Marks & Spencer Belgian Bruin Beer
Brasserie Du Bocq
- From:
- Brasserie Du Bocq
- Belgium
- Style:
- Belgian Dark Ale
- ABV:
- 6.5%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.6 | pDev: 14.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 29, 2013
- Added:
- Jan 07, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by fullsweep from England
4.55/5 rDev +26.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.55/5 rDev +26.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
330 mL brown transparent bottle, poured into a pint glass tumbler.
A: clear brown ale--dark but very transparent; pours with a thick, foamy head that dissipates in a few minutes but leaves some nice, rich lacing.
S: fruity, rich, alcoholic, almost other-worldly but with a bitter punch after the fruity sweet scent fades.
T: very complex stuff here: some rich brown sugar, some bits of fruit (can't exactly place what though--maybe ripe plums?) but also some herbal/spice flavourings, all with a certain bite that is hard to describe. At 6.5, you'd think there'd be a stronger presence of alcohol, but this is all flavour!
M: mostly smooth, a bit of carbonation, but with a nice rich, smooth mouthfeel that goes down nicely!
O: this beer is dangerously drinkable! Beware.
Jan 31, 2013A: clear brown ale--dark but very transparent; pours with a thick, foamy head that dissipates in a few minutes but leaves some nice, rich lacing.
S: fruity, rich, alcoholic, almost other-worldly but with a bitter punch after the fruity sweet scent fades.
T: very complex stuff here: some rich brown sugar, some bits of fruit (can't exactly place what though--maybe ripe plums?) but also some herbal/spice flavourings, all with a certain bite that is hard to describe. At 6.5, you'd think there'd be a stronger presence of alcohol, but this is all flavour!
M: mostly smooth, a bit of carbonation, but with a nice rich, smooth mouthfeel that goes down nicely!
O: this beer is dangerously drinkable! Beware.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.68/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.68/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Purchased before X’mas 2012 at the Marks & Spencer supermarket, it comes in a short 330ml brown bottle, BB 04/2014, served lightly chilled in Gulden Draak’s tulip-shaped short-stemmed sniffer.
A: coming in a fairly dark brown colour, topped with a thick tan head to last, on top of a fairly healthy feed of microscopic fizziness.
S: dark sugary, hoppy, bitter-grapefruity, mixed spicy (coriander seeds and liquorice are among them) as well as richly fruit estery, as lactose drink leaves a vivid imprint on every sniff; a sniff would bring up a bit more perfumy malts with a touch of cocoa, but not heavy at all.
T: effervescent at first (the fizziness does soften as it goes), lightly spicy & sour-sweet (like a lactose drink) goes the foretaste, then the palate is surrounded by a medium level of herbal bitterness featuring liquorice (for real), brown malts, spicy/sprigy bitterness, and leather-ish & black-sugary notes in the aftertaste. Moderately and pleasantly chewy is the end note, while the bitter herb notes also serve to lengthen the otherwise semi-simplistic finish.
M&D: medium-bodied, moderately-flavoured and smoothly-carbonated dark ale benefiting from the level of dry-ish spicy/herbal-ness all in all. This ale is quite quaffable, in fact, due to the fact that the sweetness doesn’t come too assertively and thus allowing the herbal-yeasty elements to lead the palate. Decent.
Jan 07, 2013A: coming in a fairly dark brown colour, topped with a thick tan head to last, on top of a fairly healthy feed of microscopic fizziness.
S: dark sugary, hoppy, bitter-grapefruity, mixed spicy (coriander seeds and liquorice are among them) as well as richly fruit estery, as lactose drink leaves a vivid imprint on every sniff; a sniff would bring up a bit more perfumy malts with a touch of cocoa, but not heavy at all.
T: effervescent at first (the fizziness does soften as it goes), lightly spicy & sour-sweet (like a lactose drink) goes the foretaste, then the palate is surrounded by a medium level of herbal bitterness featuring liquorice (for real), brown malts, spicy/sprigy bitterness, and leather-ish & black-sugary notes in the aftertaste. Moderately and pleasantly chewy is the end note, while the bitter herb notes also serve to lengthen the otherwise semi-simplistic finish.
M&D: medium-bodied, moderately-flavoured and smoothly-carbonated dark ale benefiting from the level of dry-ish spicy/herbal-ness all in all. This ale is quite quaffable, in fact, due to the fact that the sweetness doesn’t come too assertively and thus allowing the herbal-yeasty elements to lead the palate. Decent.
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