Belgica Brune
Brasserie de Londres in Mons, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.37
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Frothingslosh (18912) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Reddish brown with a medium sized foamy tan head. Woody and yeasty with bread crust, cola, a hint of anise and dark fruit. Long finish. Moderately full bodied
alex_leit (19418) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle 33 cl. Dark brown, creamy foam. Aroma: sulphurous, yeast, spicy, caramel, licorice, prunes. Taste: caramel, coffee, slightly sweet, cough syrup, bread crust, expected more.
vinivini (12605) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Appearance: cloudy dark brown with a two finger tall ivory-coloured frothy head of medium retention. Aroma: dark malts, nail polish esters, bread, spicy yeast. Taste: pretty similar. Additional hop. Medium dry, light bitter. Mouth feel: medium minus body, average carbonation. Overall: pleasant brew. Underrated.
ogivlado (19146) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled 330ml. -Courtesy of hrabren, shared with him & Marko, thanks! Brown/blackish coloured, small beige head, some caramel and pet food in the nose. Sweet malty, caramel, pet food, sugary and yeasty with touch of alcohol.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
The dubbel in a string of Belgica beers, intended to once again rehash the 20th-century 'Belgian beer' brand for pure commercial reasons - the 'Brasserie de Londres' producing this is led by a "beer expert" and a "sales manager" and these beers are already available in Carrefour supermarkets - no way am I going to believe that this is brewed in their own microbrewery, if they already have one, but as usual with this kind of brands, the actual brewery is nowhere mentioned (Binchoise could be a possibility, if I would have to make a wild guess). Steinie bottle from the Carrefour hypermarket in Oostakker. Very thick, foamy, rocky, pale yellowish beige, thickly plaster-lacing, stable head on a clear, deep chestnut brown beer with ruddy-mahogany hue and tiny dots of dark, dead yeast bits throughout. Aroma of caramel candy, old brown bread dough, damp autumn leaves, old moist walnuts, old honey, wet brown cardboard, medlar, clove, dust, sugared tea, wet coriander powder, hints of banana, damp earth, old 'soepvlees', rusty iron. Fruity onset but not as sweet as expected, hinting at medlar, halfripe pear and apple peel, some vague banana ester but very restrainedly so, sourish undertone, fizzy carbonation with minerally effects; slick caramelly body, brown-bready core somewhere, nutty too with even a certain toastiness to it - but there is an unpleasant kind of bitterness lurking in the background which reminds me of bitter medicine or old aspartame. Leafy hoppy note too, connecting with the toasty aspect, though caramel sweetishness remains dominant; phenolic spicy notes of clove and old nutmeg appear too, more so than expected actually, while some dried fruitiness lingers along with the caramel and the toast. That chemical bitterish touch, however, ruined it for me, though on the other hand I have to admit that this beer feels less artificial than I was fearing; my sample probably has its heydays far behind it as well, after spending who knows how much time on a supermarket shelf (rarely the right place for beer to begin with). Less bad than feared, but still crude, unrefined, unbalanced and a bit amateurish so my apologies to the beer expert and the sales manager, still no high score from me.
Marko (21878) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
0.33l bottle courtesy of Hrabren. Brown body, floaties in my glass sadly, as I got the last one, off-white head. Initial sewer water note dissipates thankfully, leaving some citric touches. Dry maltiness, very light alcohol. Meaty yeastiness dominates the taste, even in glasses of those who didn't get the yeast bomb, some sweet maltiness as well. Clusterfuck.
Hrabren (9333) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
0.33 l bottle thanks to the people from the brewery who gave them out at the B2B Belgian beer presentation by Belgian Embassy in Zagreb. Shared with Marko and Ogi. Dark brown with a reddish tint. Plastic phenolic, slightly unpleasant, roasty, slightly burnt, graham cracker, cookie dough, some fruit. Sweetness. Stir fried vegetables in soy sauce flavour. Some sweetness. Mineral. Dry. Light body.
HenrikSoegaard (21914) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Frothy off-white good mostly lasting head. Dark red amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy and yeasty aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter fnisih. Oily palate.
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a cloudy, nutty brown with a creamy and lacing off-white head. Nose has a slight roastiness reminding me more of a Brown Ale than a Belgian Brune. Medium body, slightly sweet roastiness and licorice, a bit herbal. No Belgian yeast complexity - at all. No dark, dried fruits and complex sugars. This is a mediocre Brown Ale. Who is this brewery, and who taught them to brew?? 080421
nathanvc (6881) reviewed Belgica Brune from Brasserie de Londres 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Carrefour. Hazy brown, thin, off-white head. Aroma of red apple, pear, caramel, iron, dried tea leaves, fig, toast. Taste has sweetish apple, plum & raisin; herbal bitter middle with a metallic edge, somewhat sourish underneath, berries but perhaps some coriander too. Herbal hoppy & toasty finish, lingering dried fruit, soapy spices & a metallic 'zing' again. Soft alcohol glow. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Okay, not overly spicy nor sweet, but not really offering its own character.