The Bruery 5 Golden Rings

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Placentia, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle randomly discovered at DLM. Can you have a pineapple spiked Belgian Ale? That’s what this seemed like. Very fruity with a little clove spice and hint of banana too. ABV well hidden. Fine overall.

Bottle @ home. Pours clear burnt orange to copper with a small, fizzy white head, short retention with spare lacing. Aroma is pineapple, Pils and biscuit malt, light butter, spicy and earthy hops with Belgian candi sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg notes. Flavor is buttered biscuits, pineapple and ham, pear esters, no hops or bitterness, light peppery alcohol, and a very sweet finish. Full body and medium carbonation.

Draft @ the brewery. Pours a golden color with a white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty cinnamon flavor. has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish with hints of caramel.

Bubblegum, other store candies, not really pineapple. Taste is sticky, tart, now I taste a little pineapple, but also a fair amount of chemical weirdness. It’s so close to tasting like exotic tropical fruit, but in the end is very sticky and unnatural.

hazy golden color with ivory sheen. Nice tart pineapple, mango, tropical fruit aromas with a fruitcake, caramel maltiness. Medium body with average co2. Lightly tart pineapple, tropical fruit flavors with sweet spicy caramel, clove, banana, spicy yeast--warming finish---very tasty wintertime treat.

Appearance was hazy orangish copper yellowish with diminishing white creamy 1/2 finger head, no lacing. Aromas are pineapple, spices with cake like Belgian floral yeasts, no alcohol present. Taste are mostly pineapple, slight cinnamon, ginger, hints of lemon with farm like yeasts, alcohol present. Palate was soft tiny CO2 with medium body, then lasting pineapple alcoholic finish. The alcohol ruins it for me.

75cl bottle. Appearance: clear blonde beer, unstable white head. Nose: extremely spiced, pineapple. Taste: lots of pineapple, very sweet, alcohol.

Taster poured orange-yellow with no head. Though I wasn’t aware this had pineapple, those notes dominated the nose. This ale is overly sweet, medium-bodied, with low carbonation. It does hide the alcohol under the syrupy texture.

A - Slightly hazy golden-orange with a finger of frothy white head. Fades normal. S - Sweet caramel and grainy malts, pineapple, citrus hops, lemon zest, Belgian yeast, coriander, clove, ginger, cinnamon, other spices, hint of booze. T - Sweet caramel and lightly grainy malts, pineapple juice, citrus hops with a bit of bitterness, lemon zest, Belgian yeast, coriander, clove, cinnamon, ginger, other spices, and some booze. M - Medium-full bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth with a spicy, sweet, and warming finish. D - Very drinkable. Great BSPA with the spices being complex and well balanced and the pineapple juice is a nice touch.

75cl, new American brew Anno 2012, with cinnamon, ginger and pineapple juice, from De Hopduvel Gent, complex brew, heavily sweet/spicy and fruity/alcoholic, heavy, not balanced, hazy, good head, nice X-Mas brew, yet expensive!