La Cuvée Nico
Brasserie du Brabant in Genappe - Baisy-Thy, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
6.81
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Kraddel (15810) reviewed La Cuvée Nico from Brasserie du Brabant 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, thnx to Fred ! Pours clear blonde, with a bit of an amber glow. Good white head, which is rather stable as well ( still, after what, 13 years ? ) Smell is heavy, thick, sweet, bit madeira. Taste is sweet, madeira, oxidation, some malty notes are left, very hidden under the previously named aspects. it has a very, very mild bitter touch left towards the back. Underneath it all, it also has some complexity and depth left, from what I imagine must have been a very good malt-selection. At this point, it will surely devide people. Many might say it’s over the top, because it is very oxidized. Some others - like myself - like this type of aged beers every once in a while. I think it held up great, for a non-sour blonde beer at this age. The carbonation feels perfect, as well as the body, where usually , after 10 or more years, carbonation starts to fade, and the body starts to decline. So yeah, at this specific point in time, this particular bottle was a well-tasting treat to me :) thnx Fred !
Alengrin (11561) reviewed La Cuvée Nico from Brasserie du Brabant 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Occasional beer named after the brewer’s son I think, tasted at one of the Leuvense Biertherapeuten’s beer festivals many years ago, before this brewery ceased activities and then, recently, restarted them. From old notes: snow white, stable, creamy head leaving pretty lacing, hazy yellow blonde colour. Sweetish, apple, citrussy, rounded palate with sourish touch, spicy yeastiness and dry spicy and hoppy, long finish. Quite enjoyable, though I liked La Brabançonne Ambrée more, not counting the new generation Brabant beers, of course.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed La Cuvée Nico from Brasserie du Brabant 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Yellow-gold, slight (cold) haze; lemon-yellow tinted white head, good carbonation. Vanilla, citrus and alcohol in the nose, smells strong & dry. Bone-dry beer, traces of white candi sugar, citrus. Bitterish citruspeel retronasal. After a certain time and some warming up, at last some restsugars, blending with the alcohol. Enormous dry-out effect, not light bodied by any standard despite high attenuation. Alcohol obvious. Not terribly super-strong, but giving the impression of. remarkably more run-of-the-mill beer than the other two tasted - but technically irreproachable.