Leffe Brune

13 November 2005 on tap at Belgian Beer Café, Perth: Near black in appearance, although not opaque, creamy brown tinged head, very good rings of lacing. Quite a bitter taste with roasted type flavours of coffee, brown sugar, licorice and light spices. Also a touch of alcohol. Mouthfeel was a little powdery and even thin. Overall a decent beer, but not particularly a favourite of mine.

On tap. Brown colour with a medium mostly lasting light brown head. Flavour of malt and caramel. Sweet malty taste. Good body

75 cl bottle, ’bbe’ April 06. Brown with a chestnut hue, no turbidity, light sparkle, small but persistent beige head giving some lacing. Faint malty aroma with roasted malt and caramel; reminds of a coffee surrogate, too. Some heavy herbal smell is also present, like of partially dried flowers and leaves. Overwhelmingly sweet taste with caramelised malt and little complexity; rough, almost pungent hop bitterness lingering in the aftertaste. Not very convincing body, some carbonation, light etheric mouthfeel.

Very deep rich aromas. It seemed less gassy than the blonde and tasted rich although quite bitter with a pleasant aftertaste.

Very subdued aromas of molasses-berries-spice with a slight sweet note.

Fair and decent belgian abbey. As the description says, deep brown colour and sweet and fruity aroma. It’s got a nice malty touch.

On tap at BXL. Similar fresh malt aroma as the Blond. Roasted malt flavor is creamy and bitter at the same time. Finished well. An interesting beer and a good choice

Wonderful appearance, nice dark colored body and lightbrown head. Warm palate and flavor. One of my favorite styles of beer.