Malheur Extra Brut

Brewed by Brouwerij Malheur (formerly De Landtsheer)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Buggenhout, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Clear golden colour, slight wisp of yeast, white head. Aroma of hops, malts, citrus, alcohol, apricot, honey and liquorice. Quite bitter flavour, sweet malts, hops and liquorice. Quite dry. Malty finish, light sweet, lingering bitter hops.
Good brew. Quite surprised about the liquorice in a blond beer.
(From 75cL bottle @ Great Belgian Beer Dinner 2013)

75cl bottle at ’The Great Belgian Beer Dinner’ 2013. Appearance: lightly clouded blonde beer, large stable white head. Nose: lots of hops, some citrus, some fruits even. Taste: very dry finish, thought rather fruity, in my opinion too dry though...

75 cl from the brewery Malheur. Aroma of malt and coriander. Strong but fine carbonation. Gold color with large white head. Taste spicy and soft bitter hops with alcoholisch finish.

75 cl bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma is fruity, phenolic and light wineous. Fruity, smooth and light phenolic. Bitter and light fruity. Caramelish and light phenolic. Solid carbonated. Smooth fruity finish.

Sample @ Brugge Bierfest ’13. Dorée-orangée, col blanc, qcq bulles style champagne. Arôme est très belge dans l’approche, houblonné, fleuri sur des effluves herbacées presque feuillus. Malt reste dans les normes pour ce type de bière, cad dans un bouquet belge. Palais garde ce profile levure typique de Malheur tirant dans le champenois, alcool prenant avec un fini sec herbacé des houblons. Le tout laisse une fine note d’amertume en bouche, suivi directement par la levure et un malt pâle-cara et belge type pour ce style. Comme souvent avec leurs bières l’effervescence n’est pas en reste et atténue un peu l’appréciation des houblons et ici renforce cet effet de dry-hopping. Pas mauvaise en soit, mais cette série à une habitude de présenter des bières haut de gamme à un prix qui ne vaut souvent pas ce que l’on retrouve en bouteille. Ici c’est un peu le cas.

75 cl. bottle sampled @ Brugs Bier Festival 2013. Pours hazy golden to tad orange with a white head (reasonable). Smell is a bit dull with some tuned fruits, touch overripe peaches, white bread dough, tad mouldy, zest & overripe fruits. Taste is tad bitter esters, BE hops bitter, overripe fruits, BE yeast, muddled & tad dull, overripe peach, zest, sweet spices, heavy dough, touch herbal. Carb. is a bit high. Quite a bit dull & tad muddled. I quite love their chocolate champagne beer but their others, this one is not very champagny…

In my view one of the best beers of Belgium. This beer is in balance from taste body and aftertaste. The hoptast is balanced and inline with the alcohol level. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone By Belleketels

750ml Bottle - Golden with a white head. Tea, lemon and spice in the aroma. Tangy, fruity and hoppy taste with lemon, tea and grapefruit detected. Enjoyable and easy to drink.

A clear golden colored beer, with a big white foamy head. The aroma of sweet malt, fruits like orange and citrus with hop.The taste of sweet fruit and malt, sparkling, dry bitter hop and a little burny. The aftertaste is sweet with some bitter and alcohol notes.

Huge, dense, yellowish-tinted head turning fluffy, yet impressively stable, over champenoise-pearling golden beer, clear-metallic. Rather malty nose, tad of citrus, waffle dough, grainspices. After a while, some meaty esters and cigarleaf aroma emerging. Bitter-roasted taste. Again a flavour as frum kümmel or other grainspice. Bit of ureum, cheesy, herbal - if all in very moderate amounts; Cigarleaf returns retronasal. Slightly burning MF, obviously spritzy, medium bodied. All in all, pretty complex. In this way, it’s more impressive than Champagne. For the rest, it resembles it indeed too much in neutrality and overcarbonation. In the line of similar hypebeers.