Brøckhouse Esrum Kloster

Formerly brewed at Brøckhouse
Style: Traditional Ale
Hillerød, Denmark

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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spicy cinnamon and nutmeg notes. similar to Draupnir but with a nice backbone of malts to accentuate the pie spice notes. nice amber color. surprised how much I liked this beer.

Brown color with an fine off-white head. Aroma is spicy with licorice. Taste is again very licorice-like.

Bottle (rated sometime in 2008). Head is initially small, frothy, off-white, mostly diminishing. Body is light brown. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (toasted grain, caramel), with notes of plum and juniper. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation, lightly to moderately alcoholic.

Opaque, dark cola color with 1" head, medium lacing. Aroma and taste is of caramel malt with an overtone of spearmint. Full taste and mouthfeel through a mildly bitter finish. Good although a "one-note" quaff.

In appearance it almost looks like a doppelbock while the aroma is heavy on the mint. The taste is mint up front while there’s a maltiness similar to a barley-wine as well. Not bad really but considering I’m not a barley-wine fan, this doesn’t get as high of rating as someone who is a fan of barley-wines would rate it as.

Bottle from Star Grocery. Pours copper with a greenish tinge and a thin beige head. There is a medicinal toffee aroma and a nutty caramel malt flavor that is a bit thin with an herbal hint.

Clear dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, heavy malty, caramel, yeasty and very spicy. Flavor is rather sweet and fairly bitter. Finish is spicy. Smooth and medium to full body. Very nice. 231107

(bottle) A bubbling chestnut brown body with a thin beige head. A sweet aroma with notes of ginger and lemon; musty. The flavor has some sweetness up front but quickly dries out, leaving a mildly bitter, very dry aftertaste. Notes of anise and ginger in the flavor. There is also the spiciness (nutmeg, allspice), but not too much else. As I said before, the finish is dry but also thin, almost watery (as if the flavor disappears), though the mouthfeel is carbonated. Not so bad in the universe of beers, but should be more for the style.

31-Jan-10 (500-ml bottle: Purchased 22-Dec-09 for $10.99 at www.wineandcheeseplace.com) Compared side-by-side with their Draupnir, this beer is noticeably darker and sweeter with less emphasis on the sprucy pine. The nose is sweet and sugary, piney, sprucy, with flowers, mint and other sweet herbs, brown sugar, wheat bread, cereal, mince meat cookies, fruitcake, and a hint of citrus. The first few sips are very tasty and enjoyable, but after a few more sips, the sugary sweetness really builds on the palate and the enjoyment factor decreases significantly. Very spicy and herbal with some toasty and bready malts residing in the background, peaking out mostly in the brown sugar finish. A flurry of lightly bitter pine emerges occasionally to partially balance out the sweetness, but in general, this beer remains very sugary sweet and tough to drink in quantity. The body is medium with a fair amount of residual sugar adding additional weight. Carbonation is medium. Very hazy, medium brown in color with a fizzy, off-white head that recedes from half an inch to a thin ring fairly quickly. A very interesting beer overall, as are most beers inspired by traditional recipes, but the finished product here is a bit too sweet, and a few ounces more than suffices.

500 mL bottle from Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a dark copper color, clear but with floating particles. Medium creamy tan head with good head retention and lacing. Aroma of big spicy notes, caramel, toffee, spruce and nutmeg. The taste is toffee, berries, spruce, spices, caramel, nuts. Medium-full bodied. Smooth, with a faint bit of alcohol. Nice beer.

Bottle. Clear dark brown colour with large creamy off-white mostly lasting head. Malty aroma with notes of caramel and licorice. Sweet spicy flavor.