La Brabançonne Ambrée Spéciale
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.31
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin. 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Tim needs to get rid of his ticks” Tasting. Enjoyed together with tderoeck, Benzai & Alengrin. 2005 Vintage. Hazy amber, little head. Nose is sweet cardboard, oxidation, vintage honey notes. Taste is thin sugar, oxidation, vintage honey, thin malts, leaves & overripe fruits. Body is heavily thinned out by age. This is just far too old.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled from bottle (vintage 2005) @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Hazy light orange color, small off-white head. Aroma is malts, sweetish, overripe fruits. Oxidation? Taste malts, overripe fruits, sweetish initially with the slightest hint of bitter in the finish. Hmm ok beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Du Brabant La Brabançonne Ambrée Spéciale (by Brasserie du Brabant):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.5/5
23/I/15 - 75cl bottle @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: n/a, 2005 vintage (2015-88) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear amber beer, aery off-white big bubbled head, unstable, dissipates immediately. Aroma: cardboard, bit funky, spicy, dry, caramel, bit sweet. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: lots of cardboard, dry, caramel, bitter, hoppy touch. Aftertaste: sweet, caramel, little bitter, malty, weird. Overage, I guess, but probably not great to begin with either.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
The Brasserie du Brabant, one of the few breweries in the province of Wallonian Brabant, apparently stopped brewing now, so fortunately I went there some years ago to buy a few bottles of this - the brewer handed me a few labels separately, which I had to attach to the bottles myself after getting home... Cream white, dense, sticky, stable head, deep reddish amber colour, hazy, warm. Lots of nutty and caramelly malts, red berries, unripe pear, peach, floral hops, cognac, old cheese, bark, honey and a jute- and barnyard-like hint reminiscent of Orval or some saisons. Restrained fruitiness, crisp with strong carbonation, vague candi-ish sweetness, strong walnut-like maltiness, lightly oily mouthfeel, peppery hops in the finish. Perhaps not the most refined ale, but very honest and appetizing nonetheless - yet hardly a foreshadowing of the new adventures this brewery would embark upon years later...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 75 cl) I know the brewery’s website claims this to be 7,5% ABV but the label says 9,0% ABV - don’t know which to believe. Beautiful deep amber colour with a small off-white head. Light caramel flavours, some malt and a rather dry, short, hoppy finish. So far the least refined and least interesting Brabant beer. Slightly disappointing actually. 310505