Bruegel Amber Ale

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

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Orangish amber with a giant well carbonated head. Fruity aroma is followed by tastes of yeast and overripe fruit. A slight metallica taste detracted from the overall enjoyment. Overall, not too bad, but there are many better Begians out there.

Another stumpy unattractive little bottle. I’m glad I am given this to try in a glass, because I wouldn’t want to be seen drinking out of this bottle. It looks like a beer bottle for babies or something. Weird. Anyhow...very large think head tastes more like a mix between an amber ale and a Belgian white - but not as good as a white. It’s like it is striving to be as good as a white - but it doesn’t quite make it. Slight fruitiness.

Poured from a bottle into a tulip glass. Appearance is a translucent amber with a long lasting white head of foam. Aroma is malty and very footlike. Taste is malty. Solid beer.

11.2 fl oz bottle from a variety 6-pack obtained at Florian’s in Auburn. Smells like butterscotch and band-aids... uh-oh... Somewhat murky yellow-red body with almost no head to speak of. Un-pleasantly astringent... Tastes like bad citrus mixed with diacetyl, or like cat urine smells. I must have a bad bottle... too bad too, since it’s probably the only bottle I’ll ever have. The first Belgian I’ve ever had to pour out... :(

Amber colored beer with a medium bright white head. Not much carbonation for a Belgian. Strong caramel smell, almost like a Rolo with the chocolate sucked off. Goes down far too easy with the lack of carbonation. Flavor is very sweet with a huge caramel taste and some hop flavor and bitterness, but predominantly sweet.

Tasted in Toronto from LCBO. Rust, orange colour, large cumulous head - sustained well in the glass. Very light aroma / scent. Very difficult to tell - hmmm possibly some spice and malt. Little or no hop balance. Slight 'soapy' scent. Taste is very spicy and well hopped. Interesting I couldn't pick this up in the scent - slight bitter finish, clean.

Was careful to pour on this one. I know it’s am amber ale and all but the last one I had, Bornem, blew up on me. Pours amber maple colour with a mid sized head. Leaves along a roman trace of lacing. Nose is syrupy with some vineous nature to it. Taste again is syrupy, with some fruit and a very mellow, and pleasant hop charachter. Kind of chewy for an Amber Ale. Decent, though a slight offputting vinious taste does come and go. enjoyable though. You can feel the alchohol come back out.

Bottle. Pours a gold/amber with off-white foam. Smells sweet with hints of coriander and alcohol. Tastes lightly bitter, with alcohol and hints of bittering hops. The mouth feel is of very large bubbles.