Struise Pannepot

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

2007 Bottle from MrPickles...thanks Andy--deep mahogany pour, nearly black, with nice rosy highlights and a light tan head. Dark fruit, oak, and red wine on the nose--very vinous. Rum and whiskey, dark fruit, dark chocolate, and finishes with a dry, oaky, bloodlike flavor (thanks Pepsican). Hides the 10%, and smooth. A nice beer, but not one that evokes poetry.

Pours a dark chocolate brown color with a generous head. Has a very complex aroma that has hints of caramel, currant, roasty malt, vinegar, oak, and slight hops, each sublte and none overpowering. As good as the aroma is, the taste is even better. A very complex taste of of bitters, sweet, and malt, with a nice touch of oak and sour on the finish. Love the taste of this beer. Again very complex in aroma and taste, but none of the characteristics overpowers. Has a creamy mouth feel.

Pours a dark brown with a nice red tinge and has a good amount of sediment floating in it - a good sign that this will referment inside the bottle. The smell is of roasted malts, sugar, apples, plums, and light malts, very nice indeed. The taste is amazingly complex and encompasses green apples, plums, brown sugar, with the slightest sting of alcohol. Probably one of the smoothest brews I’ve ever had

2007 bottle. Pours reddish brown with thin tan head, aroma is full of spices especially cardamom, dark fruit, and sweetness. Taste is complex, with spices, dark fruit, sweetness that goes into a slight sour funk, maybe Brett added? Excellent brew, with a little sour touch on the end.

Bottle, 2007 vintage. Slow gusher. Beautiful looking beer, dark dark brown with a pillowy white head. I get lots of plums and cherries in the smell with some candy cane and belgian yeast some caramel too. Taste is sweet but not overwhelmingly so, very well balanced as the sweetness is cut off by the alcohol. Palate is perfect, rich and chewy.

Bottle, thanks Vaiz! Thick black pour, large tanned head, nice lacing. Aroma is fruity, malty, some liquorice and bark. Wild ride of flavour, bitter hops, sweet fruits, some coffee and smoke. Very nice.

Great beer with a week aroma however. The taste is much better and interesting. Taste of caramel and spices and a hint of coffea.This is the 2007 and looking forward to the 2006 as well which I have bought as well.

Bottle at home. Pours almost black with a creamy tan head that quickly dissipates but leaves some lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, fruits and licorice. The flavor starts off fruity and sweet but then quickly moves to a more bitter presence with licorice and some hops. Very nice complex flavor.