Grand Cru
Green Flash Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.28
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Our Belgian Style Dark Ale is inspired by traditional Abbey Ales to deliver the richest of malt flavors but with a slightly elevated hopping and increased complexity given from two different yeast strains. This malt laden ale is designed to satiate and keep your taste buds dancing.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Poured a purplish brown. Settled quickly without a ton of head. Aroma is plums and dark fruits, taste is like that with some malts although not a ton. Not too many hops but well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 00:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tap. Soda brown in color with a decent head. Taste is caramel, spicy, good malt with some hoppy after taste. Aroma Is candy corn with malty under tones.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Mar 2025
at 04:40
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pours out brown topped with a sand head. Nose is nice big sweet belg candy notes pit fruit spice and toffee. Tatse is more of the nice sweet malts pit fruit and spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2018
at 22:13
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Backlog. Shared bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 06.05.13. Dark brown. Sweet aroma of prunes, tobacco box and port. Well-balanced taste with dark malt and hops. Coffee and bitter hops in aftertaste. Appropriate mouthfeel, Quaffable!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2015
at 14:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Pours deep brown, nose is smoky, chocolate, dark fruit, taste is dry, roasted, rich toffee, sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2014
at 11:26
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draft at Faucets in Tokyo. Deep maroon color, beige head. Aroma of nutty caramel. Taste is sweet and sour nuts. Odd.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Aug 2014
at 10:32
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draft @ Sunset Grill & Tap. Dark brown thick yeasty pour, lasting head. Aromas of dark fruits, candi sugar, pumpernickel bread, and lots of yeast earthiness. Deep layers of yeast and earth.
Flavor is a mirror of the aroma with a spicy element that reminds me of a Christmas based dark ale. Almost like a nutmeg, cloves and licorice. The two separate yeast strain helps to give a layer of complexity. Body is on the full side with a chewy yeasty texture. The alcohol is covered nice with all the layers of yeast, spice and malts. Still a light burn after the sip, this was a nice finish to my 5 hour long session at Sunset Grill & Tap.
Flavor is a mirror of the aroma with a spicy element that reminds me of a Christmas based dark ale. Almost like a nutmeg, cloves and licorice. The two separate yeast strain helps to give a layer of complexity. Body is on the full side with a chewy yeasty texture. The alcohol is covered nice with all the layers of yeast, spice and malts. Still a light burn after the sip, this was a nice finish to my 5 hour long session at Sunset Grill & Tap.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2014
at 15:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein sehr dunkel rötliches Bierr mit schöner Schaumkrone. Geruch hefig, Gewürze, röstmalzig. Geschmack süß röstmalzig, hefig fruchtig, erinnert schon fast an ein Weizenbock.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2014
at 13:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Brown colour, some beige foam. Medium body, medium carbonation. Aroma of caramel, brown sugar and hops. Balance between sweet and bitter. Good but nothing special.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2014
at 04:24
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a dark amber ruby color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy caramel with weak hints of dark fruit. Slightly sweetish malty spicy caramel bitter flavor with weak trash hints. Had a sweetish malty spicy bitter caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2014
at 10:51