Struise Besty

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Sampled at the Pre-ZBF festival at Alvinne. The sign described the beer as a quad aged in a port barrel and coming in at 10% abv. This beer was also brewed with violet flowers. The beer poured an orange/brown body with a thick, fluffy off white, tan head some solid lacing around the glass. The aroma is malty, a bit of wood and some floral notes as well. The taste is pleasing for sure. A malty sweet up front character with some alcohol and wood notes as you work your way through the beer. The violet flower added a different, maybe spiced character to this beer that was very intersting.

Draught at Pre ZBF, Alvinne, 06-03-09 Pours a murky puddly amber colour with light beige head. Some woodiness, nuts and alcohol are very much in eveidence on the nose along with good dollop of yeastiness. Taste is quite spirity, some tropical fruits, bit of boozy banana its quite nice but I found that the alcohol dominated a little too much at times. Interesting though. A7 A3 F7 P3 OV14 3.4

Draught @ Pre-ZBF Alvinne. A dark brown colored beer, with a creamy light beige head. The aroma is fruity, malty and there are flowers. The taste of brandy, fruits, flowery, alcohol well hidden. With some hints of wine/porto. The aftertaste is fruity.

on tap at Pre-ZBF pours hazy orange and brown with a thin tan head. Aroma was sweet with a sour fruit note. Flavors were nice with some sweet malt and an earthy sourness in the finish. Very interesting and complex flavors in the finish that I couldn’t explain.

Bottle at PreZBF at Alvinne. Cloudy orange brown coloured with a medium sized creamy beige head. Fruity aroma of caramel, fruits and dried fruits with notes of brew mash. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits and fruits with notes of brew mash and alcohol- Warming alcoholic finish.

From tap. Pours almost clear and golden orange with a small dense off-white head. Aroma is yeasty and malty with a light fruity note. Clear alcohol presence and dense malty flavoured. Slight wooden and spiced. Mild fruity and dense malty finish. The violet flowers really give this a different twist. There are however many other Struise beers better than this, but an interesting brew.

Draught Pre Zythos Alvinne. Pours muddy murky maroon brown with a large head. Heavy malts, molasses, toffee, violets. Very sweet appealing nose. Medium bodied, alcohol in the texture.

Draught Huge, very fine yellowish head, leaving textbook lace, over deep-red amber beer with slight haze. Pours like gushing from the tap. Almonds, perfume, toilet soap, rosepetals. Almonds, bit of oxydation, almondcake, rosewater. Medium bodied, very slick, pure gristfeel. Nice, if just a tad overperfumed. I was convinced rosewater had been added, until I learned about the violets...