Bière du Corsaire

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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330ml bottle from Beers Of Europe. A hazy orange beer with a lot of yeast sediment. Hmm - quite thin and dry for a 9% beer - certainly fully attenuated. Not exactly tart, but leaning in that direction. Mousy, soft carbonation. Muddy flavours - messed up yeast with some slight orange zest. Not sure what to make of this - it’s certainly drinkable, but there’s not a lot of interest or character and certainly few pleasure points. But it’s not bad, it does work in its own way, and there is some interest. It’s like a saison heading toward a lambic, but not getting there. The 9% alcohol is totally wasted - the same sort of texture and flavour could be created under 5% - even under 4%. Difficult to give this any sort of decent score - but it doesn’t deserve a really low score either.

Bottle. Pours a orange colour with a white head on top. Little floaties in the glass. Yeasty, belgianny aroma... as well as the flavour. Nothing special going on here..

Bottle from Venerables. Hazy dark orange colour, off-white head, with some sediment. Nose is slightly alcoholic, yeasty, bit fruity, brown sugar, a bot floral. Flavour is malty, caramel ,brown sugar, yeast, slightly alcoholic. Medium bodied.

Tastes like youre drinking rich melted butter, im glad its a small cheap bottle as i wouldnt really want much more.

33cl bottle. Pours a yellow liquid with bits in it. Big white head. Nose : lots of citrus notes with some other fruit aromas like for example lychee’s. Has this aroma of yeast like white beer. Soap. Sip : Well carbonated and fluffy. Sweet with little sourness. the end develops a little bitterness.

Aroma a cítricos, cebada y akcohol. Apariencia dorada con espuma que perdura hasta el final, En boca se siente cremosa y un poco picante. Retrogusto amargi con ligero sabor a naranja, aun que a mi gusto un poco carente de cuerpo para ser una cerveza con 9.4 de alcohol. En general una buena cerveza, que sin duda podría aún mejorar, entendiendo que es elaborada en Bélgica por la misma cervecería que elabora la famosa cerveza del elefante rosado.

Not particularly memorable as far as Belgian strong ales go, but decent. Dark amber, thick head. A bit of spice and citrus, but mostly characterized by its malty body.

Bottled. A golden yellow beer with an airy white head. aroma is malty, fruity and alcohol. Taste is fruity and spice, orange notes. warming alcohol in the end. A little unbalanced for me

From backlog

Head: white, tall , creamy
Colour: dark amber
Smell: malts, boozey, candy sirup, bit sweet bitter.
Taste: strong herby flavour, sweet malts, bit of burnt sugar/caramel, hops,dry end , boozey after , not bad !

Yellowish-golden, opalescent, a bit fizzy body with medium white head. A bit hazy and cloudy. Aroma resembles to cookies, vanilla and some milky softness. Despite of the high alcohol content, it’s easily drinkable, sweet but harmonic taste. Excellent brew!

Pours hazy orange with huge floaties and a thick foamy white head. Aroma is ripe fruits, alcochol, spices, coriander. Flavor is sweet fruity up front and more spicy sharp bitter and alcoholic in the finish. Quite strong and intense brew, a bit off-balance though. Still not bad.