Scåssenes (previously Ecaussinnes)
Commercial Brewery in Ecaussinnes, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Established in 1999
In 2020 after years of setbacks (the existing installations of the brewery turned out to be too old or too large; while co-investor Michel Simon left the firm) a new manager was appointed to put things in order. Brewmaster Jerôme, a medical biologist, keeps an eye on the fully automated brewing process.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle this beer poured a dark golden color with a large yellow head. The aroma is tangy, bready and sweet with a hint of citrus underneath. The flavor is bready and bitter with a yeasty finish. Not nearly as good as the blonde
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle this beer poured a bright golden color with lots of floaters and a huge yellow-white head that lingers. The aroma is sweet, yeasty and fruity with a bit of an underlying alcohol burn. The flavor is bitter, bready and fruity with a moderate alcohol burn. Tasty but nothing to seek out.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Horsens ølfestival. Golden/orange colour with a beige head. Aroma is spices, fruit. Flavour is spices, cellar-notes, fruit, sweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at horsens ølfestival. Dark golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, ginger. Flavour is alcohol, fruit, malt, cookie, ginger.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled at Horsens Beerfestival. Unclear, orange-golden beer with a small, beige head. Spices, caramel and sugar in the aroma. The flavor is sweet, with roasted notes, caramel and spices. Medium to full body. A quite quaffable beer. (061028)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Dark amber color with a nice head with good duration. Aroma sweet, raspberry, . Flavor sweet, rasperry and malty.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Cask handpull at Westgate JDW, Canterbury. Thanks to maeib for identifying this one. Cloudy russet colour with lasting thick beige head. Sweet raspberry aroma, like kids sweets, bit of sourness in mouth, bit medicinal. Served very cold. Really overly sweet. Like raspberry ripple ice cream on end. Not awful, but it is ovely sweet in mouth even though the aftertaste is pretty good.
saxo (29721) reviewed Ultramour from Scåssenes (previously Ecaussinnes) 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is dark amber. Aroma is sweet raspberry. Taste is sweet rasperry as well with some malt too.
Fin (18365) reviewed Ultramour from Scåssenes (previously Ecaussinnes) 19 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Cask at JDW, Penny Black, Bicester 22-10-06. I read from the Thomas Hardy thread on the Forum that this is sold as Ecaussinnes Fruit Beer. Red slightly hazy beer, taste not too disimilar to vimto though only sweeter and far worse, It would be hard to say anything positive about this beer as it really wasn’t my thing it tasted far too artificial and sweet for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a hazy gold into a tulip. Conglomerate head leaves splotchy lacing as it recedes. Bread, hay and soap aromas. Sweet honey from start to finish. Fizzy then flat. Cloying. I can feel a headache coming on...