Struise Tsjeeses

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Abbey Tripel
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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33cl bottle from hopduvel @ghent, strong alcohol taste malty taste sweeter than the tsjeeses reserva. very good beer

330ml bottle

2010 vintage Pours dark orange with a small head. Malty, spicy and fruity aroma with notes of ripe fruits and hops. Taste is spicy with notes of malts, ripe fruits and hops. Finish is strongly malty and spicy. Quite well balanced and tasty tripel.

Taken from the bottle into a tasting glass at the 16th Essen Christmas Beer festival 2010. Honey brown in colour, they use Pilsner, light wheat and caramunich 120 malts according to the festival notes. The smell was of fruits, spices and malt. Not suprising when you realise they add orange peel and grapes in the mash along with mint leaves and cardamom. Unfiltered and unpasteurised the beer retains all those flavours mentioned above, add the three hop varieties from around Poperinge and you have one hell of a beer. The flavours somehow blend into a fantastic tasting beer, each sip being slightly different from the last one. It is more of a ’barleywine’ than a anything else, but whatever style you choose to put it in, it is a wonderful drink.

Creamy head medium carbonation deep amberpour aromas fruity spice yeasty alcohol dried fruit and dark the flavours earthy spice cinnamon five spice sweet yeast port a tawny taste dried fruit lemongrass plum woody note the finish good fruit mix dark dry spice herb sweet dry tasting ale very good on palate classy

33 cl bottle. 2010 vintage. BBE 08/2015.
Originally rated on 20100521. (7+4+7+4+15)
Pours clear copper color with a medium-sized off-white head. Aroma of spices, yeast, toffee and mild caramel notes, some sweet malts and ripe fruits. Flavor of sweet caramel malts, spices, cardamom, yeast, toffee, ripe fruit notes and some earth notes. Sweet malty palate with a spicy kick and sourish fruity finish.
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Cuvée C du 8ème mois de 2010. (La 11ème du genre) Parlons d’abord de genre, puisqu’il s’agit d’une bière de Noël. Avec ce type de bière, on peut en principe s’attendre à tout, puisque toutes les épices sont permises. Toutes les folies aussi d’ailleurs. Bon ici ce n’est pas trop "exotique", mais ce n’est pas non plus ce qu’ils ont fait de mieux ces Struise. Explications : les arômes laissent d’abord croire à un superbe brassin avec des nuances de prunes, de la cannelle, du nougat,du pain d’épices aussi. Mais la première bouche est dominée par une solide fumée de feu de bois, un peu de whisky d’Islay, accompagnés de fruits des bois, de myrtille et une pointe d’anis. Tout ceci est assez original. En seconde bouche, les arômes se fondent un peu, en restant sur des brindilles brûlées et des herbes de Provence. En 3ème bouche et en finale, le fumé ressort trop. Cette bière n’est malheureusement pas assez équilibrée, même si le genre permet des audaces.... Donc attention, comme toujours, aux bières de Noël, même si on invoque Tsjeeses de façon très humoristique !!! Ceci n’excuse pas tout... Pour amateurs d’Islay et autre Talisker de Skye... (vous avez dit "sky" ? Non, "Tsjeeses"....)

Fantastic Belgian christmas beer that made my day in Bruges. It does the name justice.

Pour deep, murky, nutty brown, with a large foamy white head. Aroma is quite spicy, with pepper?, dark fruits, cheese, leather, brown sugar. Plenty of "yeastyness". Also quite boozy, can definitely fell the heat. Taste is sweet, with a well balanced bitter and spicy finish. Medium body, with plenty of fizzy carbonation.

pours dark amber with slight off-white head. aroma of caramel, brown sugar, cloves, orange, and spices. taste has a resinous, grassy quality. plenty of hops bitterness, alcohol, spice and carbonation. the fizz really dances about the tongue. (for me its over carbonated) with a dry bitter/alcohol finish, but its interesting as always from struise. there are probably better examples, but its a classy beer all the same.

Enjoyed from bottle form with a friend who’se moving to Sweden in a week, enjoyed at his going away party. Appearance is an amber gold with a thin white head. Aroma of clove, belgian yeast, a bit of cheese, slight sweet, really complex and great. Taste really balanced for being uniquely complex. Pepper, spice, moderate carbonation and body, awesome stuff.

Ruby/amber colored pour. Small white to off-white head. Little bit of lacing. A slightly funky malty aroma with hints of oranges. Very nice, smooth, malty flavor with a hint of alcohol. A little bready-ness as well. Very smooth, with just a bit too much alcohol. Little less dry and it would be very well balanced. Good regardless.