Tafelbier Bruin
Brouwerij Roman in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol Regular|
Score
5.51
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Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Tafelbier Bruin from Brouwerij Roman 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottle, few months past best before date. Dark brown color. Vague bready aroma. Watery. Sweet caramelly flavor. Not much going on, but sure does the job after a thirsty day.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Tafelbier Bruin from Brouwerij Roman 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Dark clear brown reddish colour, white foam. Strong mettalic nose, sweet caramel, brown sugar. Taste is metallic with sweet caramel notes, some dark fruit. Medium carbonation.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Tafelbier Bruin from Brouwerij Roman 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Contrary to what seems to be general practice here, I did not turn to some high profile craft beer for my 5000th rating, but to the humble Belgian table beer tradition - though in a certain sense, this is perhaps a bit more eclectic than it may seem, as this one is rarely spotted outside of its home region, as is the case with most remaining table beers apart from Piedboeuf (owned by the world’s largest brewing company) and the ones commissioned by supermarket chains. Thanks Robby for the bottle, which, as is custom with this style, has a deliberately sober label so that consumers cannot confuse it with stronger ’specialty’ beers. Medium thick, off-white, stable head leaving behind a complicated, cobweb-like pattern of lacing, over a cristal clear, mahogany brown beer with warm copper hue, fully translucent. Aroma of caramel syrup (which is probably an actual ingredient), damp cloth, very clear ’old iron’ (the ’hand test’ is very convincing here) - as in added head stabilizing agent, cola without fizz, very old dry cookies, soggy muesli, wet brown paper. Fizzy onset, almost soda-like mouthfeel, thin and highly but ’densely’ carbonated, simple dark sugar and hard caramel candy sweetness, even cola-like but not so cloying by far, becoming less sweet towards the end, turning more grainy and minerally though the caramel sweetness firmly remains; at the back, a weird kind of bitterness appears briefly but decidedly, a bit wry and reminiscent of old-fashioned sugar-replacing substances like aspartame, lingering around for a while and likely intended to balance out the sweetness. The iron in the nose is translated to a medium strong metallic aspect in the mouth. This is as traditional as Belgian brown table beer gets, sweet, thin and a bit wry in the end, with the latter aspect a bit more outspoken than is usually the case; industrial and bland of course, but this style was never intended for gastronomical purposes - instead, a table beer should remain inconspicuous enough so as not to disturb the flavor of the usually rather bland food people used to eat when it was consumed on a daily basis. Nowadays I guess elderly people still cling to it and that is why the most traditional of family brewers (including Roman) still brew a handful of examples to this day, but once that generation has gone, which will not take that long anymore, I see no future in this tradition anymore. Too bad perhaps, as this style is to be preferred over all those chemical and hyper-industrial, alcohol-free imitations of standard pale lager, if you ask me - or even to be preferred over soda for children, according to some Belgian traditionalist groups. Decent enough for what it is and glad I tasted it.
omhper (44752) reviewed Tafelbier Bruin from Brouwerij Roman 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottled. Dark ruby, small head. Light bodied with soft mouthfeel. Roasty with notes of saccharine and really sweet finish. A pretty enjoyable low alcohol beer.