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Struise Tsjeeses Reserva (Porto Barrel Aged)
De Struise Brouwers
- From:
- De Struise Brouwers
- Belgium
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Strong Ale
Ranked #62 - ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #13,604 - Avg:
- 3.94 | pDev: 10.41%
- Reviews:
- 38
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 12, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 26, 2012
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 26
2011 Vintage - Red & Yellow label.
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Ratings by BeerOps:
Rated by BeerOps from Illinois
3.78/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Dec 11, 2015
3.78/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Dec 11, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
4.28/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Shared bottle at local tasting, Cloudy brown colour, large off-white head. Pleasant aroma of Belgian ale yeast, brown kandij sugar, mild spices and port wine barrel. Lovely flavour, even better than the aroma, with the same elements.
Jan 28, 2022Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.86/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.86/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Cellared bottle. Opaque brown body with a white cap. Port, grape, fig and huge raisin nice nose. Taste is still boozy but better than bourbon variant, port fits more naturally with the expressive yeast, dark fruits, and caramel, but getting no oak at all. Very monotone. Feel is still warm verging on hot, resinous and sweet. Unlike the bourbon version this one was drinkable but not something I need to have again
Sep 16, 2021Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
3.16/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.16/5 rDev -19.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
An 11.2 oz. bottle I dragged back from one of my work travels (when we did such things) that got buried in the fridge. Vintage 2013 bottle July 2014.
The pour is a very fizzy copper/rust hybrid with a nose heavy on port, honey, Christmas cookies, & a touch of oxidation. Interesting.
Struise Tsjeeses Reserva - Porto Barrel Aged is pretty tame (though perhaps wild by 2014 standards). Handful of spices up front include cinnamon, clove, white pepper & identify this as some kind of holiday brew, followed by a plumminess that might be yeast, long tail of sweetness, with a soft finishing whisper of port barrel. Soft. Certainly easy to sip.
Really just a standard holiday ale with a joyous sliver of port. Decent enough.
Nov 10, 2020The pour is a very fizzy copper/rust hybrid with a nose heavy on port, honey, Christmas cookies, & a touch of oxidation. Interesting.
Struise Tsjeeses Reserva - Porto Barrel Aged is pretty tame (though perhaps wild by 2014 standards). Handful of spices up front include cinnamon, clove, white pepper & identify this as some kind of holiday brew, followed by a plumminess that might be yeast, long tail of sweetness, with a soft finishing whisper of port barrel. Soft. Certainly easy to sip.
Really just a standard holiday ale with a joyous sliver of port. Decent enough.
Reviewed by BeanBump from California
4.12/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
happened upon one, lone bottle of this beauty at my local bottle shop and I decided to adopt it. Glad I did. It has all the yeast-forward notes that you'd expect in a Belgian beer with the added pleasantries of plum and raisins on account of the port barrel. It is pretty sweet and dessert-y but the bottle size is the perfect amount - you wouldnt need any more. I really enjoyed this beer.
Feb 11, 2020Reviewed by hoptheology from California
3.87/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
2013 vintage. Poured into Calusa Snifter.
Pours a golden color from the bottle forming a much darker, ruddier amber color in the glass with a heavy creamy head of off-white/khaki leaving minor sheets as it recedes.
Aroma is that of a Barleywine, real easy descriptor here. Some slightly stale hops but very complimentary with the rich caramel and toffee notes as well as some plum, light molasses, and light Belgian sugar. Barrel is there but although I know its port I don't think I could pinpoint exactly what it was had it not been printed on the bottle.
Flavor is much like the nose, both to its chagrin and linearity. Stale hop notes, caramel, hard toffee, slight wrinkly prune and plum, and again some barrel boozy burn but not distinct to any type.
Feel is hot and cutting, definite barrel presence here, with a hot caramel stickiness and slight resiny cling. Medium bodied, nice burn and carbonation.
Overall not quite what I'd hoped, but the $3 I paid for it is only hurting me modestly.
Dec 25, 2018Pours a golden color from the bottle forming a much darker, ruddier amber color in the glass with a heavy creamy head of off-white/khaki leaving minor sheets as it recedes.
Aroma is that of a Barleywine, real easy descriptor here. Some slightly stale hops but very complimentary with the rich caramel and toffee notes as well as some plum, light molasses, and light Belgian sugar. Barrel is there but although I know its port I don't think I could pinpoint exactly what it was had it not been printed on the bottle.
