Malheur Bière Brut (Reserve)

Brewed by De Landtsheer
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Buggenhout, Belgium

Bottle sampled with stegosaurus. Pours golden yellow with a two finger white head. Aroma of yeast, sweet malts and light fruit. Taste is sweet and fruity with light citrus, malts, and a hint of some spicy yeast with a dry and bitter finish.

cloudy gold with a huge creamy white head. spicy, yeast, sugar, pale grain, citrus aroma. flavor is yeast, citrus, pepper. i little bit hot with alcohol. definitely good, but definitely overpriced. a nice peachy sweetness emerges as it warms.

Bottle from Secret Santa. Pours turbid canary with huge, fluffy 3-finger white pillowy head that reforms with every repour, growing into odd and marvelous shapes, similar to La Chouffe Doublelon. Smells funky yeasty, with sour mashy malt notes, apricot, chardonnay, and champagney white grape notes. Tastes funky yeasty and hopcitric, with apricot, peach, and mid-palate dry floral notes, and more late yeast. This one was exceptional, and evolved throughout.

Another worldclass beer. Extremely complex and full of malt character and wonderful floral hop aromas. Another beer to enjoy with special people and special occasions.

Bottle at Hopleaf, BB 6/30/08. Poured a clear paler golden with a medium cap of creamy white head and sticky lacing. This had a strong, peppery, tripel-like nose to it with sweet pils malt and grains backing it up.. dried floral hoppage accents it well.. very faint darker fruits emerge as this approaches room temperature. Flavor had a creamy pale and pils malt base with lighter fruits and lots of peppery spicage.. some cloves in there too.. rich and very tasty! Creamy on the palate with.. well.. champagne-like carbonation to it.. long spicy finish gave a great final impression.

Dark straw with abundant white head. Clove, fresh cut grass, a nice tart yeast aroma, all wrapped up in a creamy whole. Bright warming clove flavor. Lots of bubbles and fairly forward alcohol presense. A really nice beer, though just a touch aggressive. Imbibed in the excellent company of Fin, Loz and Traci.

Bottle in the company of Doppelganger, Tracey and Loz. Poured with the most lively white amazingly frothy head that gently subsided to reveal a soft hazy, lemon coloured beer waiting below. The aroma was instantly spicy and with a dash of yeast and sweetness was very alluring. The taste rather took me by surprise as it was a fierce explosion of complex, bittersweet flavours led by the spices, yeast, and sweet malts. Whilst the flavour lingered for some time the intensity soon waned, and whilst this is indeed a very good beer I felt the expectation was never quite lived up to.

Clear yellow/gold. 1cm of dense, white foam. Nose is spicy, skunky, crisp, grainy, lightly musty, lightly floral. Similar flavor. Medium/full body, well carbonated, dry finish. Pretty good.