BBBourgondier
Brouwerij Smisje in Mater, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.99
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A dark and heavy ale - the strongest that the brewery has ever produced - in which three varieties of malt and two spices are utilised. It is brewed "in honour of" the Burgundian Babble Belt, a well known web-site on the Internet, where beer lovers can exchange all sorts of information.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours clear amber with copper highlights and thin tan head. The aroma seems on the pungent side bringing up solid dark fruity esters like sweet Concord grape jam, figs, prunes and brown sugar coated raisins to go along with lighter notes of Belgian yeast spiciness and dark Belgian candi sugar. A big draw brings up the expected alcohol heat to the nose. The taste is very much the same beginning with smooth spices and then quickly moving into sweet ripe plums, dark grapes, prunes, over ripe cherries and raisins. It gets mildly dry into the finish with very little sense of the large ABV. Terrific stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2008
at 20:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle Pours out a hazy amber with some orange topped with a sand head. Aroma of Belg yeast and a nice clove spice. Tast of plenty malts some sweetness and more of the spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2008
at 22:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 33cl @ Home.Clear medium amber brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, hay, roasted, caramel, citrus notes, moderate yeasty, light notes of raisin, light alcohol, canned sugar notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long to average duration. Bitterness is citrus shell. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. (130708)
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2008
at 03:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A hazy dark amber ale with a thick light moka head, with fine granulate yeasts dropping at the bottom of the glass. A pleasant brown sugar, with pleasant star anis, vanilla ice cream, coriander and rum. In mouth, tingly spicy mouthfeel, with sustained coriander, pepper, and sweet perfumey malt. The 12% is not present. Bieropholie imports, no BB date.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2008
at 16:51
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy amber/murky brown with an off-white head. Aroma os spices and overripe fruits, solid yeast note, mild alcohol presence. Flavour is medium dry with a little fruity sweetness. Light spice note and a mellow yeasty note too. Sligth woody note, wineous too. Ends with a lingering fruity note and rather dry. 12 % ABV can hardly be sensed, enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2008
at 14:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Hazy brown with tiny head. Sweet malty aroma with spicy and fruity notes. Flavor is sweet with roasted malt, ripe fruits and yeast. Good balance with alcohol well hidden. Warming alcohol in the end.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2008
at 16:38
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This one tried to crawl out of the bottle. Rich warm dark fruit aroma (wine frig temperature). Hazy reddish amber color with a fragile off-white head. Near medium body with creamy carbonation. Heat is noticeable. Very malty in a lightly roasted way, and the dark fruits, sort of plummy, are ever present. The finish is moderately dry, and there seems to be some bitter. Strong points are the aroma and interesting, slightly woody, finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Nov 2007
at 20:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
An odd but well made and interesting beer. First, the very high abv is expertly hidden. It cannot be smelled or tasted, which is a sign of the quality. Unusual aroma, rotting cheese, mold, and yeast. Malt and light fruit are secondary. Thick, brown, cloudy beer. Considerable sediment. Lots of flavors here, raisins and sweet malt, but also wildflowers and prairie grass, yeast, some wild yeast. Not quite sweet and not quite dry. Great palate, and whether one likes the flavor or not, superb craftsmanship.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Sep 2007
at 13:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Man, this one is big. Bottle of unknown age, it was a little dusty on the shelf, with a faded label, along with another dozen of its kind. I figured 12% ought to hold up. Nothing major regarding age, perhaps a hint of paperiness in the nose and finish. Begins with a huge fruity plummy raisiny nose, with a background of molasses. Tons of chewy raisiny special B like fruitiness in the flavor, with a big heavy rounded sweet finish all the way through. Does a pretty fair job of balancing all that alcohol. Heavily yeasted, as a cloudy reddish brown color, medium head. This is a big belgian in all respects.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2007
at 21:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Københavnske øldage 07. Dark golden /brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is dried fruit, spices, roastiness. Flavour is hop, cellar notes, dried fruits, spices, roastiness. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2007
at 23:59