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't Smisje BBBourgondier
Brouwerij Smisje
- From:
- Brouwerij Smisje
- Belgium
- Style:
- Quadrupel (Quad)
Ranked #101 - ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #13,173 - Avg:
- 3.95 | pDev: 12.15%
- Reviews:
- 104
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 07, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 12, 2003
- Wants:
- 8
- Gots:
- 12
Currently only 50 cases of this beer are available per year. Brewed in honor of the Burgundian Babble Belt.
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Ratings by thagr81us:
Reviewed by thagr81us from South Carolina
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Served from bottle into a Trappistes Rochefort chalice. Poured a slightly red-orange with a one finger off-white head that subsided to half a finger very slowly. Maintained decent lacing throughout the glass. The aroma was comprised of sweet malt, sugar, citrus, lemon rine, and dark fruit. The flavor was of sweet malt, dark fruit, alcohol, sugar, citrus, lemon rine, wheat, and bread. It had a medium feel on the palate with very high carbonation. Ovearll this was a decent brew. Based on the aroma I really wasn't expecting much from this brew. However, the flavor was quite complex and pretty good. Not sure how the citrus aspect was supposed to tie into this brew, but it didn't kill it in any way; just didn't enhance it. Worth trying for any fan of the style.
Oct 11, 2011More User Ratings:
Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
4.06/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.06/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This one pours a golden amber brown color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.
There’s lots of caramel on the nose, with some light fruitiness, a peppery and herbal spice, Fig Newtons, and some chocolate.
This has a very subtle but pleasant spiciness to it, herbal, and almost tea-like, with a barleywine-like backbone, rather than the quad that it seems be. There’s definite caramel and chocolate, and some breadiness as well.
This is medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice spicy finish.
This was unique but definitely still up my alley.
Aug 07, 2023There’s lots of caramel on the nose, with some light fruitiness, a peppery and herbal spice, Fig Newtons, and some chocolate.
This has a very subtle but pleasant spiciness to it, herbal, and almost tea-like, with a barleywine-like backbone, rather than the quad that it seems be. There’s definite caramel and chocolate, and some breadiness as well.
This is medium bodied, slightly creamy, with a nice spicy finish.
This was unique but definitely still up my alley.
Reviewed by Raisingfable from Minnesota
4.47/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.47/5 rDev +13.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
appearance
light brown color,
hazy
no residual head or lacing
very fizzy with effervescence
billowing towards the surface
like that of sparkling wine
which quiets down after a couple
minutes in the glass
smell
tart raisins
wine
slight vinegar
caramel
spiced apple cider
taste
smooth
fruity
preserved lemons
caramel
cinnamon
apple
hint of smoke
mouthfeel
light with a lively carbonation
not too sticky
with slight warmth in the back of the throat
overall
A lucid quad offering from Smisje. Scary drinkability: a lightly textured body and flirtatious carbonation keep the palate wanting more, never getting too sweet or syrupy. It almost has a little rugged malt backbone that keeps it from dipping off the palate in the long finish. One of the easiest drinking 12% abv ales I’ve ever drank.
Aug 28, 2015light brown color,
hazy
no residual head or lacing
very fizzy with effervescence
billowing towards the surface
like that of sparkling wine
which quiets down after a couple
minutes in the glass
smell
tart raisins
wine
slight vinegar
caramel
spiced apple cider
taste
smooth
fruity
preserved lemons
caramel
cinnamon
apple
hint of smoke
mouthfeel
light with a lively carbonation
not too sticky
with slight warmth in the back of the throat
overall
A lucid quad offering from Smisje. Scary drinkability: a lightly textured body and flirtatious carbonation keep the palate wanting more, never getting too sweet or syrupy. It almost has a little rugged malt backbone that keeps it from dipping off the palate in the long finish. One of the easiest drinking 12% abv ales I’ve ever drank.
Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.5/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Not a big nose – traces of fruit, caramel, malt. It pours dark caramel under a 1” light tan foam cap that dissipates fairly quick for a Belgian. The palate starts with a fruit cocktail composed of cherries, light apple and plum sweetened by light caramel malt and seasoned with light spice and herbs. It finishes with a light bitter accent. The beer is yeast driven but well composed. The beer is highly carbonated with a body just above medium.
Mar 17, 2015Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
4.49/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.49/5 rDev +13.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
It looks like a clear copper coloured brew with a small but persistent head of foam, usual good lacing from a Belgian beer.
The smell, well, it's very similar to an aged UK Old or Barley Wine. Lots of caramel malt more than hinting notes of Port. Aged Thomas Hardy or JR Lee's, anyone?
The taste just verifies what I said about the smell, to the letter.
Very nice mouthfeel with lightish carbonation to with the medium body
It drinks like a champion of an Old Ale/Barleywine. I have to get more.
Nov 05, 2014The smell, well, it's very similar to an aged UK Old or Barley Wine. Lots of caramel malt more than hinting notes of Port. Aged Thomas Hardy or JR Lee's, anyone?
The taste just verifies what I said about the smell, to the letter.
Very nice mouthfeel with lightish carbonation to with the medium body
It drinks like a champion of an Old Ale/Barleywine. I have to get more.
't Smisje BBBourgondier from Brouwerij Smisje
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
144 ratings
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