Petrus Winterbier

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Belgian Ale
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

spicy, alcoholy, it looks beautiful, doesn’t really smell like anything. banana? clove?

750 ml bottle a dark amber colored beer with a white head aroma malts yeast sweet and spices taste sweet spices and dry fruit

Bottle. Once poured this beer is almost too beautiful to drink; a thick foaming head atop a deep amber body. Redolent of berries, perhaps strawberries and raspberries only slightly though, and oak, dry and vinous in character, slight sour undertones, with a caramel and melonish sweetness and some yeast phenolics. I was surprised by the low content though. Pleasant but rather more of a wine drinker’s beer.

Hmm, pretty nice. Poured with a nice foamy, frothy off white head with lots of lace. Color is dirty copperish amber. Aroma is funky nice with some malt, sour, skanky belly button, old cheese, and something else I can’t stick my nose in. Flavor’s all a that and more. This one is slightly more sour than sweet which makes it so drinkable. Some caramel. Body is good although carbonation seems a tad strong. Good beer!

On tap, De beurs, Meppel. Dark amber, sweet in the nose. Not that much taste I expected. Short finish, a bit sweet.

750ml bottle. Pours copper in color with full foamy tan head. Aroma sweet malt, yeasty, bread and spicy. Taste malty, yeasty, spicy and caramel with dry finish.

Poured hazy dark amber, CO2, candied sugars, little bready, little apricot, little yeasty, slight spice.

amber, smooth thick offwhite head. dusty yeasty aroma, sweet malty and some flowers. bread. nice and mild. flavor is bitter hops, bitter flowery notes, spices, malts. bitter caramel. a spicy and bitter caramel bitter experience with some bitter hops thrown in. faint dark fruits. had there been a little more dark fruits it would rate higher.