Struise Pannepot

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

Poured from an 11.2 oz bottle (2006) and served in a St. Sixtus trappist glass. This beer poured a deep, dark brown with a thin head of tan foam that lasted throughout the entire glass. A decent amount of slippery lacing was left behind. The aroma of the beer was made up of sugary sweet dark fruits, caramel, candi sugar, chocolate, and some light alcohol. The flavor consisted of baker’s chocolate, caramel, brown sugar, dried dark fruits, and a healthy dose of warming alcohol. Really, really tasty! The mouthfeel was lush and silky smooth with a light amount of soft carbonation. This beer deliveried an excellent aroma along with a huge, complex array of flavors. It doesn’t get much better than this. A fantastic beer!!!

A really dark red color. Not much head but smells super sweet. You can smell all kinds of fruits going on here. Rasions, grapes, etc.. Taste is prunes, raisons, grapes and all other kinds of sweet fruits. Great texture, thick but not like stout thick. So smooth, Now I know why people love belgium beer so much. I also like the 10 percent, that you can barely taste. Great beer another every day drinker. Smooooooooth is all I have to say

I’ve never had a pour quite like this. The yeasty sediment was wonderfully visible in the last cloudy drops that fell from the bottle into my chalice that is reserved for such world-class brew-vadery. The aroma about knocked me over with strong dried prunes and burned brown sugar. The beer is very malty, creamy, and full on the tongue. The yeasty breadiness is evident throughout the experience. The flavor is complex and well-balanced with the warm presence of brown sugar, caramel, cloves, and dried fruits. The finish is clean with a slight alcohol burn and the Belgian "apple-white grape thing" (as one reviewer noted). This is one rich beer and took me a good thirty minutes to drink, but every sip a savor! As I finished the glass, I thought, Jeebus, this is only the fourth best Belgian strong ale they make?

Had a full body with deep tones of chocolate, burnt oats, and rich malty richness. Very creamy and smooth. One of the best beers I have had and would buy again in a heart beat.

Feb. 2007 - Dark brown pour with huge foamy longlasting head, nice lacing. Aroma was weak and mostly alcohol. Reminded me a lot of Rochefort 10 with strong dark fruit raisin/prune flavor, but this one, while super sweet, was nicely balanced with a whole host of other fruits, candied sugar. One of the richest beers I’ve had. Nice thick and creamy mouthfeel. Very nice.

A geyser upon opening with sugar and alcohol hitting me in the face from a foot and a half away. Doesn’t have a nose you could lose yourself in, but quite nice. Raisiny brown sugar upon first taste with a very mild alcohol chaser and some molasses there on the back end as well. Palate is a bit thick for my taste, but if slightly cloying stickness is to your taste, this thing has body to burn. Almost reminds me of some richer American sweet stouts. It’s saving grace is that it has Belgian yeast in spades, so even though it’s a powerful brew, you get the underlying apple-white grape thing and that just adds to the complexity. Very good.

2006 33 Bottle. Pours deep dark brown with a mocha creamy head the fades fast into thin craters. Wonderful aroma of nutty varnish, vinegar, & nutmeg. Dark molasses, nuts, spice, sweet rich malt, brown sugar, burned toffee, dark fruits, and well hidden alcohol. Milk chocolate, sherry, tobacco & raisin finish, ever so slightly bitter. This one’s got everything, its an acid trip of flavors. Very syrupy, nice light fine carbonation, except not enough to match the viscosity of the body, which makes it more of a dessert beer. I kinda want to pour it over pancakes. This stuff is very very good. After a while it starts to take on some Imp Stout characteristics. This is not beer (ale) contrary to what is says on the label, but rather delicious delicious candy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007 33 Bottle enjoyed 1/12/09 lot B 7 BB. Noticeably more varnish in the aroma, more on the sour side. Flavors not quite as developed, still very very tasty, definitely more on the flemish brown/sour side of things, a lot more acid than I remember. Not as dark and viscous as the 2006 bottles, light and airy... I almost thought I opened a bottle of the Danish version by mistake...??? Supremely drinkable. 10.5.10.4.18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2007 33 bottle enjoyed 9/19/09 lot A 2 CC. Been way too long since I opened a Pannepot. Pours a dark dark unclear tootsie-roll color with a huge tall foamy light tan head 4.5. Oooooooo!!! I love the aroma. It brings me right back to the farm. I close my eyes and it’s almost like being there. Ridiculously unique spicy rich aroma, a little milky this time, the roast barley is magnificent, varnish, peanut butter, nutty, hay, vinous, tootsie-roll chocolate, milk duds 9. First sip, mmmm, what?, mmm, thinking thinking, been a while since I’ve had one of these, takes a second to acclimate to the strong unique taste once again, rich dark syrup, grassy chocolate, lots of fruit this go, sweet dark fruits, rum cake, molasses, spices that I’m not even going to begin to guess at, I definitely see the stout influences this time, some light acidity, finishes very rich with bitter tobacco and rum raisin aftertaste. Medium/full bodied, closer to full, somewhat viscous and syrupy but with lots of corse carbonation. Again, I’ve discovered that even 60F is too cold, room temperature is a must for beers of this complexity. I desperately want to get my hands on some more pannepeut now as I’m down to my last bottle. 9.5.9.4.17

Very enjoyable, yet uncharacteristic for what I was expecting. Warmth generates from the nose, with some zesty garden spices, and then some madeirized sweetness. Lots of sweet malt flavor with an ample amount of dark fruits, and spices, with the yeastiness showing through as well. Tobacco and black tea leaves, brown sugar and a small hint of spicy fruitiness. A sweet creamy treat, with a flavor of orange marmalade and chocolate truffles. Very well balanced acidity and mouthfeel. I would drink this again if I had the opportunity.