Biercreaties Pottelbergh Rustiek Bruin

Rustiek Bruin

 

Biercreaties Pottelbergh in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: De Meester
  Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular
Score
6.99
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 40 Ticks: 3
Pottelbergh Rustiek Bruin is een intens donker bier met een krachtige aroma en een complex smaak die met de jaren beter wordt. De pittige bite wordt gecombineerd met een smeuige mokka- en marsepeintoets. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van biologische vloeibare bruine suikers in combinatie met fijne kruiden.
Pottelbergh Rustiek Bruin heeft de kenmerken van een gemadeiriseerd bier, met eerst toetsen van geroosterde en gekarameliseerde mout, gevolgd door een hopbittere afdronk. Hoog tijd om te proeven! (EBC 115).
 

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6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

The 'massieve ale' (strong dubbel) in this series of Pottelbergh beers from Kortrijk, bottle from Dranken Pauwels shared with Steve. Medium thick, very mousy, membrane-lacing, opening, egg-white head on a hazy mahogany brown beer wiht ruddy hue. Aroma of hard caramel, ruby port, fresh thyme, clove, cranberry coulis, bubblegum, tea, 'jenever', brown honey, nutmeg, damp tree leaves, dried porcini. Sweetish, fruity onset, cooked red apple, medlar and pear, hint of sourish dried blackberries, medium carbonation with smooth mouthfeel, quite full; lingering candi sugariness over a hard-caramelly and brown-bready maltiness, sweet but carrying a soft toasty-bitter edge, leading to a very boozy finish with badly hidden, 'jenever'-like alcohol destroying the initially pleasant flavours rather than uniting them into a whole. Herbal hop bitterishness, candi sugar, clove-like phenols and caramel malt flavours turn out strong enough to survive this booze onslaught, though - but do not succeed in entirely saving the balance here. Too boozy and too phenolic for me, need finetuning, but I have to admit that the general idea is a promising one (if very classically styled) so this Rustiek Bruin could one day turn into a very solid quadrupel, if the Pottelbergh people are prepared to work on it a bit...

Tried from Bottle on 03 Jan 2021 at 01:23


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

31/12/2018 - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Dark brown, with big beige tanned head. Nose is dark malts, spices, bit fruits, licorice. Taste is malts, bit spice, licorice, bit nutty, some chocolate, roasted in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2019 at 07:02


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Imported from my RateBeer account as Pottelbergh Rustiek Bruin (Dubbel) (by Pottelbergh):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

31/X/18 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ Bosrijk Efteling, BB: 16/IV/20 - (2018-1624) Thanks to Jerre for the trade!
Clear dark purple brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: bit spicy, liquorish, some aniseed, caramel, some molasses, sugary. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: some banana, soft roast, some mocha, bitter, caramel. Aftertaste: roasted, some liquorish, spicy, sugary, caramel, mocha, soft roast, bitter, spicy finish.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2018 at 20:15