St. Sebastiaan Golden
(has 1 batch)
Brouwerij Sterkens in Meer, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Van Den BosscheBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
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Score
6.54
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The St. Sebastiaan Golden is a golden, heavy fermented abbey beer with a distinctive fruity aroma and subtle hints of elaborately selected herbs. This St. Sebastiaan has a nice balance between sweet and bitter and has a nice full-bodied taste with a soft, malty aftertaste.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Amber beer with no head. Sweet malt and yeast aroma with candi sugar and bubblegum. Low carbonation. Fruity esters with spicey yeast and sweet malt flavors. Nothing special. Carbonation is a problem.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2006
at 21:30
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Two tier orange appearance with a very strong head. The aroma is fruity, gently spiced and citric. The flavour is strong mulled fruit and warming. Overall a nice beer but quite overpowering at times.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2006
at 06:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
(Ceramics bottle 50 cl) Comes as "St. Sebastiaan Grand Cru" brewed by Sterkens. Orangey golden with a small head - and an almost flat appearance. Very soft mouthfeel. Malty with honey flavours and a soft honey-like sweetness - never cloying though. 090298
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2005
at 15:00
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
This is known as St. Sebastiaan Grand Cru in its country of origin. Pale, drab amber colour; virtually no head, just some transparant bubbles. Quite alcoholic nose, and definitely some oxidation. Dull, lifeless sweetish taste, cookies, old sherry, oxydized. Thin body, flat as a pancake. A beer that hasn’t stood up to - what? Bad storage, transport, age ...? BBD is indecipherable. Will have to try again.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2005
at 15:35
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Stoneware bottle Ashen slightly honeyish aroma. Golden, low on visible carbonation, lacing creamy head. A bit of fruit - orangepeel (including the bitter parts), hay, peppery, slight alcohol burn. Unfortunately also a slight gunpowder and veggie note. Medium body, oily mouthfeel. Not overly impressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Dec 2004
at 14:19
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Hazy orange body with a thinnish off-white head. Aroma of curacao, coriander seed, wheat and apricots. Light-bodied; Sharp astringent taste up front with some fruity sweetness. Aftertaste shows bitterness and not much else. Overall, not strong and not pleasing. I bought this 75 cL bottle at Beers of the World in Rochester, New York and sampled it on 11-April-2004.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2004
at 17:26