Mountain Sun Rouge de Bruges

Brewed by Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery
Style: Bière de Garde
Boulder, Colorado USA

Serve in Stem glass, Tulip

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(Draught) Pours a hazy amber body with a medium off-white head. Aroma of herbs, grass, and caramel. Flavor of herbs, yeast, biscuit, fruitiness, and caramel. Flavor of yeast, herbs, grain, anise, biscuit, and caramel.

Hazy reddish-brown. The aroma has some gluey/phenolic stuff, pear/cherry esters and light alcohol. Fizzyness cuts some of the sweetness, which is caramelly in nature. The brew is quite estery. Ok, but a bit strong on the alcohol taste to be really drinkable, and too fizzy to be a dessert beer.

Tap. Pours clear brown with a medium, frothy off-white head, medium-long retention with excellent lacing. Aroma is caramel and cookie malt, Belgian yeast, bread, and light brown sugar notes. Flavor is malt dominant, no hops, Belgian yeast character, and a dry finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.

On tap. Pours with a lightly hazed golden brown body with a small, off-white head. Aromas are bready, candi sugar, lightly peppery, licorice, mild funk. Flavors are bready, grainy, crackery, licorice/anise, fig, and a bit peppery. Dry with medium carbonation.

draft. medium hazed soft brown colored body with a fine-bubbled sand colored head. quiet but exceptionally nuanced nose of mildly toasted barley, dried leaves / husks, mild and soft fruity esters and a touch of brown sugar and fig. for 6% it’s surprisingly dry, combining the toastiness and light fruit esters with rigid malt and soft carbonation cleaning the palate at the end of each sip. dry, semi-thin finish matches the carbonation and acid perfectly. mildly astringent with fig / wood / earth / tobacco notes late. delicious, delicate, and surprisingly well-made. one of the better belgian/french/hybrid/whatever styles to come out of mountain sun.

Draft @ Mountain Sun boulder. Is dark red-brown with tight, stable head. Aroma is very, perhaps too, resinous with wet, dark woods. Smooth and easy palate. Nice woody character and solid malts but lacks sufficient complexity or Flemish character. It’s very resinous, dry, and astringent, even with some tobacco in the palate. Unfortunately those flavors remain two-dimensional, never quite reaching that next level that could make it wow. It would greatly benefit from an injection of Rodenbach yeast. But it’s smooth enough and it’s its own thing.

Tap at Vine Street - was not a huge fan of this one - yeast character was muted, aside from some bright estery notes on the tail end - flavor was mostly toasty grains, with a lot of huskiness throughout - fairly dry, which is good, with a light dusty yeast note, but the huskiness cuts through most of it - meh.

Tap @ Vine St. Clear brilliant copper with a big ol white head. Nice earthy toffee malt aroma with some nice fresh hops tone. Amazing flavor of cereal toffee, gentle fresh hop flavor and mild bitterness with some Belgo fruity sweetness. Intriguing and lovely to drink.

taster at Mountain Sun in Boulder on 10/2/11. red pour with a small white head. sweet nose with candi sugar and dark fruit. medium to light body with more sweet malts and fruit notes. well carbonated. sweet finish with light yeast and dark fruits.

Reddish brown with a lingering hdead. Aroma of yeast and bubble yum suckers. Sharp sugar cane flavor . Flavors of cotton candy and sugary suckers. Sweet without remorse.