Bruegel Amber Ale - Brouwerij Van Steenberge, Ertvelde
Style:
Belgian Amber
Serving Type:
Bottle
Alcohol by Volume:
5.2%
Aroma:
Pale malt, lots of grainy aroma. Moderate amount of funk and a little horse blanket
Appearance:
Thin white head with a moderate amount of lacing. Orange-copper color, not as red as I was expecting from an "Amber Ale"
Flavor:
Lemony pale flavor. Only a little yeast is noticeable. Overall flavor is mellow and somewhat lacking
Mouthfeel:
Medium bodied but flavor is quite thin. Easy to drink if a bit boring
I was wary of this beer for a couple of reasons... This beer's name and label remind me of of all the sketchy vodka I saw in Eastern Germany. These cheap bottles of vodka were named after historical figures like Putin, Gorbachev and Stalin. These products had nothing to do with their namesake, it was just a marketing ploy to cash in on the name recognition... it struck me as being super tacky. When I first saw this bottle of Bruegel Amber Ale with Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Dance slapped on the side of it I couldn't help but Gorbachev Vodka with a birthmark logo on the bottle...
My impression of this beer didn't improve much as I poured it into my glass. The aroma is pretty mild, smelling mostly like lemon and pale malt. The flavor is about the same as the aroma... pretty weak. This beer tastes like it's about 60% there, you can almost tell what this beer was supposed to taste like but it just falls short. The lemon and pale malt compete for your attention with a subtle amount of yeast. The flavors are fairly well balanced in the sense that they're all too thin.
This beer doesn't taste bad, it just doesn't taste like much...
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