Struise Rosse

Bottle sampled on 3/12/07: Pours a cloudy hazy copper with a thin, frothy light tan head. Aroma of sweet bready dark caramel sugar with some mild toasty notes and a touch of light oaky fruit. Body starts slightly sweet, thinner, dry and earthy with some toasty bready notes.

Muddy amber brown with a lasting off-white head. It may have been shaken a little and thus more muddy than it’s supposed to be. Aroma of malt and some fruit or berry (blackberries?), leather, and spice. Malt dominates the flavour which is rather sweet, but finishing dry, and has all the aroma elements even stronger. Did I sense a hint of wild yeast?

Bottle. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is malt, caramel, spices. Flavour is cellar notes, malt, alchohol, caramel, spices. Nice beer.

Bottle. This, the third Struise beer this evening stayed in the bottle for as long as we needed it to. Unclear, brown color with a beige head. Malt, caramel and berries in the aroma. Quite malty flavor with a vague sournessm berries and some faint notes of cigar-smoke. Full body and a long sweet finish with caramel and some berries. Quite nice. (070317)

33 cl bottle, courtesy of gunnfryd, who supplied it to our tasting. The ABV was 5.0%. Served at room temperature, which was too warm, and caused the beer to gush out of the bottle when opening. Reddish brown colour, decent head. Very nice aroma: oak, spices, leather, malts, fortified wine. Moderately spicy and malty flavour. Not bad!.

This beer has an extremely nice amber color and a huge, white head. The aroma has notes of fruit, caramel, spice and candy sugar. The flavour is smooth and full with sweet notes of caramel, candy sugar, fruit, citrus and a lot of it, in spite of the low ABV. Delicious and harmonic - yummi...

Poured a murky brown color with a large beige head. The aroma had notes of bubble gum, spice and toasted malt. Yeasty notes as well. The flavor was a mix of light sweet and light sour notes. Malty finish with spice. Prickly carbonation with some warmth. Semi-dry finish.

Thanks to the Atlanta crew for sharing. Very cloudy amber, thin white head. Nose is fruity spice, caramel, vague nutmeg & orange. Flavor is caramel, butterscotch/toffee, slight spices (nutmeg, etc)