Brut Cuvée Royale
Brouwerij Malheur (formerly De Landtsheer) in Buggenhout, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.87
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottled, 4 years past drink by date. Honey malt nose, some oxidation, peaches, esters, sweet orange, creamy. Lots of hoeny in the flavor, mead-like really. Light tangy barnyard flavors as well. Interesting and nice but not as good as the other two.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75 cl bottle @ Poatersgat, Bruges. Rated on 17.07.2010
Aroma has some apricot, boozy and floral notes. Flavour has apricot, citrus, Belgian yeast, sticky malt and some fruity notes. Good, but still a disappointment in Malheur Brut series.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Malheur Brut Cuvée Royale (by Brouwerij Malheur (formerly De Landtsheer)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 5/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4/5
15/VIII/2012 75cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ Erwin's BBQ - BB: 1/VIII/13 (2012-932)
Pretty clear yellow blond beer, some small sediment floating around under an aery off-white head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: bit sugary, floral, some citrus, little grassy. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: very spicy, gingerbread, cloves, (peperkoek, but that's a Dutch/Belgian thing), some citrus, cloves again, somewhat sugary, bitter hops, chocolaty touch. Aftertaste: bitter hops, quite an alcohol burn, pretty spicy, some citrus again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared (2005 vintage). Pours hazy yellow with a medium white head. Aroma is yeasty, fruity, funky sour, and damp. Flavour is medium sweet, bitter and sour. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Far from the best Malheur I’ve tried but maybe just past it’s best.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle, 0.75 l, at Oluttupa Viisi Penniä, 20120515) The beer poured hazy yellow. Its head was medium sized and white. Aroma had fruitiness, wood and honey. Palate was quite light bodied and warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, sweetness, wood, honey and bitterness. Aftertaste was sweet, a bit boozy and bitter. Thin and boozy but not completely bad. The trippel flavours were nice.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
75cl bottle vintage 2005, aged in my beer cellar. Ok white head. Very hazy blond pour. Very nice!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750 ml dark green "champagne" bottle, as Malheur Cuvée Royale Brut Reserve, from Vinmonopolet Vika, Oslo (bought in October 2011). ABV is 9%. Hazy pale yellow colour, huge white head. Refined aroma of farmhouse (does that make sense?), farmhouse kitchen / brettanomyces, hints of oxidised fruits and mild spices. Crisp, medium dry and spicy flavour. Moderate hops. Well balanced, "refined" seems to be the right word for the flavour too. The alcohol is well hidden. Quite enjoyable.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 10
toast, resin, citrus, herbs, leaves, cough drop, pale, clear, sparkling, white foam, light sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, full body, thick feel, average carbonation, bitter,
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
0.75l bottle shared with The Tasting Crew. This one pours a light clouded champagne looking body packed with small floaters and a lasting sidesticking white head. The aroma has lots of sour-ish apples, some yeasty tones, some other fruit that it's hard to describe, but it's quite alright. Average to a bit less than average carbonation levels and a mild smoothish body. Kinda on the candy-sweet side this one. Nice and light yeasty flavors, it has both earthy and flowerish tones. A nice sweet and warming finish. Yeah, quite nice stuff!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pale straw yellow, hazy. Frothy head which gets very small fast. Aromas of yeast, citrus, honey, and hint of alcohol. Mild hop flavour and sweet grain. Hints of warming alcohol in the back. Medium bitterness with a medium duration. Much carbo. Slick and watery, medium body. A very fresh and well balanced classic belgian strong pale ale.