Brouwerij Het Anker Mechelschen Bruynen

Mechelschen Bruynen

 

Brouwerij Het Anker in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular Out of Production
Score
6.59
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 20
Replaced in 2005 by Gouden Carolus Ambrio 6.5%
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Portoaroma. Porto and apple flavor. Just a bit dusty. Grapes. The beer is a few years old probably and has become considerably thinner. Decent brew, though.

Tried on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:07


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle shared with tderoeck. Best before 2003. Redbrown colour, creamy beige foam. Nose of caramel, dried fruit (plums), brown sugar, some oxidation. Taste is sweet, malty, some notes of port. Rather sweet. Still very nice. This one kept up very well.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2019 at 08:14


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Imported from my RateBeer account as Het Anker Mechelschen Bruynen (by Brouwerij Het Anker):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

9/III/19 - 33cl bottle @ JefVerstraete's baby visit, BB: 24/I/2003 - (2019-353) Thanks to JefVerstraete for sharing the bottle!
Little cloudy reddish brown beer, small creamy white head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of caramel, dried fruits, bit oxidized, but not too bad, for such an old beer. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty oxidized, some orange peel, lots of cardboard, bit of caramel metallic touch. Aftertaste: more cardboard, oxidized, bit malty, soft acidity. Still very drinkable for a beer of almost 20 years old!

Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2019 at 21:12


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Beer named after a 15th-century style from Mechelen, eventually replaced by Gouden Carolus Ambrio and not extant anymore now. Deep amber colour, creamy, off-white head, caramelly maltiness, dried fruits, walnuts, smooth mouthfeel, sweetish onset with a bitterish finish. Very well-balanced.

Tried on 06 Sep 2014 at 09:34


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

33 cl. bottle sampled @ Kulminator thx! to Danko. BBF 18/06/2005. Pours a dark fox amber, small but steady off-white head. Oxidation is obvious in the nose, thinned out, metallic with some like liquorish in the back, touch watery & syrupy. Taste is quite oxidized, stale coca-cola, quite metallic, fizzy, watery, brown sugar, light liquorish, totally thinned out by age. Not the worst but largely gone now. Quite a few Anker beers keep & have kept exceptionally well, this one isn’t one of them.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2014 at 22:25


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Pours clear dark amber good white foam Smells some sugar . Bit metallic earthyness Taste is sweet , not that port as expected , yet some . Bit bitterness Nice one

Tried on 07 Dec 2013 at 10:28


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Kulminator. 2000 Vintage. Pours murky dark amber with a small creamy head. Nose is cellar, oxidation and caramel. Flavor is waaauw. Caramel, dark fruit and toffee. Vinous and deep. Amazing this is still drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2012 at 09:38


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle 330ml.Clear medium to dark red amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, burnt sugar, oxidide malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100603]

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2010 at 13:37


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

3rd June 2010 - Brasserie 4:20 - Bottle thanks to Alex! Clear deep amber beer. Little white head. Light palate. Toffee dominates. Sweet, rich and dark. Not much else going on but I’m not sure it’s needed either!

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2010 at 10:59