Alvehaarn Bruin
Brouwerij Van Steenberge in Ertvelde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Dubbel Special|
Score
6.69
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tderoeck (22946) reviewed Alvehaarn Bruin from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
22/VII/24 - 33cl bottle as a gift, shared @ BBQ at Cybu’s, BB: 17/IX/24 (2024-573) Thanks to tante Maaike for the bottle!
Clear red brown beer, big creamy beige head, a little stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very malty start, soft roast, a hint of chocolate, grains, some banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet malty start, some banana, sugary, a little bitter, gentle roast, caramel touch. Aftertaste: a bit sourish, sugary, caramel, ripe banana.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Alvehaarn Bruin from Brouwerij Van Steenberge 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Dubbel made by Van Steenberge for the Plus supermarket chain in the Netherlands (mine coming from the Plus in Breskens); knowing Van Steenberge’s ways, this is very likely, if not certainly, an alias of something – Leute Bok being the first suspect – but since I have no hard proof, I decided to enter it here anyway. Thick and moussy, cobweb-lacing, pale yellowish beige, slowly diminishing head; initially clear, copper-brown robe with amber glow and visible sparkling, turning misty with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel, walnut husks, iron, nutmeg, dry tree leaves in autumn, dried apple peel, bitter black tea, brown bread crust, wet toast. Restrainedly fruity, cleanish onset, some apple peel and dried fig but low in sweetness, minerally carb, smooth mouthfeel with lightly metallic edges (so ‘ironed’ after all), with a hard-caramelly and peanutty malt core, mildly bittered by a toasty edge on the one hand and a herbally hoppy tail on the other hand, bringing some light spicy phenols (clove, nutmeg). Bittersweet but thin and simple malts linger, and so does this metallic ‘zing’. Feels overly clean, shallow and industrial, a very one-dimensional ‘bruin’ for the masses – almost as if wanting to compete with its Leffe, Grimbergen and Affligem congeners (though not nearly as bad, of course)…