Aarschotse Bruine (1993-2012)
Brouwerij Huyghe in Melle, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.06
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aarschotse bruine tielemans 5% 1980 - 35 years old! At Kulminator. But still with a branded glass and a clear deep amber brown with some head but fairly minimal. The nose is sweet malty caramel fudge. Thick full smooth body. The taste is tart sour brown caramel maltiness. Actually surprisingly refreshing. Not sure what it was like to start but now it’s an acidic tart light beer. Yum.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Mostly clear brown colour, no head. Aroma of caramel, raisins, dusty. Sweet flavour, caramel, cola. Sweet finish, caramel, cheap sherry wine. Very old, BBF 2002. Interesting but it didn’t keep up well (while some Oud Bruin beers do keep up quite nicely).
(From 25cL bottle @ Kulminator. Combined purchase)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle ( brewed at biertoren ) at julminator . Pours mudfy , clear brown . no real head . Smell is dusty and sweet . taste is sharp & sweet , some nuts , some faded chocolate . Easy drinkable , bit sweet ( port aspects ) watery mouthfeel and aftertaste , nut 13 y old and 4 abv would expect a way weaker taste . Nice .
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Combined purchase by the group. 25 cl. bottle BBF 12/2002 @ Kulminator sampled. Murky cola brown beer that has clearly already fallen apart. Taste is pure oxidation, watery bad / fake cola syrup in the nose mixed with iron. Taste is totally shot as well, watery mixed stale old fake cola, completely oxidized, bad sugar water. Carbonation is basically gone. Unsurprisingly totally dead. I doubt that it was ever stellar even when still alive. Apparently this was an Oud Bruin, interesting, well whatever it was I think that it is safe to say that it is gone now.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
A hazy orange beer with an off-white head. The aroma is primarily of oranges, slightly over ripe, combined with light metal notes, and so is the flavor, while the body is a bit thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 25 cl) Hmm, label doesn’t say Huyghe anywhere, only Biertoren. But since the latter closed in 1993 and this bottle was bought in 1998 I reckon it’s the Huyghe version. I believe it was a blending beer originally (Speciale & Lambic?) but don’t know if that’s still the case. Dark, reddish brown - not much head, or carbonation for that matter. Very quenching acidity but a lot less sharp and metallic than other sour ales. Vinous and very light-bodied with some roasted notes from the malt. Very interesting. 150298
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pretty aged bottle, might well hail from Biertoren in Kampenhout Good ochre head, not lasting; slightly hazy amber beer. Caramel, artificial sweetener or cassonade nose, and a very, very faraway acidity (which was the hailmark of the original Aarschotsen bruinen), yoghurt and some nuttiness. Much more lively acidity, metallic and probably lactic acid, yoghurt again, and some biscuity-nuttiness. Light bodied, not thin however, rather refreshing. Metallic aftertaste. Nice, but nowhere up to the stuff of old (Tielemans,...)