Petrus Bordeaux
Brouwerij De Brabandere in Bavikhove, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
6.79
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Gerbeer (8166) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
330 ml bottles. Pours a reddish brown with full head. Aromas of vinous wood, oak, plums, tart red berries, a bit of vinegar and sharp toasty malts. Flavors of dusty red wine barrel, slightly tart earthy berries, plums and toasted malts. Not getting much of the Old Bruin from this iteration but interesting.
ianwelby (4640) ticked Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 8 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from a local bottle shop. Aroma is sweet and tart red fruits with oak and malt. Touch of red wine. Flavour is more sweet than sour, body is medium. Severely lacking in sourness.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
New addition to Bavik's Petrus brand, which started off in 1982 with Petrus Oud Bruin, the brewery's answer to the success of Rodenbach at the time; nowadays Petrus Oud Bruin is renamed Petrus Roodbruin apparently, at least according to this site, but the present-day version is made by blending one third of Petrus Aged Pale (sour ale) with two thirds of young 'brown' beer (dubbel), whereas this new BDX version is also described as a blend of sour ale with dubbel - I guess both are the same components as in Roodbruin, so I still do not know what the actual difference between the classic Roodbruin and this new BDX is - perhaps a different ratio of the two? Anyway: very thick and foamy, pale yellowish beige, dense and pillowy, membrane-lacing, firm and lasting head on a clear dark chestnut brown beer with indeed burgundy hue. Aroma of passionfruit jam, ripe blue plum, caramel candy or toffee, candi sugar and quite a lot of it, cola even, sugared fruit yoghurt, dusty hint, vague damp straw, raisins, candied cherries, chewing gum. Spritzy onset, lively carbonation piercing through sweet fruitiness with a cleanly edged profile (blue plum, passionfruit, banana, pear) and adding minerally 'stings', while the sourness, in a dull, soft, yoghurty way runs underneath, but is seemingly deliberately suppressed by an overdose of added dark sugariness, which annoyingly sticks to the teeth. A slick caramelly malt core with faint brown-bready edges remains a bit hidden under this added sweetness, which in the end becomes a bit Coca-Cola Zero-like; the sourness is in that sense more reminiscent of ascorbic acid (as in cola) than of actual lactic 'bacterial' sourness painstakingly achieved by prolonged barreling. Fruitiness lingers in a very clean way, dramatically lacking in the 'wild' esters a normal 'oud bruin' should have; some softly bittering hoppiness is noticeably underneath. Wood remains only conceptually present - this whole beer finishes off clean, sleek, ridiculously sugary, filtered and pasteurized. I can understand that if Bavik (or De Brabandere as they are officially called now) wants to survive as an independent brewery, they need to come up with products aimed at the masses, but this is just silly: the 'oud bruin' features are completely reduced to a basic, straightforward, almost childishly lemonade-like sourishness, while everything else is just cola-like sweetness, filtered and pasteurized to add insult to injury, and with a very meagre malt profile for some reason. Largely filled with added sugars, this is very far removed from a credible and traditional southern Flemish oud bruin (or red ale or whatever you want to call it) - even more so than I was fearing. If you want a simple and sugared oud bruin, seek Verhaeghe's Duchesse or even Bavaria-owned Rodenbach instead, because this I sadly cannot recommend. I hope young people getting acquainted with this do not get the impression that this is what oud bruin is supposed to taste like! Shame on you, De Brabandere.
Sigmund (14545) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 5.5%. Deep reddish brown colour, huge off-white to beige head. Aroma of red wine, red berries, red wine vinegar and oak. Sweet and moderately sour flavour, notes of cheap red wine and oak, hints of caramel, minimal bitterness.
Doc (2705) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
oh.. its sour style. Lets see... Smell- weak, malt, caramel, faint candy. Foam-thin, cherry, malt. Head is large, light brown in color. Sticks. Appearance- brewer bottle cap, simple label. Dark ruby brown in color. From - pint Taste - malt, cherry, sweetness, caramel, faint acidic tones. Did not expect this, not bad, simple drinkable and not as sour as I expected, but actually sweet, and pleasant.
nimbleprop (16618) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Sampled at Max's Belgian Fest 2024. Pours a murky brown with some white head. Nose is candy, raisin, date, malt. Flavor is the same. Sweet finish. Needs more complexity. Just way too simple.
cuso (17097) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
BBT 01/2024. Dark red brown color with beige head. Aroma of cherries, malt, light caramel, funk. Taste is pleasantly sour with cherries, vanilla, funk.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Petrus Bordeaux from Brouwerij De Brabandere 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ BBT 01/2024 F: tan, medium, good retention. C: dark brown, clear. A: malty, vinous, light sour fruity, chocolate. T: medium malty base, light sour fruity, cherries, berries, bit chocolate, decent bitterness, medium carbonation, ok for the style, enjoyed yet nothing memorable.