Petrus Oud Bruin / Petrus Old Brown Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Pours out a clear very dark brown with zero head. The aroma is of sweet hops and fruit. The mouthfeel is thin and sour. The taste is like liquid Sweet Tarts it's very sour and not something from Belgium even though that's what the label reads.And if it is "Say It Ain't So Joe " !

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Dark brown with light brown foam head, lacing and lasting. Aroma is sour sweet, some wood notes. Taste is nice sweet OUD BRUIN as my mother always preferred. Nice aftertaste. (Rotterdam 201309)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

11.2 oz bottle. Pours ruby amber with a big fizzy light tan head that goes to a thin film that leaves some lacing.

The aroma is subdued - some acidic fruity sourness and some funk. As it warms it's more sweet woody cherries.

The flavor is sweet acidic malts with tart fruits and some light sourness and funk. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with some sharp carbonation.

Overall, an OK mild acidic sour that is more sweet than sour. Probably a good beginner sour.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

This beer poured a deep ruby red/ brown body with a thin cap that surprisingly leaves some decent laceing.The aroma is absolute pure sour/sweet. Light vinegar bitterness up front but a mellower fruit quality hidden in the background.This was a wonderful sour ale as the taste goes. Bitter/tart flavor up front but some hidden fruit in the finish. An easy drinking sour beer, flavorful, and not overwhelming in any way.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

C: murky brown, tan head
A: yeast, sour malt, spices
P: medium
F: sour malt, wood, earth
O: a great sour, truly a hallmark of the style

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I picked this beer up from the Wine Gourmet in Roanoke, VA. Another very solid beer out of Flanders. This beer was good but for the style - funky and tart. Very nice.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Nice mild sour brown, not a face squeezer at all. Nice balance, the sourness is just enough to perk the tastebuds. Nice clear brown color, easy drinking and well aged beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

It's a cloudy brown- black beer with a creamy foam and good retention. it smells smoky straw, honey and sweet. In mouth the aroma is sourish dark fruits, a lot of fruits. it quite lager.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

330 ml capped bottle. Poured in the original Petrus tulip pokal a slight hazy oak-burgundy coloured Bruin with a one finger tan foamy head that had a long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Soft carbonation. Some lacing. The aroma is sourish dark fruits, berries, cherries, caramel malts, yeast. The flavour is mild sourish fruits, cherries, apples, moderate malty, notes of wood. The mouthfeel is crispy, sparkling, a bit thin and ... watery. This light to medium bodied Bruin has a long sourish fruity finish. This Oud Bruin lacks, for me, of character.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

About what I was anticipating....passed by this curious offering for the past 6 months and finally I gave into curiosity. Nice body, fizzy diminishing head. Aroma is fruity berries and a touch of vinegar. Quenching and lighter in body, fairly spritzy feeling. Flavor is lackluster, dull malt with a touch of wine and faint vinegar.