Paulus Oud Bruin

Brewed by Bierbrouwerij Leroy
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Boezinge, Belgium

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle. Brown and red with a thin foam. Aromas are toffee with floral rose notes. Lemon with spritzy yeast and medicinal notes. Dusty with cherry drop sweets. Flavours are tart cherry drop sweets with woody notes. Dry on the finish with underlying sweet toffee. Decent.

Draft, Churchkey. Deep brown pour. Very sweet aroma that isn’t unpleasant, loads of brown sugar and toffee. This has a strong sugary hit, mostly syrupy and loaded with more brown sugar upon sipping. I didn’t pick up the sour much until I took a larger gulp, where some tart vinous grapey flavors peeked out. Way too sugary without much to balance itou t.

A dark brown ale with a very thin off white head. In mouth, nice vinous malt, dark grapes, molasses, aged and smooth. In mouth, a sweet unfermented maple extract, faint sourness, signs of oxidation. Blah! On tap at ChurchKey DC, Sept. 16 2010.

Pouring at Night of the Funk on the Friday night of Belgian Beer Fest in Boston. Pours a just hazed ruby brown with a thin beige head. Sweet malt, wood, and faint acid and some roast on the nose. Chocolate and chewy roast. Super sweet, soda flavors and some faint bitterness. Too sweet overall, chewy caramel with more sweetness on the finish. Has some potential, but no follow through. On the plus side we got to go LEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRROOOOOOOOOY PAAAAAAAAUUUUUUULLLUUUUUUUUUUS!!!

(bottle, 25cl) Almost cloudy, ruby brown colour with a medium-sized and slightly tanned foamy head. Slightly sugary sweet and very discreet sour aroma with slightly toasted malty notes, as well as a touch of leather and wet wood. Sweet and slightly sour flavour, medium to light bodied with a soft carbonation. Slightly toast-malty taste with a mildly sour-fruity and slightly fusty woody touch; sweet and shy sour-fruity finish with a mildly tart aftertaste. 02.XI.10

Pours reddish brown and has no head at all. Aroma is sour, little cola malty and a hint from a barn. Flavor is also sour and has some cola malt. Also rubber, earth and in the same way has some sweet red berries. Carbonation is low.

Bottle a dark brown colored with a tiny white head aroma sour spices yeast and hop taste sour spices water some fruits and hop

Pours a reddish brown clear ale, withe a fine laced lightbrown head. Some yeasty basement aromas. At first the typical sour taste, followed by sweetness and hints of oak. A dry, little sweet and mostly dusty aftertaste, hard to describe. Not a very good example of the style if you ask me.