Grand Cru
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Rotating|
Score
7.60
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Our other famous Belgian-style offering is our Grand Cru. As with Horny Devil, it is fermented using yeast which originated in a Trappist monastery in Belgium. A darker type of Belgian candi sugar gives it more color and a richer complexity of flavor, consistent with the Belgian style. Qualities Medium-dark brown, with tan head. Sweet, malty aroma with a satisfying balance of hoppiness. Tremendously intriguing, complex flavors play upon the palate shifting from sweet to tangy to hoppy and so on. The medium-dryfinish leaves you eager for the next sip. Awards Multiple awards, including Silver and Bronze in its category at the California State Fair, multiple years.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Poured a dark brown w/very little head. Lots of yeast and pretty light bodies. Fruits etc. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
huge aroma of malt, cherries, and chocolate. flavour is super malty, and have some wonderful notes of fruit cake, and ripe fruit. Quite a significant sherry finish. Nice and sweet, a good winter warmer. very doppelbockesque.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2025
at 09:36
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Аромат классический для Бельгии и этого стиля, он очень пряный, гвоздика, перец и прочие, немного темных фруктов, умеренный солод с нотками шоколада, хлеба и карамели. Цвет не полностью темный, скорее темно коричневый, пенка средняя но держится долго. Вкус тоже хороший, очень сбалансирован. Прежде всего темные фрукты, затем в теле ( кстати не сильно плотный для таких градусов ) есть нотки тех же пряностей. Послевкусие более дрожжевое, уже нотки шоколада и карамели, но без приторности, снова очень сбалансированно. Могут быть нотки от алкоголя. В целом просто отличный эль в стиле.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2025
at 11:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured from 750mL bottle (because I don't have luggage room to bring it back; 2015 vintage; bottled 12/07/2015). Mild gusher. Light mahogany brown with small beige head. Belgian yeast, caramel malt, feint esters, solid Belgian strong. Feint oxidation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Oct 2024
at 12:15
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Lukt: Frukter, rosin, karamell. Utseende: Brun. Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum. Smak: Frukter, rosin, karamell. Medium: Rating:3.8-748415, Flaske@750ml, ABV@10%, Når@03.02.2024. Hvor: Arkeologisk utgraving av ølkjelleren til Gunnar. AleSmith Grand Cru Belgian Ale - Strong Dark
Tried
on 03 Feb 2024
at 20:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
2017 bottle drunk 2023. Spotty off white head on a reddish brown still body. Boozy aroma with raisin & toffee. Medium bodied, smooth thinning out to a clean back. Chocolate, malt, toffee & raisin tastes with a fruity body. This has lost some body but still very tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2023
at 16:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Amber with a white head - Malt aroma with some belgian yeaty notes - Malt body with some caramle and some yeaty notes - The malt and yeasty flavours goes into the finish - This was good
Tried
on 12 Sep 2020
at 20:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. A- Malty, bread dough, slightly fruity, caramel. A- Copper color, clear liquid, minimal head. T- Malty, fruit cake, caramel, mild booze. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish. O- 5 years old. Pretty basic if you ask me. Not complex and really just bready malt and caramel. Wonder if this was better back in the day. I sure was not impressed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2020
at 00:06
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From backlog. Taster from old bottle at bottleshare, Escondido, Ca. Amber with offwhite head. Malts, belgian yeast, hops, caramel, sweetness,
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2019
at 22:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
LCRBM2: Vinous aroma with grapes and raisin. Sweet, vinous flavor. Raisinny hoppy finish. Very good.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07