Brooklyn Flemish Gold

Formerly brewed at Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Saison
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in Tulip

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<i>Draught at Bishop’s Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm. </i> Cloudy golden, minimal head.Piney yeasty aroma. Sweetish and medium bodied with fairly clean mouthfeel. Some banana, honey and soap. Spicy and gingerish underneath the clean, slender rounded malt. Low bitterness.

Draught, Cock & Bull

Fairly dull light bronze colour. Appley, spicy aroma with light bubblegum and floral character. Sweet and fruity (pear, peach, light apple, cherry). Some minty notes. Sweetish finish. I can’t figure out what they’re getting at with this one.

UPDATED: DEC 22, 2009 (Draught) Pours a hazy pale yellow body with a tall off-white head. Aroma of citrus, pineapple, apple, clove, light barnyard, herb garden, and ginger. Flavor of candi sugar, Belgian yeast, hops (floral, light citrus), subtle nuttiness, grass, and clove with a dry finish.

Draft… Hazy, light golden ale with a mid-sized, creamy, white head. Very good retention. The nose is chock full of clove and smoke phenols… man, I hate clove. Light to medium-bodied and very fizzy. Crisp, fairly nondescript flavor… lightly spicy and light fruity. Bone-dry finish. These phenolic Belgian brews are <u>so</u> not my thing.

Port 82!!! On tap at Capone’s. Poured a medium and hazy yellow color with a larger sized, frothy (looked like a head of a Latte) white head. Aromas of fruitiness, some citrus rinds, and lighter spices. Tastes of the same fruitiness, light spices (peppers and others), and lemons. Lacing left on the glass.

Growler from Bierkraft. Very, very pale golden beer with a nice thick rocky head. Aroma is lightly citric and spicy with a soft flinty minerally character. Soft spiciness and the beginning of a light zesty bony (is that a flavour?) dryness. It comes across like a beer with the beginning of brett character going on in it. Lemony citrusy flavour with a nice herbal hop flavour on the back. Man, this is another really nice seasonal form these guys. The malts are distinct, but so dry that they are hard to describe. Fresh pilsner malt flavour with just a mix of wheaty tartness, herbal hoppiness and a spicy/citrusy dry yeastiness. This might be the first beer in awhile where I’ll go back to get another growler.

Draft at hop devil. The bartender handed me a small glass, skimp pour. Light golden body, i missing the flemish part of this ale. Lost of belgian spices wheat, spices, and bready malts. Eh not for me.

Served on draft at Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours a slightly hazy lemon yellow color with a medium frothy head, good head retention and excellent lacing. Hoppy citrus aroma with some caramel notes. Taste is citrus hops, caramel and peppery spice. Very smooth with very soft carbonation. Medium bodied.

sample bbf 08. Pours a nice light mostly clear golden with a massive fluffy white head and some nice lace. Aroam is fruity, ligthly spiced, mostly american citrus hops with some crisp piney cooling notes. Good doughy and cracker malts, some breadiness, great hop spiciness, floral and good citrus and pine. Nice bone dry finish and clean refreshing bitterness from what I think was Glacier Hops on the description at the fest.

On tap at the OTH (Oldsmar Tap House). Poured up in a deep tulip glass gold with a slight haze and blooming tall white head of foam. The aroma has notes of tartness, an earthiness that isn’t too earthy (??) followed by fruitiness, mild Belgian candi sugar and banana. The first impression of the taste is how really refreshing this brew is. It has a nice crisp tart mildly Bretty moving to modestly bitter with hops. It then picks up smooth understated earthiness and assorted fruits like banana, raisin, apricot and then some Belgian candi sugar. Nice stuff.