Belzebuth

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle, thanks to screwball. Somewhat hazy orange/amber color, offwhite head. Sweet marcipan aroma, alcohol and some nuts. Strong alcohol flavor, nothing else in there. Way too strong to be drinkable.

Hazy golden body. A white bubbly head. Aroma is ok. It has fruits, grass and marzipan. The flavor is disgusting! It´s way to strong!! Only flavor from alcohol and sugar.

Bottle, shared with blankboy, harry, and gregclow, courtesy of blankboy on the occasion of rating 666! Dark yellow, small white head. Some alcohol in surprisingly mild aroma. Harsh sweet taste, lots of unbalanced alcohol as well, but it is the sweetness that is harsh, not necessarily the alcohol. Almost a whiskey/bourbon finish. Yeck, not good. Obviously evil.

Old English crossed with a sweet Belgian tripel was what crossed my mind after i first tried this beer. Potent, offensive, and never going to be sampled again by me.

Red/orange. Extremely sweet, which hides the enormous alcohol content well, but also makes it taste awful. Way, way too sweet.

Can version (11.8%). Sweet orange, apricot, malt and alcohol aroma. Cloudy golden yellow color with minimal head. Sweet peach/orange malt flavor with harsh alcohol/fusel finish. Belgian malt liquor.

There is a beer for everyone. This, I am pretty sure of. This particular beer, is just not for me. What an absolutely horrible waste of a bottle, let alone the ingredient it took to make this "beer". This was nothing more that rubbing alcohol flavored with malt. I’m sure this beer would do great in removing spray paint from walls, removing the bumper stickers saying W 04 off of conservatives cars, and cleaning a wound after falling off a cliff from 40 feet. But to drink this and say it’s enjoyable is just too hard to comprehend.

The beer pours out medium amber color, slightly opaque with a scant off-white scummy head. Aroma is rubbing alcohol and raisins, a bit of yeast and just a whiff of something that resembled apple pie spices. That’s where anything worthwhile ends. The flavor is full of alcohol spikes, reminding me of drinking rubbing alcohol or some kind of mouthwash used in the Middle Ages. Mouthfeel was hot and burning, like taking a shot of cheap whiskey. The alcohol just kills any sort of flavor of the beer, and leaves your mouth gasping for air.

I have a pretty open mind about beers. This is just not for me. It’s not a quencher, it’s not a sipper. It’s a crapper. Ugh.

Bottle at home. A truly awful experience. First off, it smells like solid alcohol. Then the tast is really not much diverse. Potent 13% with hints of sugar and caramel. I threw it out after two tastes. Another French travesty. I am totally confused why as to the ratings are so high. Only one other rater agrees the tast is just plain awful.

Pours kind of brown with massive carbonation. Head swirls around the glass like you’re getting sucked into a black hole. Nose is combination of buttered toast and Wild Turkey. Taste is a combination of breads, malt, grain alcohol and hydrochloric acid. Rated 7/17/2000

Reminded me of urbock at first, but after a few sips the sweetness is cloying and the flavor unpleasant because it seems to be simple fermented sugar, like a cheap malt liquor. I could only drink a few sips. Dark brown with no head. No hop presence in this beer.