Delhaize Beer & Cheese Edition

Beer & Cheese Edition

 

Delhaize in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪

Brewed at/by: De Proefbrouwerij
  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
6.49
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 25 Ticks: 7
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Tried on 01 Apr 2018 at 00:58


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

Paired this with about 15 cheeses, also versused it to a vin jaune. Pours unclear, warm amber. medium sized, white head. Decent stability, also some lacing. Smell is malty, with some mild maltose left. No real hops, some mild esters. Taste is full, malty, creamy body, mild sidenote of the anis, giving more of a robust, complex spicyness, rather than actual anis taste (to my enjoyment! ). Bit sweet, mild esthery ending. The beer worked well with all the cheeses, but I wouldn't specifically put this forward as the best cheese pairing beer.

Tried on 17 Mar 2018 at 22:13


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

Bouteille 75cl de Delhaize Enghien. Bien joué que chaque Delaize reçoive sa propre étiquette. Couleur brune/ambre, col blanc-cassé. Arôme est classique, malté, grillé, fin chocolaté avec un renforcement anisé très plaisant. Les effluves sont classiques mais bien rendues. Retrouve un rétro noble sur les houblons. Palais offre un profil très belge niveau levure mais avec un agréable effet malté qui tire sur le grillé avec pointe de chocolaté et un côté star anise qui confère un beau fini épicé. Le tout sur un houblonné plutôt noble qui confère un léger fruité et fleuri allemand pour une amertume plutôt discrète et qui balance bien le malté.

Tried on 08 Feb 2018 at 09:57


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

Small to medium yellowish head, stable, leaving a fine lace curtain over muddy ochre to amber beer. Bit toasted, lightly roasted nose, sweetish. Something spicy too, clove, aniseed. Bitterish-spicy. Again light-coloured, sweeter malts in the underbuild. Clove again, other spices, traces of meatesters (the aniseed or the yeast?). Quite slick, medium bodied, light alcoholwarming. OK, nothing special; Tasted with cheese, (Pampam cumin), the bitter is more prominent, good cutting through the fat, but it doesn't get better for it. 6/4/6/3/13

Tried on 28 Jan 2018 at 19:06


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

Bottle, Roodebeek edition, seems they have them branded by region. Caramel with a full off white head. Aroma of fruity malt. Flavour is fruity caramel, warm spiced berries, yeast on a spicy finish. Lingers nicely on the mouth.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2018 at 15:28


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle from the Delhaize supermarket at the Ghent Watersportbaan - and apparently at least the label is made exclusively for it, strange... Intended to be combined with cheese. Thick, coarse, irregular, egg-white, quickly dissolving head, hazy warm amber colour with coppery hue. Aroma of old toast, dried apple peel, 'can' iron, bird seed, dry cookies, star aniseed, dried banana, plastic, camomile, dried apricot, hot cloth. Fruity onset in a clean and subdued way, hinting at banana, apple and peach, restrained with a sourish edge, very sharply overcarbonated and numbing the tongue a bit; lightly toasted and nutty malt body, bit soapy, some plastic-like notes in the end alongside floral, straightforward noble hop bitterness, a subtle star aniseed note and lingering bread crumb-like maltiness. Clearly one for the great masses, very accessible and quite simplistic, but correct. Feels a bit like a throwback to the pre-Mikkeller era at 'Proef'brouwerij, now that I come to think of it, a time when many a Belgian commissioner turned to them for what eventually resulted in an impenetrable mass of unassuming, but correctly made Belgian 'Proef' ales - "a ticker's nightmare", to quote Tim Webb...

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2018 at 09:57


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

F: big, tan, good retention. C: coppery, light hazy. A: malty, caramel, biscuit, bit fruity, bit yeasty, hint of raisins. T: very malty, caramel, raisins, fruity, only light spicy what I appreciate, with this combination of malts and heavy caramel taste this is actually more amber ale than BSA but ABV is out of range, good balanced as amber ale and enjoyed, 75cl bottle from Delhaize Chazal @ Schaerbeek in Brussels.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Nov 2017 at 14:23