Brugse Zot

Brewed by Huisbrouwerij De Halve Maan
Style: Belgian Ale
Brugge, Belgium

A nice dark golden beer with a bitter, citrus taste an d carbonation on the Tongue, pretty nice

Never knew this existed until found one at my company party. Boy was I surprized. Looks like any other pale yellow american beer. Aroma of yeast and when you taste it, it’s a bit bitter initially but not terribly. Regular beer flavor, nothing really different that I could pick out. Could be a bit less offensive on the taste buds. Nice tingly carbonation that picks at the back of your tongue. Finish is not real offensive but does linger for a while.

Bottle. Hazy golden colour with a huge white head. Fresh citrus, orange peel and yeast aroma. Taste is sweet, spicey and fruity with lemon, fresh yeast and a light bitter and dry finish. Nice.

Drank on tap at Kafe Belgie, Utrecht. Blond Belgian Ale with a nice colour and average size of head. It tasted a bit like a Belgian white instead of an Ale, due because of the citrus aroma and fresh taste. Will drink this again.

Bottle tasted 12/3/06

Pours golden with a robust head and lots of floating gelatinous matter. The aroma is crisp, laced with citrus but dominated by grassy belgian yeast tones. The flavor is excellent, ever-so-slightly sweet on the front of the sip, gently rustic, accented with citrus, beautifully dry on the finish. The big drawback is that it is really rather simple and light on the front side of each sip. 7/3/8/4/14=3.6

Still, I’m a bit surprised by the low ratings that this one has received. For me, it encompasses much of the appeal of a good tripel in a much more quaffable 6% brew. I’ll be buying this one again.

Addendum Upon a second tasting just two weeks later, I now undeerstand the lower ratings that this one has been drawing. It’s a bit sweet on the front, a bit too heavy on the wit-like fruity esters. I’d have given this one maybe a 3.2 or 3.3 if I’d rated from scratch, though I’ll only bump the original 3.6 down by 1 point.

Bottle from Greens in Atlanta. Nice store by the way. Massive explosion and left a large part of this on the counter. But what was left had a rather pleasant nose of spices and some exotic fruit.A bit too carbonated for my tongue but that dodn’t take away from the taste as there wasn’t much anyway.

Bottle. Golden with off white head. Yeast, sweetness, banana, fruit(salat), apple in aroma. Flavour of yeast, apple, sweetness, banana, toffee and nice bitter finish with a touch of malt.

Light orange hazy glow with a smallish white head. Faint orange peel nose with a slight hint of lemon. Fizzy mouthfeel. Yeast, orange, lemon zest, slight bitter, floral flavors. Refreshing, light, and clean drinking.