1830 Le Roi
Scåssenes (previously Ecaussinnes) in Ecaussinnes, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.48
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. @ Delirium Café, Impasse de la Fidelite 4, Brussels, Belgium 1000. [ As Ecaussinnes 1830 Le Roi - Brune ].Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, sweet malt, moderate to heavy yeasty, belgium yeast, dark fruit, raisin, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, fruity, dark fruit, dark malt, belgium yeast, fennel notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20160916] 6-3-7-3-13
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
26/12/2016 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Hazy brown with nice light tanned head. Nose is sweet malty, caramel, fruity. Taste is malty, sweet, caramel, earthy, some bitterness
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
F: big, beige, good retention. C: very dark brown, red tones against the light, hazy with a lot of yeasty debris. A: malt, molasses, brown sugar, hint of DMS, candy, caramel, yeast, banana. T: malt, caramel, red vinous tones, red fruits, brown sugar, light cacao liquer, banana, blueberry, spicy, medium body, medium carbonation, in this ABV almost watery and it is quite surprise, not bad but sure nothing to remember, 0,33l bottle from Spar supermarket in Oostende. .
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours chocolaty Brown. Smellbis bit sweet . Caramel. Taste is mildly bitter, full chocolaty aroma, bit sweet, earthy, full. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Donkerbruin bier met schuim. smaak is krachtig, hopig biter en ietwat zoet met iets van karamel en chokolade.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
The quadrupel in this newish Ecaussinnes series, celebrating the birth of the Belgian state. Thinnish, off-white, moussy head leaving a steady rim, thin and disperse patches of lacing and some flat ’islands’ in the middle after a few moments; lightly hazy chestnut brown-bronze robe with warm burgundy hue. Aroma of toffee, candied cherry, raisin, medlar, a faint hint of DMS (cooked white cabbage) but luckily not overpowering, pear syrup, bitter honey, damp earth, cooked carrot, hazelnut, coriander seed, brown rum, kahlua, liquorish candy, soggy rye bread, ruby port, dried banana, marmelade, jute, fermenting tree leaves on a forest floor but no FFF, dried ginger, blackcurrant, cloves, blueberry, toast, dust. Spritzy onset, ’crackling’ carbonation even audible, but still not too coarse as the bubbles remain tiny in size (at least that is how they feel on the tongue’s surface), almost cava- or lambrusco-like; sweet, with a lot of residual brown sugar, along with esters reminiscent of sweetish pear, banana and red apple balanced with softly sourish blackberry and blueberry. Smooth, supple body, lighter than one would expect based on ABV which is considerable here; thoroughly caramelly malt sweetness acquires a gently bittering toasted and nutty edge as the beer passes through the mouth, turning effectively bittersweet, but it is still the sweetness - reinforced by residual brown sugar - which clearly dominates, while fruity esters and spicy phenols dance on top. Finish is ongoing sweetness which (barely) avoids becoming too cloying, malty and frankly, a little bit ’thin’ even though this beer carries 10% ABV, simply because it remains, in the end, underhopped: there is a whiff of earthy bitterness for sure, but not enough to build a finish worth mentioning. Soapy coriander ’bittersweetness’ lingers, with a somewhat resinous effect I really do not care for. Wodka-like alcohol lends a warming effect after swallowing but otherwise remains fairly modest in spite of this. Very earthy, sweet, inadequately hopped and slightly ’overcoriandered’ quadrupel, feels light in the mouth but lacks body and character. I prefer their Ultra Brune over this - or rather: in their respective (sub)styles, I think this one is less accomplished than its amber brother. This one to me is missing the point: do we not have enough of these half-hearted attempts at the great trappist quads already? Decent enough for what it represents I guess, but otherwise totally redundant, adding absolutely nothing to the Belgian beer map. I cannot imagine this being an alias of the more than adequate Ultra Brune, but then again, it’s been thirteen years or so since I had that one, so perhaps the recipe has changed into this... A side by side tasting of young bottles would prove interesting here, I think, especially since I am convinced that the amber version of 1830 is the same beer as Ultra Ambrée.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared. Slight hazy brown with a ring off white head. Aroma of malt, overripe dark fruit, caramel, toffee. Flavour is above moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle shared with Kermis. Almost no head. Almost black pour. A decent bruin
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Joes and Dutchdrebus. Clear red-amber color, small to average sized white to off-white head. Smell and taste malts, sweetish, some sweetish herb, spice, seed or fruit but I can’t tell which. Perfumy sweetness dominates the flavor. Not very interesting unfortunately. Doesn’t taste like 10% ABV though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle @ benzai. Clear brown colour with a small off-white head. Smells some alcohol, malts, herbs. Tastes glue, nailpolish remover. Thin body considered its 10% abv, fizzy carbo.