Grand Crüe
Sixpoint Brewery in Brooklyn, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.58
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jmagnus87 (3298) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled during RBSG. From notes. Dark fruit, toffee, Belgian and baking spices, orange citrus.
Anders37 (30297) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ RBSG Grand Tasting. Pours a hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy dark fruit aroma. Fruity malty spicy dark fruit flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy dark fruit finish.
jtclockwork (20063) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. RBSG grand tasting. Pours brown white head. Nose/taste of orange candy, caramel malt and oak. Some sourness. Medium body.
deyholla (22839) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sampled at the 2014 RBSG Grand Tasting, thanks! Pours a cloudy amber with a brown hue and a tan head that dissipates immideately. Aroma has lots of dark fruit and toffee, with some oak and a bit of caramel underlying. Flavor has toffee with a touch of dark fruit and some earthiness in the finish.
Ibrew2or3 (10834) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Big thanks to MCLK for opening this 22oz bottle. It pours hazy near muddy amber with thin off white head. The aroma is sweet with crusty caramel malts, spices, spicy hops and some earthy hops. The taste has sweetness from intense maltiness and then moving into spicy and earthy hops. The malts have that aged crustiness to them. It has a nice aged barleywine feel to it but remains a touch on the bright side.
Sebletitje (15913) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ Miami Fandango ’10 gathering. pours brown/amber, no head. Aroma of floral hops, berry like fruits nose with hints of bitterness. Flavors, lots of dark fruits- prune-cherry, caramel malts, and floral mouthfeel, Found the finish to be a tad over bitter with a lingering yeasty mouthfeel. Did not pick up much of barrel aged in aroma or flavors.
beastiefan2k (4725) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Had this at a bar having a Sixpoint’s event. Color is dark murky brown, translucent at the edges. Cannot see throught the beer. Aroma is all hops (grapefruit and other tropical fruits). Taste is all hops as well, seems to be a Double IPA to me. Good amount of bitterness in this brew. Alcohol is well hidden however.
22oz bottle at Standard Pacific. Basically, its the same beer, not really Belgian-y, just hops and alcohol and big beer bang without much else.
notalush (7362) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Barcade - man, they must have had a really messed-up keg of this at EBF, because it really isn’t nearly as bad as these ratings suggest - it’s not great, but it certainly is a decent effort - comes out of the hand pump a clear red with a frothy head - the aroma is piney, with lots of strawberry and cherry and a decent dose of hops, much like some american barleywines (see Old Horizontal) - there really isn’t anything belgian-like about this, and I taste no signs of oak-aging or any qualities that might be derived from using wild yeast - I just taste the typical Sixpoint big beer signature: loads of sticky malt counterbalanced by a truckload of hops - more barleywine character by way of light caramel, lots of fruity esters (strawberry, apricot, citrus) - a bit cloying - drinkable, but nothing special - it kind of tastes like an amped-up version of their Global Warmer - I love these guys, but I’m starting to think they only have one trick in their bag - I think they need to focus on becoming more well-rounded brewers before they try experiments like these.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Grand Crüe from Sixpoint Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Wow. 3 different trappist yeasts, oak-aged and refermented with wild yeasts? Give this man a 5.0 for ambition.
Unfortunately, what is perceived from the aroma is a dominating sulphur smell, perhaps the most I’ve smelled from a beer. Behind that are smooth, even oak tannin notes, light esters of apricot/banana and only pieces of sugariness. Very difficult to describe as it is difficult to get past the sulphur.
The flavor has an odd, astringent mix of chemical-like sulphur notes, dry plastic and light phenols, with a papery sort of mouthfeel that really screams of overattenuation or poor extraction. Sharpness on the end, from light tannins and high alcohols with some moderate grainy/doughiness that attempts to smooth things out. Low to moderate carbonation, too lean of a texture.
Quite clear, amber-strawberry color, with large bubbles sitting on the edges of the glass and a wispy off-white head, that flits about at cover and provides scanty lacing. 2/3/3/1/6
New keg at ABF ’06 Much better, and in fact, qute tasty. None of the flaws of the keg at the Extreme Fest. This was actually quite nicely attenuated for its strength, with low alcohol apparency, light wood and a nice trappist yeastiness that wasnt overpowering. Didnt catch any of the wild yeast notes. Some tropical fruit esters, peaches and rich pale sugars with a comforting, unfiltered body. Lovely deep, burnished-copper/gold appearance with a moderately well-retained off-white head. Score is for this version. 6/3/7/4/15