2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled Brugs de’ Beertje 04-11-05. A warm golden colour beer, with medium white head, nutty yeasty aroma and present in the flavour. Fine but no great shaker.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours orange\golden with a one and a half finger thick white head. Aroma of sweet malts, yeast, and some slight spices. Flavor is smooth, sweet, yeasty, dry, slight hops are present. This beer is easily forgetable, yet drinkable.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 6/20
Bottle, with cheesy green label, not that better lookin thing in the picture. Translucent light amber with foamy off white head. Big sticky lacing. Nutty, bready aroma. Acidic lowenbrau can taste, more alike to lager than ale. Stale, corny, boxy flavor. Nothing much positive in the flavor besides a slight acidic tartness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Rusty brown pour wuth a bubbly head. Alcoholy watery taste, with not much there. Some hops in both the scent and taste but not much else. There is something odd in the taste that eventuallt came out but I can’t place it. Not as good as expected.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
UPDATED: FEB 20, 2006 Pours golden amber colour. Small creamy head. Aroma of fruits, not unlike a lambic.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Goldish orange, foamy, frothy head. Lemony, oaky aroma, with a hint of white wine. Tart and woodsy flavor, with a citric, sour finish. Comes across a little earthy in the finish. Bottle, Union Jack’s, Knoxville.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours clear gold with huge white head. The aroma is quite a bit maltier than I had expected, with some faint grassy notes and noble yeast. The flavor is kind of dry, with lots of low-alpha hops, fortified by some malt, toast, and a bold yeast character. The flavor is quite good, but the mouthfeel is soapy.
4.8 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Petrus Speciale pours to a golden amber color with a tight white head and a moderate amount of carbonation. The nose on this beer is very inviting. Sweet malt aromas marry with strong aromas of pepper, and earthy yeastiness. Petrus Speciale is spiced with coriander, and it is quite evident in this beer. The palate is firm with more good malt flavors on the palate, with a nice back drop of bready/yeasty flavor, and subtle hints of pepper. This beer finishes with more good malt up front, then is balanced with some nice hop bitterness, and a slightly sour/vinous note.
This is a fantastic beer to have with a meal, and would work well with many gourmet dishes. I matched one with a meal of Blanquette de Veau, which is veal tips slowly braised in white wine, mushrooms, and cream. The combinations of flavors in the dish, and the malty/yeasty/peppery flavors of the Petrus worked extremely well. Seek this beer out if you can find it. It can be a bit hard to find in some markets, but well worth looking for.
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