Pius X (Amber)
De Graal in Brakel, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.11
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yespr (55501) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy orange with small white head. Aroma is dry phenolic and toasted malty. Bitter, toffee and caramelish. Phenolic and light bitter. Toffee and caramelish malty finish.
Beertalk (16424) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dark amber with a small off-white head. Malty aroma with dried fruit, winegum and bubblegum, a touch of spice, and vineous alcohol. Sweet and rich flavour with dried fruit, phenolic spice and some sugar, and quite a bit of yeast. Nice dry finish
Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Odense Tasting June 2013. Thanks Christian. Pours cloudy golden with a white head. Sweet and fruity nose and flavor with a whiff of alcohol. Peach, grass and caramel. Vinous without being overly complex and quite dominated by the alcohol.
Svesse (15730) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
(Bottle, Nuetnigenough, Brussels, 21 July) Amber colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of dried fruit, orange marmalade, spicy hops and hints of cellar. Malty, fruity taste with caramel, marmalade, orange peel, candy sugar and a mild spicy bitterness in the finish. Full body, quite sweet. Smooth rounded mouthfeel, quite tasty and excellently balanced. Very nice beer.
fiulijn (28382) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Nuetnigenough, Bruxelles, lot11022, bb 08/2012
Cloudy amber color, large compact head, but short retention. Malt aroma with tones of soil, not unheard of in Belgium, but not exciting; also a hint of apples. Good body strength; anonymous caramel flavor, with moderate sweetness, and no maltiness; the alcohol is too evident, there are traces of vegetables and liquorice; common bitterness.
Suitable for getting drunk, more than for the pleasure; the style can’t ever be Barley Wine, it’s just another Strong Ale.
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Dumpy 33cl brown bottle, best before 08/2012, poured into my huge ’Judas’ glass in 11/2011. Almost prevented any sediment getting into the glass, but got cocky towards the end of the pour and allowed some to ruin the look of the beer, bugger. Murky autumnal red colour with a good white head of bubbles, not sure if it would have been clear even if I’d poured more carefully. The smell was of infused honey esters trapped in a bed of Belgian yeast on some toffee covered shortbread biscuits: so it had a sweet smell, fruity too (apples and plums). The taste was an extension of the smells, but with alcohol and spicy hop notes adding to the flavours. Really, really impressed, can’t remember where I got it from, most likely De Bierboom in Brugge?. I love it when I find beers like this: 2.00 Euro’s and a joy to drink. I may well have styled it on BA as a Strong Pale Ale, but it sits well within the barleywine or quad areas just as easily.
77ships (14506) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
(21/08/2011) bottle@GBF 2011: hazy orange with a white head, dense malt, slight fruits & a lot of caramel, lots of brown sugar & spices in the aftertaste, warming, lith to medium body, med. carb., somewhere in-between a quad & a barelywine but pretty far away from the style in general ///// (05/11/2013) Had another one of these @ Nüetnigenough. Very interesting & solid stuff. 3.7 -> 4.2. Didn’t take notes.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Utterly dense, tight-bubbled, cream-coloured head over fully hazy orange-amber beer. Alcohol, warm malts, and green herbs. Harsh flavour, greenmalts, raw alcohol with a sweet (alcoholic) fiish. Sweetness mounts even, warming up. Apparently brewed with ginger, but I could find hardly any, if any at all. Harsh (again) MF, slick, (alcohol)warming feel. Less than the sum of its parts, rather disappointing. A punch, and that’s it. Rather the topfermenting equivalent of a malt liquor, than a Barley Wine.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Pius X (Amber) from De Graal 14 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Pius X Amber (by De Graal):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
20/05/2011 33cl bottle @ Eetkaffee Multatuli- BB: 12/11 (2011-218)
Cloudy amber to brownish beer, creamy white head with big bubbles, adhesive and pretty stable. Aroma: herbal, grassy, spices (ginger), some yeast, cheese, a bit metallic. MF: good carbon, full body. Taste: spices, come caramel, lots of sweet malts, pepper, cloves, ginger, wild honey. Aftertaste: a little sour twist, sweet caramel and more spices. Very good stuff.