Recent Tasting Notes

Struise Pannepøt (16/20)

Medium brown and thin flat white coffee style head. Cooked aniseed and fruit cake on the nose. Expressive and powerful. Heavy palate with alcohol evident, together with a very nice coffee flavour. Palate is thick and powerful, although lacking some finesse.

(e3.25 @ t’ Brugs Beertje)

Buffalo Ginger Ale (5/20)

Bit like Twenty 20 cricket really - hard to take seriously. Very weird head action - heaps of fizz upon pouring that disolves at record pace. Light orange / apricot in colour. Sweet soft drink nose, heaps of sugary notes. Palate is mega sweet and its very hard to pick the alcohol. Masses of sugar sweetness although to be fair there is some well defined ginger flavours. Too sweet to be of much use to anyone.

Saint-Monon Bière au Miel (Honing) (11/20)

Thin creamy head with good viscosity. Orange to brown in colour and quite murky. Tough to get much out of the nose - faint sweet notes of malt and wheat at best. Palate is a little muted; some sweet candy malt notes are the most obvious flavour trait but mild strength at best. Finish is driven by tangy sweet notes. Serviceable beer that doesn’t really do enough to capture the imagination.