Bruegel Amber Ale

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Ale
Ertvelde, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Pours copper with white head and lots of carbonation. Aroma is almost non-existent but there are portions of yeast and hops. Taste is very carbonated, yeast and very mild hop bitterness. Overall not an impressive beer.

Dark amber color with a medium size off white head. Yeasty aroma. Flavor of malt at first, then gives way to a spicy, yeasty, somewhat tart finish. Metallic aftertaste. Not sure if this was a bad bottle or not, I hope so.

Bottled. Beer is hazy, medium oxidized caramel brown with a large, off-white, frothy, mostly and rapidly diminishing head. Chunky lacing.<P>Smells horribly flawed. Malty with a light note of caramel; Hoppy with a trace of lemon zest; Otherwise it’s a pure diacetyl bomb. I can smell it from the table before I even touch the glass it’s so bad.<P>Moderately sweet, lightly acidic/juicy sour with a short, trace acidic and sweet very dirty finish.<P>The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.

Bottle: Ni fu ni fa. Neither nor. Wischi waschi. Food Pairing: A decent craft beer and food.

11.2oz bottle in a Trappist glass. Pours amber with a lacy, off-white head. Aroma of Belgian spicy yeast, candy sugar, floral hops, and hints of caramel and light fruit. Flavor pretty good, but could have more. Average texture. A pretty good beer.

Lots of toffee and some buttery popcorn in the aroma. Dark copper body with a light to medium palate. Light toffee flavors, watery, with some burnt popcorn in the aftertaste. Not good.

Light amber with a medium creamy head. Weak aroma, but some sweet maltyness is detectable. The taste lasts half a second, it is not a bad taste, just way too short.

light brown appearance that is very thin looking with a slight head. the flavor is lacking with a bitter slightly malty flavor. no flavor takes the forefront and it is not a good beer at all