Belzebuth

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

Pours with a great, deep red color. Very little head. Peach, grape wine and vanilla in the aroma. The alcohol is well masked. The flavor has slight alcohol and caramel. The malt really comes through. Nice full body. I wouldn't want to drink a lot, though. Flavors were mostly subtle.

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.

Bottle from 2004, 13% ABV and served in a tulip: Pours a some what hazed golden hue with a small frothy ring and some lace. The aroma has notes of candi sugar, husky grains, aromatic and grassy hops, lemongrass, star fruit, apricot, yeast esters, notes of DMS and noticeable alcoholic and phenolic vapours The taste is rather straight forward malt and sugar sweetness with a lot of ripened fruit in the background. I got a hit of grassy and noble hops before they were vanished by the boozy nature of this Strong Ale. This brew even after time in the cellar in completely unbalanced and far too aggressive. Not much else to say but what a disappointment this was, I thought I was smart by aging it but alas it would not take to the graces of time. A waste of a spot in my cellar!

amber coloured with hoppy nose, the alchohol strength is clawing and fair kicks

May, 2008 Nice colour. Smells and tastes like a strong lager. Carlsberg Special Brew with a fancy name. Well, a bit nicer perhaps, but still fairly one dimensional. [1.8]
July 2009 250ml bottle, brought back from the Pyrenees by Bridget. Tastes like a fiery and crude Strong Lager. Some perfume in the malt. Bock, malt liquor, strong lager or strong blonde ale - the end result is a strong pale beer with too much alcohol for my taste, but lovers of strong beers will give it higher marks. Really crude stuff - the Carlsberg Special Brew is tastier. [1.4]

Bottle. High fluffy and long lasting white head leaving nice long lacings. Slightly hazy amber body. Alcohol dominated aroma with barley malt and caramel. The rice added sweetens the flavor and makes is less alcohol tasting. Unfortunately it also makes the beer a good deal more boring and only tasting of mild barley malt and caramel as the hops contents appear to be low. Low carbonation, short aftertaste.

Sampled at Cellars Wine & Spirits in St Paul, Minnesota. Pours a semi-hazy orange amber brew (with particles) with an average sized off-white head that has some nice retention and some good lacing. Aroma of a heavy chardonnay white wine, some caramel malt, flowery hops and light pear fruit. Taste is full bodied, thick, fruity with flavors of sweet caramel, pears and a whopping alcohol burn. Finish is metallic from the high alcohol presence that over-powers some of the fruity and Belgian yeast flavors.

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.