Flavor is much like the nose, both to its chagrin and linearity. Stale hop notes, caramel, hard toffee, slight wrinkly prune and plum, and again some barrel boozy burn but not distinct to any type.
Feel is hot and cutting, definite barrel presence here, with a hot caramel stickiness and slight resiny cling. Medium bodied, nice burn and carbonation.
Overall not quite what I'd hoped, but the $3 I paid for it is only hurting me modestly.
Reviewed by RochefortChris from North Carolina
3.45/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.45/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Light brown with reddish highlights in color, medium low clarity, short lived off white head that rims the beer
Aroma is raisins, prunes, dark fruit, wood, port and noticeable oxidation. Aroma from hops is all but gone
Flavor is raisins, dark fruit, port, wood and oxidation with sweet finish. Faint herbal, earthy bitterness from hops, perhaps a slight astringency on the finish, probably from the barrel aging
Medium low carbonation with medium full mouth feel and significant alcohol warmth but does not ruin the beer.
I can tell where this was a good beer at one point, and it's sill drinkable but after seven years most of the flavors have diminished and are muddled together
Jul 27, 2018Aroma is raisins, prunes, dark fruit, wood, port and noticeable oxidation. Aroma from hops is all but gone
Flavor is raisins, dark fruit, port, wood and oxidation with sweet finish. Faint herbal, earthy bitterness from hops, perhaps a slight astringency on the finish, probably from the barrel aging
Medium low carbonation with medium full mouth feel and significant alcohol warmth but does not ruin the beer.
I can tell where this was a good beer at one point, and it's sill drinkable but after seven years most of the flavors have diminished and are muddled together
Rated by WOLFGANG from South Carolina
4.25/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
2011 Vintage 4.5
2013 Vintage Rich, fruity flavors. Raisins and candied sugar.
Apr 25, 20182013 Vintage Rich, fruity flavors. Raisins and candied sugar.
Reviewed by rolltide8425 from Pennsylvania
4.05/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.05/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
2013 vintage opened on a cold, snowy 1/4/18. Main flavors I get are raisins, plums, and figs with a nice smooth mouthfeel from the barrel. An enjoyable winter brew.
Jan 04, 2018Reviewed by HopsAreDaMan from Missouri
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
11.2 oz bottle, dated 2013; I had it in a side-by-side with a 2015 .
This beer was similar to the regular Tsjeeses, but noticeably sweeter, with the port wine notes coming through. This is definitely a dessert beer, so the regular goes better with savory food.
Jan 02, 2018This beer was similar to the regular Tsjeeses, but noticeably sweeter, with the port wine notes coming through. This is definitely a dessert beer, so the regular goes better with savory food.
Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
4.22/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.22/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a ruddy maroon color. Opaque but somewhat thinner in appearance. Thick tan head dissipates quickly leaving no residual lacing or head.
Aroma has notes of tart cherries, some funky yeast and some wheat malts. Lots of port notes come through on the nose as you'd expect.
Taste has notes of wheat, grain, some earthy yeast notes and tons of tart cherries and sweet port grapes. The port barrel aging gives this more of a port flavor than any type of barrel flavors. Not getting a ton of oak, although there is some there.
Lightly carbonated with a slight fizzy sensation in the throat. Smooth thick coating feel to the beer.
Overall a really nice and very unique beer.
Dec 26, 2017Aroma has notes of tart cherries, some funky yeast and some wheat malts. Lots of port notes come through on the nose as you'd expect.
Taste has notes of wheat, grain, some earthy yeast notes and tons of tart cherries and sweet port grapes. The port barrel aging gives this more of a port flavor than any type of barrel flavors. Not getting a ton of oak, although there is some there.
Lightly carbonated with a slight fizzy sensation in the throat. Smooth thick coating feel to the beer.
Overall a really nice and very unique beer.
Reviewed by Dzu from Russian Federation
4.79/5 rDev +21.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
4.79/5 rDev +21.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
Vintage 2011.
L: brown with a weak foam head.
S: spices, caramel, plums.
T: aaah, awesomeness!!
F: incredible balanced.
O: impressive reserved beer.
Dec 22, 2017L: brown with a weak foam head.
S: spices, caramel, plums.
T: aaah, awesomeness!!
F: incredible balanced.
O: impressive reserved beer.
Struise Tsjeeses Reserva (Porto Barrel Aged) from De Struise Brouwers
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
123 ratings
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