Duysters Drossaard

Brewed by Brouwerij Huyghe
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Melle, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Nice dark amber clear with large rapidly dissipating light beige head. Inviting, fresh green fruity hops, honey, caramel malt, and a faint whiff of mould that grows in damp cardboard boxes. That was the good bit - the rest was rather off - maybe this bottle was gone. Palate is thin and flat like a stale English draft, brief cider sour start, then faint sweet, then bitter with some alcohol evident. The flavour reminds me of those eye clencging Venetian aromatic apperitifs made with cheap white wine and something bitter and orange from a tiny bottle. Flavour is overall way down compared to the very interesting aroma. Disappointingly bad after such a promising start. I’m interested enough though to try it again and see if it was just this bottle.

(33cl bottle best by May 2011 thanks to bu11zeye) clear amber, with a few translucent bubbles. Nose and taste of orange, alcohol, spicy Belgian yeast, a bit oxidized and also a little bit bitter.

Bottle @ home. Slightly hazy orange color, thick white head. Smell malts, yeast, slight sweetness, barnyard and something herbal or medicinal. Taste a bit dry, yeasty, malty and a little earth. Low to medium carbo and body.

33 cl bottle @ Gastropub Tuulensuu, BBE 05/2012
Sourish aroma has lots of elderflower and some other spices too. Dry flavour is rather spicy. A bit saison-like and bitter in a bad way. Drinkable but not very nice though.

Bottled@Tuulensuu, Tampere. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is herbs, elderflower and some barnyard as well. Flavour is toffee, herbs, elderflower, mild earthy and yeasty notes. once you pour the yeast in the spicyness gets stronger.

330ml bottle shared @ Gastropub Tuulensuu, Tampere

Pours orange with a medium foamy head. Aroma has notes of orange, fruits, yeast and spices. Taste is quite malty with notes of fruits and spices. Stingy finish. Quite unbalanced.

330 ml bottle. BBE 03/2012.
Pours a hazy copper colour with a small, foamy head. Aroma of sweet caramel malts, grassy hops and sweet fruits. Flavour of sweet, slightly sour, dried fruits, caramel malts, yeast, nuts, hops and some alcohol. Quite rough but also thin mouthfeel, high carbonation and a dry, malty, nutty finish. Saison-like Belgian Strong Ale. Decent.

Orange coloured, small head. Smell is alochol, spices, yeast and malts. Malty, light dry-earthy taste, with some fruity notes.

head: white, bubbly
colour: haz, gray/caramel
smell: yeast, barley, malts, honey/sugar, flour/dough
taste: irony/malty start, carbontaion stings, honey/sugared watter, sweetcorn, earthy end, dry palate

(33cl bottle, BB May 2011) Pours a lightly hazy golden body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of yeast, grass, and apple. Flavor of pineapple, yeast, and biscuit with a dry finish.

bottle, thanks to bu11zeye, orange colored pour with bubbly foam, aroma is bright sugary fruits, with flavors of sweet caramel and dates