Grimbergen Cuvée de l'Ermitage
Brouwerijen Alken-Maes in Alken, Limburg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular|
Score
6.39
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Tap @ Café Morshuis Albergen. The tap wasn’t chilled by accident, so I got a warm sample for free. Overwhelming malt character with toffee fudge and hints of fresh cheese. Not bad, but will taste again when at the right temp.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The follow-up to Union’s original Cuvée de l’Ermitage, a bitterish, then-renowned ale that has been included in the Grimbergen range years ago and doesn’t exist anymore in its original form. This version is a tad darker and sweeter than the original, caramel malts, bit woody, dried fruits, relatively long, hoppy finish. Still better than most other Grimbergens.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Trübes bernsteinfarbenes Bier mit schöner Schaumkrone. Geruch malzig süß, überreife Früchte, hefig, würzig. Geschmack malzig fruchtig, reife Früchte, leicht alkoholisch, würzig.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Boring Belgian blond beer. Grimbergen’s Tripel and Gold are better than this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4
Der Geruch ist malzig-alkoholisch, leicht fruchtig-muffig. Der Antrunk ist sehr interessant - sauer-süßlich - irgendwie komisch. Der Hauptteil ist etwas voller und süffiger werdend, leichte Säure ist aber immer noch wahrnehmbar. Der Nachgeschmack ist alkoholisch-malzig-süßlich, leicht herb mit saurem Ton. Insgesamt erscheint mir das Ganze sehr unausgewogen. Auf der Zunge bleibt eine langanhaltende, herb-malzige und leicht süßliche Note, die irgendwie komisch wirkt.
--> nicht so überzeugend!!
Test vom 25.3.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 12,8,11,7,12,8 - 8,90
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Thx! for sharing tderoeck @ ‘The Adam Jackson Tasting’. Old time looking medicine bottle covered in dust. 25 cl. Sampled. BBF 1997 – 1992 & 1995 Vintages were speculated. Pours a reddish brown with no head. Sweet caramel, syrup in the nose, thick pancake style, oxidized but good, sweet sherry,.... Sweet caramel, toffee, sherry, oxidation, syrup, apple juice, dark honey, sweet herbs,.... Flat & oxidized but this has held up quite phenomenally. Slick with no carbonation. One of the best aged beers, I have had – big surprise.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Murky brown. No head. 1992 vintage. Cheese and honey. Bananas. Tastes is very sweet. Old bread, cardboard and honey. Not quite boozy but very cough syrup finish. Has a pasty chalky finish
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Grimbergen Cuvée de l'Ermitage (by Brouwerijen Alken-Maes (Heineken)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
25/II/13 - 25cl bottle from De Heeren van Liedekercke (Denderleeuw) @ home - BB: VI/1997 (2013-199)
Little cloudy brown to dark brown beer, no head, some chunks floating around (had the last part of the bottle). Aroma: some caramel, and chocolate, bit sugary, chloride detected, bit spicy, little stale, but only a little. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: caramel, bit sugary, sour touch, some honey, bit oxidized. Aftertaste: caramel, little bready, sugar, orange peel, sherry, little bitter and slightly sour. This has aged amazingly well. Probably 18 years old. (1997-2 = 1995 vintage)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From BA (Oct 2007): Brown 33cl bottle. Best before 25th Jan 2006. I only bought it in September this year, bloody cheek, I obtained it from a shop in Middlekirke, Belgium. I didn’t think to look at the date. Anyway I poured it into one of my Leffe glasses and it came out looking like this: A slightly hazy amber toffee colour with a fine thick creamty head which was an off white biege colour. Yet again I fail to find the esters others claim, toffee apples and malted barley is all I got. Not really sweet, but that toffee feeling is in there along with some caramel. There is a bite to the taste though, this is not a smooth Dubbel like Westmalle for instance, this is more robust, or of course it might be going off because it is so old? There is a lingering of flavours and the alcohol is there throughout the drink, it is however fairly thin for a true Dubbel and lacks the richness normally found. Although it isn’t a great Dubbel it is still a very nice beer and I would have no problem having another (in date if possible), it is more than ’drinkable’.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Das Bier schmeckt im Antrunk etwas säuerlich, ab dem Mittelteil kommt ein fruchtiger Teil dazu, während das säuerliche Aroma nachlässt. So, mit später dazu kommendem leicht malzigem Ton, geht es dann in den Nachgeschmack. Es wirkt alles in allem etwas eintönig, gefällt mir nicht, wirkt irgendwie unfertig. Test vom 24.11.2006, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 9,6,7,5,11,6 - 6,55