Sterkens Poorter

Brouwerij Sterkens
Brewed at Scheldebrouwerij
Style: Belgian Ale
Meer, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

Bottle. Thanks to "Secret Santa" for this beer. Dark brown with red tints and a beige bubbly head. Aromas are sugar, molasses, berries, sour pear drops and caramel and chocolate malts. Quite herbal and floral. Flavours are molasses, brown sugar, chocolate, and fruit. Also, lots of medicinal herbal notes. Quite smooth on the palate. Pretty good.

Ceramic swing top bottle poured a clear amber with a small off white head. Aromas of brown sugar, fruity, and light spice. Palate was light and dry. Flavors of straw, honey and spice with a dry finish. Sure does’nt seem like a porter to me.

Ceramic bottle capped with a swingtop - Pours very dark brown with absolutely no head at all. Aroma is nutty, caramel, and a bit of candy sugar. Flavor is very similar also a dusty barnyard type of background to this one. Some yeast also. Palate is way too thin and watery. Just not enough body for me. I was definitely more impressed with the bottle than with the beer inside.

UPDATED: MAY 31, 2007 No#50. This was coming towards the end of the trip and was had with diner on the plast nite in pelgrom. The aroma is a seriously malty beast. Taste has to warm a litle before can be fully appreciated. Malty, nutty, dark fruits start to come out with soem chocolate towards the end. Seems to be missing something, maybe a little more body is needed, excellent beer with diner all the same, and great bottle it comes in too. RERATE: Back at Pelgrom, Pelgromstraat, Antwerp. Just and alround excellent beer, but perhaps the setting helps a bit.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2007 Pours a dark murky brown ruby colour..Has a big time musky wine smell, broken down smells of berry; slight chocolate aroma...the extra O stands for Outrageous..nice stuff, has berries, licorice, sweet leather,choc, grape tastes ...subtle brew yet very friendly! does make me shiver though...in its crappy-ness

bottle. reddish-copper body with a medium white head that slowly dissipates to a small ring. aroma is brown sugar and heavy yeast, also some light chocolate and raisin. body is rich malt and lots of yeast. soft carbonation. bitter chocolate finish. pretty tasty.

A hazy pale nut brown beer with a nice brown head. The aroma is sweet yeasty and malty, with very slight hints of roasted malt, much less than expected from a beer called a Porter. The flavor is sweet and seems stronger than the 6.5% ABV, and is very malty as well as slightly roasted. The end is dry.

Thick creamy light brown head, hazy dark brown body. Lots of malt and apple notes in the sweet and rather cloying aroma. Smells a little old and fusty. Dominating malty flavor with roasted and chocolaty notes. Sweet and smooth and easy drinkable. Not overly interesting, but a good drinkable beer.