vinivini (12734) reviewed Bruin from Brouwerij De Poes 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 4
Cloudy deep brown with a small ivory-coloured head of low retention. Toasted malt, Dried fruit. dark bread. Phenolic infection. Medium dry. Light sour. Infected.
YantarCoast (5270) reviewed Bruin from Brouwerij De Poes 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle from Beru Vykhodnoi in Moscow. Pours opaque dark brown to black with a small beige head. Aroma is dried fruit, yeast, banana. Taste is light sweet and faintly sour. Light bitter finish medium bodied. It’s in date but already something is going wrong here. I guess they didn’t discount it for no reason.
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Blond from Brouwerij De Poes 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
330ml bottle. Cloudy, orange golden colour with average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, white head. Yeasty fruity aroma, minimally biscuity, pale malty background, notes of yellow stone fruit. Taste is minimally biscuity, pale malty, yeasty fruity and mildly bitter hoppy, hints of yellow stone fruit, mirabelle; additionally a peppery yeasty spicy touch in the finish.
Creamy texture, smooth and soft palate, fine, soft carbonation.
Simple and a tad monotonous - OK.
thanatosti (4472) reviewed Stowt from Brouwerij De Poes 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
33 cl. bottle @ home, bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg.
Black with a big beige head. Dark malt aroma with caramel and chocolate. Sweet taste with a long lasting sweet finish. Bit overcarbonated but still great.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Steinbier from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
New beer by De Poes in Tielt and it is something worth investigating: Belgium's very first 'Steinbier', brewed with three different grains to a 17th-century recipe - apparently in that era, heating the wort by plunging red-hot rocks in it was more widespread than I thought, because in more recent times, 'Steinbier' (the German term gives it away) is more associated with Central Europe: the technique as such survived in Carinthia until the early 20th century and was famously revided by Leikeim in Bavaria in 2007. Several more have emerged since then, I even remember an American strong ale by The Bruery having undergone this treatment, but it never quite caught on even in craft beer times, I guess because it involves a lot of hassle especially in relation to the fairly limited flavour effects it has. In any case this 'Steinbier' should be seen as a method applicable to practically any beer style rather than as an actual beer style (comparable with a term like 'Eisbock') and in this case, De Poes simply applied it to a blonde ale of Belgian signature. Medium sized, egg-white, dense and tiny-bubbled, almost creamy, plastery-lacing, slowly breaking but generally very stable head on a misty peach blonde robe with metallic-orangey glow and disparate, fine sparkling. Aroma of halfripe banana, apple peel, cooked turnip, potato juice, sandwiches, a touch of caramel but not necessarily from the rocks, unsugared chewing gum, clove, white peach, thyme, chervil and hints of freshly struck matches and asphalt which must be the rocks. Sweetish, fruity onset, hints of halfripe peach, banana, pear and red apple peel, moderately carbonated with slight minerally effect - making it hard to determine whether there is also a minerally effect from the rocks. Supple, slick mouthfeel, bubblegummy esters and some residual sugars moving on top of a rounded-cereally pale maltiness with a thin caramelly edge - but again it remains difficult to pinpoint whether this caramelliness has anything to do with the rocks or not. Herbal and slightly leafy hop bitterness in the tail - again with a trace of lingering minerality, and again it remains nearly impossible to pick that out as an effect of the hot rocks. There is something vaguely 'caramelised' in the general taste that lingers a bit after swallowing and which I think is lacking in similar De Poes beers; I believe this is the most clear effect of this Steinbier treatment, but it too remains subtle and vague, too much so to make this creation stand out as something entirely new in Belgium purely flavour-wise. It got a bronze medal at the last edition of the Brussels Beer Challenge, but do not get distracted by that: just expect a rather 'ordinary', if technically well-executed, typical Belgian strong(ish) blonde.
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Stowt from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Cremiger, etwas trockener Malzbeginn mit deutlich erkennbarem Hopfen im Hintergrund. Würzig, angenehme Herbe, sehr süffig. Hafer, röstig, der Hopfen lässt mit der leichten Süße die Trockenheit verschwinden. Cremig, langer Nachhall, lecker! 10/12/11/12/9/12
Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Oud Bruin from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Cremiger, süß-säuerlicher Kirschbeginn. Erhöhte Karbonisierung, leicht holzig, Karamell, moderate Herbe. Spritzig, kernig, sehr süffig, nett! 8/10/9/9/8/9
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Oud Bruin from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A clear deep amber beer with a beige lacing. Aroma of tart lactic cherries. Taste of sour red grapes, apples, cherries, vineous finish.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Stowt from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A black beer with a tan head. Aroma of mild roasted dark malt, chocolate, some mint. Taste of roasted dark malt, chocolate, coffee. Creamy mouthfeel.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Stowt from Brouwerij De Poes 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Zwart bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is bitterzoet met iets van rozijnen, pruimen, chocolade en wat geroosterd brood. Nice!