Swaf Brune / Bruine
Brasserie de l'Abbaye du Val-Dieu in Aubel, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Herbal Regular|
Score
6.12
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Orange brown color. Mint and orange in the aroma. Mint, yeast and orange in the flavor. Not too sweet. Just a bit alcoholic. Touch of chocolate. Spicy aftertaste. Not bad.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Où, Quand, Comment : Bouteille 3330ml, dégustée au Saint-Bock à Montréal (été 2007).
Visuel : Couleur : brune. Apparence : voilée.
Arôme : Sucre brun, caramel sucré, léger malt rôti, levures fruitées (prunes, notes de raisins) et épicées.
Goût : Entrée de bouche : Levures fruitées (prunes, léger de raisins) et légèrement épicées. Une dominante maltée de caramel doux, de sucre brun est présente avec un léger goût de pain grillé ainsi que des notes de houblon herbeux et d’alcool.
En bouche : Corps : moyen. Effervescence : moyenne-élevée. Texture : légèrement crémeuse. Finale : moyenne et un peu sèche, légèrement amère de rôti et d’alcool avec des notes de houblon herbeux.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
330mL bottle from tiggmtl, between one and two years old, drunk on 9/14/07
Medium chestnut-mahogany brown beer with a large beige head that fades slowly to cover, leaving light lacing. Medium-high clarity.
Gingerbread and light caramel are strong in the nose, with toasty malt dryness strong on the end. Muted phenols and light chocolate clash amidst too much alcohol warmth on the finish. Just too phenolic or spicy/peppery and lacking in any real malt depth or interesting yeast character. Medium strength of aroma.
Sweet caramel and light chocolate, with minor bready notes building on the palate, as peppery/spicy notes compound this, adding light astringency after the simple malt sugars have fully passed. Not particularly tight carbonation, despite the bottle conditioning. Some wateriness, light alcohol warmth. Just no real cohesion; too sweet up front, too phenolic/spicy on the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A dark brown ale with a thick froathy light moka head, and small floaties. Light caramel malt aroma, no spices, maybe a light coriander aroma. In mouth, a decent belgian dubbel, with good burned caramel, some coriander, bitter chocolate, stewed fruits and the light ginger notes found in the 2 other Swafs. This is my favorite of the 3. Bieropholie private imports. BB 07-07-07.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Red highlights in dark amber-brown beer. Creamy yellow-brown head, leaving lace. Spicey nose, wood, green-dark leaves, undergrowth, nearly earthy, bit of ginger (or is this ginseng?). Meaty, estery taste, and a little bit of oxydized malts. Finish is again spicey, peppery. Medium bodied, quite some alcohol there, but very much hidden. Nowhere bad, just not very original. Somehow, I would think Vervifontaine might have made more out of this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottled. Dark amber coloured, beigeish brown head. Strong aroma and flavour of toothpaste (anise, fluor etc). Also some hints of soap and licorace. Strange sweetness present all the time (most likely from the ginseng).
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled
Beautiful, very dark ruby colour, big foamy and cloudy brown head, some lace. Aroma of anise, beauty soap and licorice. Strange herbal flavor with licore and spicey hoppy bitterness. Gives a bitter, spicey aftertaste, maybe it is from ginseng. Real on-off beer.