1830 Brune Le Roi
Brasserie Scassenes
- From:
- Brasserie Scassenes
- Belgium
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- ABV:
- 10%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.53 | pDev: 6.52%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 24, 2025
- Added:
- May 20, 2025
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Complex flavors improve with time. Its high alcohol content, 10%, gives it a warm back of mouth, but it remains light and tasty. Notes of coffee and slightly woody.
Complex flavors improve with time. Its high alcohol content, 10%, gives it a warm back of mouth, but it remains light and tasty. Notes of coffee and slightly woody.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.3/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 2 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.3/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 2 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Copenhagen 19/4 2019. 33 cl bottle from Ørsted Vine, H.C Ørstedsvej, Frb. C. Print directly on the bottle giving the rudimentary info of the beer including it is apparently called Le Roi.
Pours murky dark maroon with a red hue and a small off-white head. Settles as thin patchy layer of foam unable to cover the surface of the beer. No lacing.
Aroma is sweet with sharp sour notes. Caramel, brown sugar, fermented dark fruit like plum and red grapes. Sharp rough notes of vinegar and alcohol in the background.
Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, lightly tingling texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by a medium strong sour bitterness. Aftertaste is surprisingly tart for a bruin. Lingers for a while.
A quite unforgiving Bruin. I expected sweet and boozy but got a quite sharp and unforgiving ride. A bit unbalanced on the bitter sour side but not without it's own rough charm.
Oct 24, 2025Pours murky dark maroon with a red hue and a small off-white head. Settles as thin patchy layer of foam unable to cover the surface of the beer. No lacing.
Aroma is sweet with sharp sour notes. Caramel, brown sugar, fermented dark fruit like plum and red grapes. Sharp rough notes of vinegar and alcohol in the background.
Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, lightly tingling texture.
Flavor is medium sweet followed by a medium strong sour bitterness. Aftertaste is surprisingly tart for a bruin. Lingers for a while.
A quite unforgiving Bruin. I expected sweet and boozy but got a quite sharp and unforgiving ride. A bit unbalanced on the bitter sour side but not without it's own rough charm.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.76/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.76/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
bought from The Drink Factory in Mons (also Wallonia.)
First, the styling. UnTappd call this a Biere de Garde, a soft table ale. At 10% ABV, this Le Roi is a BDSA.
Second, a mishap opening this was so over-flowing that I thought I had a bad bottle. But no, just an inexplicable opening.
Third... As a BDSA, Le Roi keeps its quickly settled foam pretty well. Smells are mostly dark fruity, but there is brewers sugar in there. Balanced about mid-palate as some hops intervene to keep this malt-bomb from detonating. Medium-mouthed; but BDSA usually are more viscous and this is more bubbly.
Fourth... My first from Scassenes, I went on their website. While only in French, my first question was about 1830. That was when the Waloonians rose up against the Dutch for Belgian independence. (OK. But what have you done for me lately?) Maybe the next time I have a beer from them, they will claim to be brewing sustainably.
May 20, 2025First, the styling. UnTappd call this a Biere de Garde, a soft table ale. At 10% ABV, this Le Roi is a BDSA.
Second, a mishap opening this was so over-flowing that I thought I had a bad bottle. But no, just an inexplicable opening.
Third... As a BDSA, Le Roi keeps its quickly settled foam pretty well. Smells are mostly dark fruity, but there is brewers sugar in there. Balanced about mid-palate as some hops intervene to keep this malt-bomb from detonating. Medium-mouthed; but BDSA usually are more viscous and this is more bubbly.
Fourth... My first from Scassenes, I went on their website. While only in French, my first question was about 1830. That was when the Waloonians rose up against the Dutch for Belgian independence. (OK. But what have you done for me lately?) Maybe the next time I have a beer from them, they will claim to be brewing sustainably.
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