Grotten Santé
Brouwerij De Kazematten in Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.52
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The Grottenbier was created by one of the greatest Belgian brewers, Pierre Celis. The aim of Grottenbier is to see what the influence of a constant low temperature, such as in a cave, does to the evolution of a beer taste. In 2002, Pierre sold the beer (name and recipe) to Brouwerij St. Bernardus, where it has been commercialized for the last ten years. When De Kazematten became a possibility, St. Bernardus immediately saw a new home for the Grottenbier. The dream of Pierre became reality. The cooperation with the marl caves of Valkenburg and Kanne will continue in the future as well. In these marl caves you can experience what the low temperature do with the maturisation process of the Grotten Santé. Like the Grottenbier has matured there for the past 10 years, we will do the same with the Grotten Santé.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Relatively new beer from this Sint-Bernardus-allied brewing company (the name is more than a hint), with sticky, light beige head and misty bronze colour. Aroma of caramel, raisins, milk chocolate, toasted bread, red apple; sweet taste but nothing too cloying, some brown sugar there as well as overripe fruits, very low carbo (probably not indended) and therefore thinner body than it probably is supposed to have but lending it a kind of ’creamy’ feel; caramelly maltiness dominates, bit of ’worty’ sweetness, some peachy esters, honey; the rather pleasant sweetness persists but is being balanced by a subtle roasted and hoppy bitterness in the end. Not bad, but I feel this needs more work and more time, for now it comes across as an unfinished project.
Tried
on 26 Apr 2015
at 11:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy brown color. Clovey estry nose with some milk chocolate notes, but overall pretty damn boring.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2015
at 05:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle.Dark brown colour with small head.Aroma of yeast and brown sugar,feels good malty and hoppy with hint of raisin and hops,medium body and light finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2015
at 06:34
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Brown copper color, big white head. Aroma of banana, yeast and malt. Sweet taste of banana, yeast and a little hazelnut. Really sweet stuff. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Mar 2015
at 16:27
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Højt skum på Mandag i annen jan-15! vi er inne i en belgisk bølge - først Oud Beersel Framboise, så Oude Kam Kriek og så denne. Bæraroma med mørk kandis. Klar kobberfarge når skummet endelig elleger seg. Tørr, slank og elegant, lett fizzy. Meget lettdrikkelig - her er det ikke helt lett å beherske seg (særlig siden jeg ble bestefar for første gang i kveld!).
Tried
on 27 Jan 2015
at 15:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Shared bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 26.01.15. Nutty brow. Beige head. Nuts and dried berries in fruity aroma. Similar taste, balanced with bitterness. A slight hint of ginger, cardamom and clove. Quite dry and a bit fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2015
at 14:02
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours copper, cloudy. Aroma of bananas, dried fruits, caramel. Taste of raisins, sweet. Highly carbonated, thin bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2015
at 14:01
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 750ml. corked @ RBESG 14 Grand Tasting at Moncada Brewery, Unit 1 Middle Row, Kensal Town, Greater London, England W10 5AT. [ As De Kazematten Grotten Sante ].Unclear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate yeasty, dried fruit, sweet yeast, candy, belgium yeast. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, sweet malt, candy, yeast notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140809]
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2015
at 01:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Clear brown colour. Quite perfumey, herbal aroma. There’s a touch of clove and perhaps aniseed in this. Quite gassy.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2015
at 11:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
75 cl bottle. Pours hazy brown with a huge off white head. Aroma is fruity and light estery. Bitter, fruity and dry estery. Herbal. Dry estery fruity finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2014
at 08:39