Drakendoder Bruin
Brouwerij Cornelissen in Opitter, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.25
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
24/05/2015 33cl bottle from trade with tderoeck. Clear brown with big tanned head. Dark malts, metallic, ripe fruits, light bitternes, some sweetness but not that sweet as a lot of other browns.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Drakendoder Bruin from Brouwerij Cornelissen 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Many thanks to tderoeck for trading this bottle (among others) for a Doelse Dwarskop Tripel. Apparently very new, and made for the municipality of Bree. Medium thick, light beige head breaking open after a while, colour a deep, ’autumny’ kind of brownish copper, slightly hazy. Aroma of cookie dough, lots of iron but in a ’bad’ kind of way, candied dates, cashew nuts, apple cake, very sweet and industrial honey, candi syrup, sweet cherries, overripe banana and strawberries, powder sugar, crème au beurre, fried egg but a faint hint of sewer water as well. Fairly neutral onset for a beer in this style, minerally with quite sharp carbonation, some restrained fruitiness but seeming to hail more from the malts than from fermentation; then a straightforward caramelly, sweetish, somewhat bready maltiness sets in, a bit nutty too, with a clearly resounding metallic sound to it. Finish is primarily lingering caramel (I suspect a lot of artificial caramel syrup is at work here), sweetish, with the iron continuing as well as a leafy, (too) restrained hop bitterishness and some faint solvents. Feels a bit weird, metallic and thin: are we sure this is even top-fermented? I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this would prove to be a deviation from Bokkereyer - which, as much as the brewery tries to hide it, we all know is a lager. Still, not the worst lager I ever tasted. Consider this a German, bottom-fermented Dunkelbock, which is probably close to the truth, and you end up with something "true to its style", as we are then supposed to say. In that case I can agree with this - but as a "Belgian ale"? Sorry, but no.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Drakendoder Bruin from Brouwerij Cornelissen 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Drakendoder Bruin (by Brouwerij Cornelissen):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5
22/XII/14 - 33cl bottle @ home - BB: 24/X/16 (2014-1522) Thanks to Marc for getting me this bottle!
Clear brown beer, big creamy beige irregular head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: sweet, caramel, sugary, banana, yeasty, malty some grains. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very metallic, caramel, bit sugary, bit of banana, sugary again, little bitter. Aftertaste: metallic, caramel, banana, bit sugary, yeast, some chocolate, grassy bitterness.