Bière Du Boucanier Golden
Brouwerij Van Steenberge N.V.

Pours a nice golden color with a generous head and lacing.
Aroma has pleasant citrus and spice hints
Taste had a well balanced citrus and spice flavor
A medium bodied well carbonated beer
A well balanced Belgian Pale Strong Ale

 

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Pours a clear amber with a thick cap of off white head.

Smell is yeasty and spicy with notes of apple, raisins and dried fruit.

Taste is boozy and yeasty with notes of apples, spices, dried fruit with a solid bitterness. Gets less boozy and more fruity with warmth. Well alanced and pretty complex.

Mouthfeel is medium and smooth, well carbonated.

Overall, a really nice Belgian that improves with warmth.

 

Another solid beer from this particular brewery.
Similar yeast and related characteristics as bornem and gulden draak- lovely.
Poured from 33 cL bottle to a tulip. Bright gold with copious white head and soapy effervescence. Tons of lacing and foam that endures- smells of biscuit, tropical esters. Taste is very sweet malts forward, citrus and pineapple notes- toasted malty goodness- transitions to a a floral hoppy note and clean finish. Mouths feels medium with copious carbonation - astringency balances the sweetness.
Overall- great gold ale with well hidden abv- great accompaniment to a greasy meal- burger, fries, strong cheese.

 

Good BSPA!!! One of the last 3 beers I picked up in Vienna on a river cruise in Europe. Poured from a stubby 330ml bottle into my Chimay goblet. Big, highly carbonated white head with average to better than average retention. Lacing is pretty much little spots scattered around the glass. Aroma and taste include plenty of Belgian yeast, some mild citrus presence and candi sugar balanced by what I think is wheat bitterness (as opposed to hoppiness). There is some spicing (coriander) too. Mouthfeel is rich with almost no evidence of 11% abv. It is smooth and goes down easy. I would like to find more of this.

 

 

 

 

I had this in a Global Beer sampler two years ago, but have not found it since... but will hunt it down, along with my notes.
I wonder why the new importer doesn't change-up the sampler's offering. Is consumer attrition setting in for Belgians?

Until I find Boucanier Gold again, let me comment on Van Steenberge's success in its sixth generation as a family brewer. The hits keep coming. They won 12 awards this past year. Plus their gastropub remains one of the most popular (and hard to visit). And their brewing innovation never seems to sleep. While its greatest brand success seems to revolve around Gulden Draak, I do wish their other brands/lines had better distribution.

 

 

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