Malheur Bière Brut (Reserve)

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

Hazy orange pour with a fluffy white head and thick drippy lace. Fruity metallic aroma. Grassy hops, tropical fruit, melon and spice.

Big coarse white head doesn’t last. Hazy yellow body with floaties. Fruity mango and Belgian yeast aroma with metallic grassy peppery notes. Intense tropical fruity (mango, banana and honey melon) taste with peppery grassy alcohol notes. Light, delicate palate. Mild mouthfeel with alcohol heat. Dryish herbal grassy aftertaste with metallic hoppy notes. Excellent! Light, drinkable, not too sweet. (0.75l bottle, wine monopoly.)

750 ml corked bottle. Everlasting thin white cream head. Lightly hazed deep yellow-golden colored, lively carbonated body. Predominant aroma of fruity Belgo-yeast with mould and cellar notes, a faint spiciness and a distant whiff of sweetish pale malts. Taste is wheatish, spiced and yeasty. Some fruitiness, sour-acidic and dry. Inviting mouthfeel, with a champagne-like carbonation. Strong body. Nice hoppy finish. Not top end, but definitivly a very enjoyable Belgian.

Bottle at Belgian Beer fest 2009. Listed as Michael Jackson commemorative Brut 11%. Huge head. Sweet, but high carbonation gives the illusion of dryness. Yellow amber color. decent.

15/03 A 0.75 l bottle from beershop.hr, shared with Doggythedog. As we’ve expected, the cork flew off violently. It poured murky yellow body with some yeast particles floating inside. Big head for sure, but, similar to a champagne, it didn’t live too long. Pretty strange aroma, a bit vinous and slightly malty, with yeast completely missing. Flavor is fuller, pleasantly sweet fruity with hops adding just an impulse of bitterness to fill it up. Longer, tingling sweetish finish. Nothing so special as it may sound and can’t compete to Dark Brut, but it’s a good beer.

bottle @Zythos, yellow-gold, small head, grainy, fruity, alcohol, yeast. A good beer but I expected more from this ’champagne’-beer.

750 ml "champagne" bottle, from Vinmonopolet (bestillingsutvalget). ABV is 11%. Pale yellow colour, slightly hazy, big white head. The aroma is yeasty and spicy, hints of fermenting fruits and horse blanket - good, but not as great as I expected. The flavour is moderately sweet, certainly not "brut", notes of white candi sugar and spices, with noticeable alcohol. Moderate hops. Again: good, but I hoped for more complexity. Probably worth the price in Belgium, but not in Norway (NOK 219).

0.75l bottle from the Croatian Beershop, shared with heavy. A gusher of course, the cork almost blew a hole in the ceiling (the Floreffe Tripel we’ve had before almost matched it in strength). Poured a murky yellow-gold body filled with tons of particles. Orangey hopiness, some maltiness. Sweet fruity (orangey) taste, some hop bitterness, slightly soapy, the maltiness is light, candyish but quite tasty, some yeastiness, and my notes say "fruity" again then, very well balanced, quite complex, and I like it.