Belzebuth

Brewed by Brasserie Grain d’Orge
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ronchin, France

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Decent looking - orange with a smooth white head. smell of alcohol and wheat. taste is... geez... Karo syrup and vodka? High Fructose corn syrup and pure grain alcohol? This had been on my widhlist for a while and was really disapointing. Just nasty.

25 cL bottle, 13%. Thin transparent medium-golden pour with a light ring of white around the edge of the glass.. and some yeast suspended in there. Aroma was rather strong with pears, grapes, and alcohol abundant. Light-medium sweet & fruity malt base, with alcohol precluding much of the other flavor from hitting the taste buds. The sweetness and alcohol were somewhat cloying on the finish. I was able to pick out white pepper and light fruits from the flavor. This brew really lacked balance.

Belzebuth has a winelike aroma but virtually no hop or malt presence. The color is a deep golden but there is no head. There is some malty sweetness but it is overpowered by the alcohol.

The aroma is very malty and full of alcohol and yeast. The appearance is what I expected from the style and it does have nice lacing. The flavor is fruity, sweet, malty, full of alcohol, and it has a hint of maple syrup. The palate is smooth and the aftertaste is malty and sweet. Overall its very good.

UPDATED: JUN 16, 2006 Sampled at Palmer Place, LaGrange, IL. Very unpleasant in several ways: The alcohol presence was, shall we say, lacking in subtlety. Actually the fumes made me jerk away from the glass. The cloying sweetness was just awful, even in small leisurely sips. Never again! Rerate: First impression was, "What’s with all the floculate? My glass was loaded with white yeasties...some as big as a raisin. But my second tasting was that this might be my favorite French beer. i know that might be considered damning with faint praise. But the flavors of caramel, toffee, honey, and, yes, YEAST!!! was very well intermingled. I would probably bump this up to around a "3" or so.

Bottle. Pours a golden color, clear, some stringy looking floaties that don’t really look appetizing. Fair sized, dense, white head. Good lacing is left behind. Aroma is a bit funky, not really as boozy as I would have expected from some previous ratings. Lightly fruity perhaps. Fuller bodied and coating on the palate. Sweet with lots of residual sugar remaining. Alcohol is there but not really dominating. Really rather drab.

Deep golden color, fluffy of white foam. This beer has a warm flowery smell and toches of white bread and herbs. Taste is overpowered by the alcohol, it is smooth, flowery bitter and has hints of butter and herbs. The finish turns alcoholic bitter.

It’s so strong you can smell the alcohol along with candy-like sweetness. Hazy tan body with little head. You can taste the alcohol too and it is very sweet with almost no bitterness. Some spices in the aftertaste. Very low carbonation. Syrupy. Alcohol burns. Bottle. Entered from notes.