Breughel Grand Cru

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

So very foamy, so much explosive power, I had to give the bottle head for 5 min before it stopped bursting its foamy white goodness into my mouth. Cloudy yellow brown body with a massive fluffy white cap on top. Sweet sour yeast aroma lots of tangy sour apple and hints of bread. Taste is all granny smith apple with bread, so very sour. Can’t taste any of the 11% this could get dangerous. So much sour apple brew seems to simple there must be more to it. So very dry. Yeast, bread, and apple not that complex to bad was hopping for better.

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

Bottle: Poured a clear copper color ale with an off-white head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma consists of nice peachy fruity ester with light alcoholic phenols. Taste is a mix between some quite enjoyable fruity ester and some medium sweet malt. Body is a bit thin with some average carbonation and light alcoholic notes thought I have a hard time believing this beer to be 11% ABV. By no mean is this a great beer or something that I will buy again but by far not the worst from this brewery.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Because Pootz got a volcanic experience with this brew, I decided not to turn the bottle over to mix the sediments at the bottom of it. The brew was then clean at first, with an orange-caramel colour and lots of carbonation. Feeeew, no eruption here ! The head was big, creamy, off-white, had decent retention, but hardly any lace. The nose is quite sweet and fruity, with white grapes and apples. Thin-bodied with no burn at all... where is the alcohol ? Some spices come out in the taste, but yet still very smooth. The fruits are also present, apples with some light pear. Ingredients listed on the label are spring water, barley malt, coriander, organic cane sugar, high-fermented yeast and hops. When pouring the last drops from the bottle, the brew becomes way cloudy. Holds its name true, as this is probably the best brew from Breughel brewery.

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

I understand I’m not the only one who experienced a "beer geyser" when I cracked this brew. Seems to be the result of the beer still working in the bottle. Fortunately mine only foamed out the top 1/4 of the bottle...what I got into the glass ( after the 4 inch speckeld cap reduced to a small cap) was a clouded orange-tea colored ale with massive aroma which scented the room with sweet banana-pinapple smells, some clove and a whiff of alcohol. Peppery up front from the ample natural effervescence...a tad thin in body....when this drops away we get sweet curacao and nuts over some musty-earthy notes then a relatively dry-spritzy finish...perhaps cellaring would tame this "volcano" and develop more flavors...as it is relatively young, this is a tastey ale but very sparkling and 2 dimentional. I’d like to try this aged a year or two.