and I prefer a more balanced Gruit beer. See Jopen Koyt for an unbelievable example.

A brown beer with a disappearing head. The aroma is very spicy with ginger standing out. The flavor is also very spicy with notes of ginger, wood, and berries (especially cow berries), leading to a dry end. OK, but nothing special.

tap at brewpub-pours a copper hue with a non-existent head! Big spicy aroma-literally like a spice cabnet-allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove-its all there! same with the flavors-allspice is the most present. kinda medicinal as it got warm. i didn’t get any bubblegum! This is a wierd and unique beer thats for shure

Copper color, not all that much head. Out of balance spicy aroma. Fruity flavors that turned kind of medicinal with hints of bubblegum.

Poured a copper color with a tight creamy off white head, no lacing. Aroma of spices, mint, and sweet bubblegum. More mint, possibly spearmint in the taste, Also a touch of heather flowers with light bitterness. Hopefully not one of this brewer’s best.

Full name is FAEN gruit! (draught) Fully hazy grey-amber. Slim ring of foam (logical with gruitbier). Peppery, ginger and I really can smell the bog-myrtle. Rosemary - not really, and I have no idea how yarrowroot is supposed to smell. Taste is ginger and medicinal, herbal, spicy - but not off-putting in any way. The spices and all seem to give it a mouthfeel that appears thicker than it really is. Certainly not thin or watery, but not really full-bodied neither. Leaves no spicy aftertaste, strangely. Very interesting - but it will never be a session beer, unless for medieval "poorters"?

Dark amber colour with ruby highlights. Thin tan head. Very strong rosemary smell with hints of peppercorn. Very strong rosemary taste with subtle hops and malt. A very interesting and innovative beer. The aftertaste is a bit watery, but not bad considering the strength of the other flavours. If you goto the brewpub, this one is a must-try! Overall, a very neat beer, which was one of my favourites from the evening! I had this on tap at the brewpub in Denver, Colorado on 12-August-2003.