Tourist #12: Speciale Belge
Spéciale Belge Brewers in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.85
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Hops: Saaz, Barbe Rouge
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a surprisingly dark hazed brown-over-amber. Medium sized white head. Scent is bready, crisp maltyness, milder on the caramel, not much yeast and very little hops. More like a dunkel than a Special Belge to me. Taste is surprisingly bitter, mild caramel, way more expressed on the bready side and crispyness, almost lager like (enhancing the dunkel feel) even though it's a high fermentation beer. Very decent, but i'm a bit confused by the style meaning VS brewed result.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught Very good cream-beige head over reddish brown beer. Very malt, fresh green beer still in fermentation; hint of wood and even lactic; half-dried grapes. Quite malty, dark malts, bready, bit of chocolate, and again wood, traces of caramel. Medium bodied, bit slick, the finish is a bit light. Good beer. It is however 2-3 scales too dark for a Speciale Belge.