So far, the best beer I’ve tasted, it is so very different from what I think of as beer.
The aroma is very fruity, sort of like walking through a fruit market. Reminds me a bit of visiting the massive cellars on the fruit farm operated by my great-aunt and uncle. It’s exceedingly irresistible.
So, there’s a bit of a pattern to my BeerQuest posts. All of the beers taste like… beer. Sometimes they’re bitter, sometimes they’re sweet. I’ll admit, up to this point, I simply take a picture and drink the beer. I think about the first few sips, maybe the aftertaste. I get back to my laptop and write what I remember. Bitter. A bit sweet. Finished the glass without choking.
Brewed in Haacht, a very short distance from Leuven, this pale beer starts a bit bitter for my taste. After a few sips, it becomes very easy to drink. The head has fine bubbles, which disappear quickly.
Wow, so this was a strong beer! Strong because it’s 9%, although the taste is quite manageable. It’s a bit bitter, but still very sip-able. I understand how the culture here would evolve. People in Belgium don’t slam back beer – they drink it slowly. And, to add to the warm fuzzies induced by drinking […]
Failed.
I’m so sad about this… the flagship beer of InBev was a huge disappointment. At least for me, it was too sour and difficult to drink. To put it into perspective, I’d had a few sangrias already, so my taste buds would have been impaired.