Tsjeeses
(has 6 batches)
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
7.38
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Strong blond winterbeer that matured for 8 months on different stonefruits. Tsjeeses was born out of a 5 year brewing experience regarding x-mas beer without being capable of finding a suitable name all that time. With the name came a face, a caricature actually, that was drawn on the day Urbain, our brewing slave, drank too many Tsjeeses’s. Every time he drinks one, he says "Tsjeeses, what a beer". Therefore the name is more an expression of stupefaction than a curse.
We have had already many discussions around the pronounciation of "Tsjeeses". Very close would be that you say "cheeses" or cheese in plural.
We have had already many discussions around the pronounciation of "Tsjeeses". Very close would be that you say "cheeses" or cheese in plural.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Orange color with huge head. Dry spicy yeasts, a slight hint of funk. Fruity as well, peaches. Taste is sweet, fruity, strong. Very complex. Incredibly well-balanced. A very good one! 2010 bottle tried in Dec. 2016 - the same vocabulary, a real beauty. Held up great!
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2014
at 11:44
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2013 edition with a best before date of 31/12/2018. Blew up on me when opened and went all over the place. What was left from it was cloudy amber with lots of sediments floating around. Foamy light-brown head, lasting long enough and with thick soapy lacing. Fruity aromas with apples, mild peaches, caramel, yeast and the sugar. Not as sweet for the taste, but the apples and caramel are present. Some decent smooth bitterness and grass flavours in the finish. Well-brewed, but not something I would have again (not my style).
Tried
on 12 Nov 2014
at 22:38
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Originally a Christmas ale, matured on stone fruits. Peach blonde, misty blonde beer under a creamy, off-white head. Strong and inviting aroma of peach, orange, honey, white pepper, sourish wheat, melon, dried apricot, white wine; very fruity onset built on a deep bready and caramelly malt sweetishness, some drying woody hints, complex, with a deeply warming aftertaste of aromatic hops, malt, fruit and warming, brandy-like alcohol. Jesus, what a beer... is what one of the Struise brewers allegedly called when this was tasted the very first time. Not sure if this should be classified as a tripel, but surely it ought to be classified as a world-class Belgian strong.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2014
at 10:01
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
A 2013 bottle that began to creep out of the bottle. Amber with a large off-white head that fades but never gets close to disappearing. Intensely fruity and yeasty aroma with oranges, jammy apricots, peaches, raisins, dough, leather, ginger, mace, oloroso sherry. Creamy, quite carbonated. Sweet dried fruit and sherry with vibrant fresher fruit on top. Dries out only a little at the end, with spiced oranges coming to the fore. Warming, but no unintegrated booze. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2014
at 08:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This was poured into a sniffer.
The appearance is a hazy semi-dark brown color with a nice somewhat fluffy white foamy head that ends up lightly concaving in its lacing against the glass. There’s some nice adequate foamy lacing trying to stick but sliding for the most part.
The smell has a nice chocolate malt up front that once it warms there’s a nice light spice gently coming through - mainly some ginger and allspice, but I do get some light clove.
The taste was sweet and spicy and the chocolate really takes over for the most part and actually tastes more like cocoa nibs than just plain chocolate.
There’s a quick dry spicy and slightly cocoa finish.
On the palate, this one sits right on the medium bodied. It wants to show some sort of sessionable aspect but shows a nice sipping quality about it.
Overall, this one is a very nice Belgian Strong Ale worthy to have around the holidays. I hope to see this again this winter as I can only imagine what its like fresh.
The appearance is a hazy semi-dark brown color with a nice somewhat fluffy white foamy head that ends up lightly concaving in its lacing against the glass. There’s some nice adequate foamy lacing trying to stick but sliding for the most part.
The smell has a nice chocolate malt up front that once it warms there’s a nice light spice gently coming through - mainly some ginger and allspice, but I do get some light clove.
The taste was sweet and spicy and the chocolate really takes over for the most part and actually tastes more like cocoa nibs than just plain chocolate.
There’s a quick dry spicy and slightly cocoa finish.
On the palate, this one sits right on the medium bodied. It wants to show some sort of sessionable aspect but shows a nice sipping quality about it.
Overall, this one is a very nice Belgian Strong Ale worthy to have around the holidays. I hope to see this again this winter as I can only imagine what its like fresh.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jul 2014
at 17:36