Struise Tsjeeses

Bottle, at cgarvieuk’s, with Stella, the kids, and Traci. Really great tasting Craig—thanks! Very pale gold, clean white head. Comforting rice pudding aroma with vanilla and cinnamon, fresh yeasty bread, a little hint of herbal hops. Light caramel flavor, buttery sweetness, soft and sweet. Some really nice things going on here, but the butter quality was sort of unexpected and off-putting. Might be something that makes more sense on a second tasting, but in this case, it was a little distracting.

Bottle @ Café Gollem. I must admit, I had high expectations after reading the ratings at ratebeer, but this one really disappointed me. It certainly didn’t live up to the hype. Pours hazy orange with a huge head, gushes out of the bottle. Smell is afwul, rotten vegetables and overripe fruit, very cloying. Made me say "Tsjeeses" allright, but not in a good way. Taste was also cloying, overripe fruit, melon, with a bit of a sour/acidic finish. There’s a lot going on in the flavours there, maybe I didn’t get it. Gets better when it warms up. Must admit, the mouthfeel is superb, really smooth and creamy. However, taste and smell were horrible imho.

Murky orange pour with a rocky off white head. Big funky aroma with hints of hops. Nice balance sweet and spicy. A great X-mas beer.

(Draught) Pours a hazy orange to amber colour. The aroma is sweet with tones of almond paste, (over) ripe fruits like banana, pears, yellow apples and kiwi. Bit spicy with tones of white pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger and maybe a touch of coriander and clove alongside some herbal hops. The flavour is of malt, almond paste, fruits, spices and hops. Medium to heavily sweet with some light, bitter dryness. The mouthfeel is soft, round and quite silky. Medium full bodied.

Bottle shared by Urbain @ Struise farm. Light hazy yellow in color. Very fresh farmhouse nose of yeast, yogurt, and a faint hop nose, and some dry, light candy sugar. Faint hop bitterness, minerally yeast throughout... seems like a tripel/saison hybrid, really quite delicious. Fresh, lively, nice mix of dry and sweet.