Schlafly Grand Cru

Brewed by Saint Louis Brewery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Maplewood, Missouri USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Pours deep gold into a trappist glass. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spotted sheets. Melon and candi aromas. Medium to full bodied with sweet candi upfront turning dry and hot in the lasting hay finish.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a head of all foam finely sized white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a typically carbonated transparent orange colored body. The mild aroma was hoppy and caramel malt. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The nice flavor contained notes of vinous caramel and sharp hops. A decent one that I would consider drinking again.

Bottle - 750mL capped. Golden amber pour with a tall, fluffy white head. Spicy aroma with dried fruit, strong, dusty yeast and dried flowers. Taste is also strong spices, sweet malt, light fruit notes, dried flowers, soft hops and dusty yeast. Body is medium with a strong carbonation and a spritzy feel on the tongue. Ends with more spices, stronger hop presence, flowers, dried fruit, Belgian yeast, and sweet malt.

Bottle at Peter’s 2nd annual spring gathering. Pours a milky yellow with a medium sized white head. Orange peels, citrus, and musk on the nose. Crisp orange and fruit, musky throughout. More crisp light citrus on the finish. Very clean.

75 cl bottle, courtesy of Greg at Churchkey, shared with Markus and Enrico in Monghidoro, to facilitate research impossible. Cloudy yellow color, large white cocoa cola style head that settles quickly to leave solid lacing. Aroma of aprioct, grapefruit and bread. Very nice malt profile, slight edge of sourness. Medium body. Good character, but high carbonation interferes somewhat.

Bottle @ Copenhaniacs tasting, Pt.1. Pours hazy deep golden with a small white head and lacings. Nose is matured malts, yeast , caramel and some tart fruit in the nose as well. Flavor is dry, tart, dusty and fruity. Medium bodied. Dry

Bottle 750ml.
Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sweet acetic vinegar, light yeasty, fruity, spicy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to light moderate acidic with a average to long duration, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100314]

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Cloudy strawyellow - white head. Caramel, straw, light sourish notes, grainy, milkey, youghurt, apples, peppery, sharpness. Strange.