Bos Grand Cru

Formerly brewed at Bos Brewery and Bistro
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Pontiac, Michigan USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Couleur ambrée aux reflets orangés, mousse beige d’apparence crémeuse et persistante. arômes très floral, levurés aux indices de sucre candi rappelant les citrons confits, la pâte d’amandes et certaines confiseries. Toujours pleinement herbals en bouche, certaines épicées apparaissent graduellement. Les saveurs sont aussi très sucré, cassonade, sucre brun, candi et caramel en bonne quantité. Beaucoup d’alcool en rétro olfaction, venant sérieusement interférer avec les différents goûts. Corps d’épaisseur moyenne, faible carbonatation. Une multitude de composantes individuellement intéressantes ne s’accommodent pas très bien les unes les autres. Michigan brewer’s fest, Ypsilanti, Michigan, Juillet 2005.

UPDATED: DEC 26, 2007 Tap @ MBG, orange/amber with minimal white head. Aroma very sweet candy sugar with some fruit in the background, banana and peach. flavor is very cloying sweet like straight candy sugar with a warming alcohol presence. Tone it down it would score great, but as is I can’t drink more than a couple ounces. Rerate from the MBG ’06. Aroma has developed quite nice. Huge candi sugar sweetness with some floral notes. Still very hot but more rounded than last year. Bumped the score .6 altogether.

Draught sample at MBG 2006 Summer Festival. Reddish-amber with a faint haze. Aroma is quite boozy, with lots of caramel malt and some dark fruit and wood - I didn’t care for it right away, with it grew on me as I finished the sample. Flavour is quite sweet and hot, with some caramel and bourbon notes. Pretty well balanced for 14%, but still a bit too hot.

(2003 Vintage) Floral, honey and alcohol aromas meld well in the nose. Opaque tan body with low, cream coloured head that recedes to leave a thick ring around the sides of the glass. Floral, doughy honey flavour with a moderate bitterness that keeps it from becoming cloying. Mustiness lingers on the tongue. Alcohol is very apparent but not unpleasant. Very hot but it seems to work well. Medium-full body and creamy texture with low carbonation. Complex and interesting without being over the top. Sampled at the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival 2005.

On tap at MSBF: Lots of butterscotch and light peach in the aroma. Reddish-orange with no transparency and an off-white head. Candy sugar sweetness is a little too much. Light banana and moderate apple. Alcohol is noticeable in the finish in both flavor and warmth.

Beautiful shining burnt orange-amber body wears a nice lasting beige head. Extremely sweet nose of dried apricots, lemon juice, a large spice array (anise? coriander?). Extremely juicy nature thanks to a syrupy and almost flat palate. Worty palate follows a rather complex peachy, woody and floral nose. Burning aftertastes is a mere shadow of the fruit juice complexities. Overall candyish and sweet. So Strong..

MiBG Fest 2005:

Hazy amber hue with a creamy head and very good lace. The aroma has a big sweet nose of candi sugar, banana, watermelon, caramel, and noticeable alcoholic vapors. The taste is well, AWFUL! Taste like a cough drop followed by a cup of heavy sugar water. I get no hops and even the fruity character is slammed to the background. Any Belgian yeast nature is equally masked. Unlike the Imperial Stout, I detect the alcohol in this a lot more. The feel is sticky and lush, warming but on this day that isn’t needed. One of my two drain pours of the day. Just like the Vintage Ale, too much sweetness and too in-your-face