Haacht Speciale 1900

Brewed by Haacht
Style: Belgian Ale
Boortmeerbeek, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Clear amber colour, dissipating white head. Aroma of malts and caramel. Quite sweet flavour, malts, some metal touch. Sweet finish, caramel.
Meh
(From 33cL bottle @ local bar, Poperinge)

Half pint on tap. Clear copper with medium white head, good lacing. Sweet floral hops aroma. sweet malty taste, milky final. Metallic nose. Quite smooth, with thin carbonation texture.

Draught: Medium vast creamy head on top of a clear amber colored beer. Smell malts, lemon, barley malts, grains, dishwater. Taste malts, herbs, bitter, nuts, some fruits but mostly malts. Soft and gentle mixed but not strong tasting. Aftertate of bitter malts, barley malts and light grass/hay. Medium carbo, blown creamy airy mouthfeel, medium body and a texture between watery and creamy. Ok beer.

From back log

Head: white
Colour: yellowy amber
Smell: malts, hops, bit irony, fruity, banana
Taste: strat is malts, bit irony , hopy bitter altough no clear hopflavour, end is dry and bitter

33 cl bottle. Dark amber color with creamy head. aroma is swet and malty. Taste is soft, malty, bit bitter like orange peels.

330ml bottle, Chagal, Brugge, 13/02/12. Clear brassy amber with a slim tight foam. Red boiled sweet, juicy strawberry confectionery aroma; soft and pleasant with a peardrop, wheat, and Spangles taste. Sweet, innocent and refreshing.

Bottle. Amber coloured beer with a slightly off white head. Aroma of orange and hops. Quite faint taste, slight bitterness. Nothing too special.

Light amber, dark orange, little hazy color. Little soapy, wort and grain in the smell. Taste is ok, light bitter aftertaste, slight hint of sour. Medium but ’sharp’ carbo.

An amber ale with a fruity scent and a spicy orange somewhere in its flavour. Gets boring quickly, though.

Bottled. Goldeny orange colour with a mediumsized slightly off-white head that leaves some sslight lace. Aroma is sweet malts, some mild fruity notes, mild herbss as well as some mild wooden notes. Flavour is being rather similar. A bit thin in the palate.