Bruin voor Bruin
Brouwerij De Schuur in Lubbeek, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular|
Score
6.50
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diabel (1874) reviewed Bruin voor Bruin from Brouwerij De Schuur 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy brown body. Lightly brown creamy head. Aroma of honey, dark malts, brown sugar, caramel. Moderately sweet, moderately bitter remarkably fresh flavour for a brown beer.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Bruin voor Bruin from Brouwerij De Schuur 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
One of the latest beers from this extremely small but tenacious brewery, 75 cl bottle bought at Diesters Bierfestival. Thick, soapy, rocky, off-white, moussy head leaving a perfectly circular rim around the edge of the glass after a while, as well as a thick, papery lacing. Colour is a brownish ’dark amber’, misty from the start, which is usually not a good sign. Aroma kicks me with a lot of sewer water, damp forest floor, freshly ploughed spring farmland, wet mushroom and even menure (in the bad sense of the word, meaning very off-putting and even slurry-like!); clearly the dreaded H2S has struck here among with other off-flavours, overpowering more pleasant accents of caramel, a lot of clove-like phenols, milk chocolate, nutmeg, dried leaves, coriander seed, chestnuts, soaked brown bread, white pepper, some cocoa powder, unripe peach, dried sage and tea. Estery taste, strong presence of ripe pear, hints of figs, peaches and medlar, soft carbo, supple and notably resinous, smooth mouthfeel, lean caramelly malt basis, sweetish, bready and a tad chocolatey somewhere; finishes very yeasty, starch-like with a lightly powdery mouthfeel, paired with a sharpish edge of toasted malts as well as lingering fruit esters and a touch of herbal, earthy hops lacking in bittering power. Yeasty, almost cooked potato- or turnip-like earthiness lingers in the throat along with caramel malt sweetness and a deep, slightly spicy hop bittering accent; some warming alcohol shows up too, but (fortunately) only in the very end. Resinous and slowly drying coriander ’bittersweetness’ lingers as well, not a big surprise in this kind of beers. Lacks a bit of body for a dubbel, but that is not its biggest problem: the main issue here is a bacterial infection, leading to a slurry pit-like aroma which will appeal to no one, not even those who are used to ’dirty’ artisanal Belgians. It kept irritating me throughout the whole bottle, though I must admit that it did retreat almost completely after half an hour, giving more ’oxygen’ to the other aromas. Schuur’s beers, a rarity to begin with, are often hit or miss: this one to me is clearly a miss. By the way: I assume not many bottles of this brew have been put onto the market, but in any case my sample has a label which differs from the one on the photograph to the left...
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Bruin voor Bruin from Brouwerij De Schuur 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Schuur Bruin voor Bruin (by De Schuur):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.2/5
16/VII/14 - 75cl bottle from 5de Diesters Bierfestival (2013) (Gent) @ home - BB: 24/IV/16 (2014-816)
Bit hazy red to rust brown beer, big aery off-white head, unstable, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: milk chocolate, sugary, caramel, very sweet, spicy, cinnamon, dried fruits, bit bready. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, bit of an alcohol burn, caramel, bit sour, milk chocolate, sugary. Aftertaste: dusty, little sour, dried fruits, yeasty.