The Bruery Partridge in a Pear Tree

Brewed by The Bruery
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Placentia, California USA

(750ml thanks to mar) Pours a murky dark amber, huge oily bubbles. Nose is wet grass, alcohol, biscuity yeast and complex. Taste is also complex, spices, sweet malt but not caramel, there is also rubbing alcohol in the taste. Too sweet as well and lingers of sweet/bitter raisin with nose that I would describe as "off" as it warms. I really wanted to love this one, but only liked it.

Courtesy of fishingnet. Thanks Ben. It pours amber with a bit of haze and copper edges to go along with a thin tan head. The aroma is big and sticky with apple and pear sweetness, malt sweetness and some booze at the end. The taste is full on sweetness from pears and ripe red sugary slippery apples. By midway a layer of malt sweetness comes to the surface adding to the medley of sweet goodness. Nice drinking brew considering the big bold sweetness going on here.

Poured a red amber color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of caramel malts, cocoa, dark fruits, vanilla, rum soaked raisins, and a bit of alcohol. Taste of vanilla, caramel malts, some dried fruits, candied fruits soaked in booze, sweeter malts, and a fair amount of alcohol in the finish.

Bouteille de 750 ml partagée lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Glouglouburp. Arôme: Odeur de poire et de raisins avec une pointe d’épices. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée opaque. Présence d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de poire avec une pointe de pommes, d’épices et d’alcool. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement vineuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement fruité. (Rating #2498)

75 cl bottle at my garage-tasting May 8th. Thanks to yngwie. Reddish color, moderate beige head. Aroma is dried fruit, hops and caramel malt. Flavor is very sweet, fruit and some spices. Alcohol is well hidden in this almost-too-sweet-beer.

bottle by way of psprings and his cellar cleaning madness... Aroma of dried fruit and some pear in particular. Orange body with tan head. Flavor of dried pears and some spice in the mix. Odd brew...when did we sing blue christmas thought our jingle was the Hamms commercial jingle.

In short: An overly fruity syrupy sweet beer of some kind. Ok in small servings.
How: Bottle 750ml. Consumed 6+ months after the beer release. Bottle from kegbear, thanks Craig.
The look: Cloudy redish-brown body topped by a beige ring of foam
In long: Nose is very fruity and sweet. Taste is kind of a mess. I would describe the dominant flavours as very sweet concentrate fruit juice with some toffee and alcohol. Pears, prunes and more. A sensation of those can of concentrate fruit juice before you add the three cans of water. Very sweet and syrupy. Alcohol apparent. The Bruery brews I’ve had so far were either excellent or so-so. This brewery is like a hard-core feminist top model, I find it both hot and cold.

nick, it was elvis’ blue christmas...

bottle by way of psprings and his cellar cleaning madness... it smells like a puree of d’anjou pears, booze and brown sugar... throw in some malt powder, yeast and flowers to top it off. unfortunately, it taste like it smells... a sickly sweet mix of bruised pear juice, burning alcohol and malt powder... not completely unpleasant or wrong, just not my jug of punch. it is full bodied, sticky, thick and coating... however, i’d love to be able to cook with this stuff! 8/4/5/2/12/3.1