Something extra special from Struise as a thank you to all of our beer members for your patience and understanding while waiting for our delayed container this month!
The Black Damnation series from Struise are all based around Black Albert, a Belgian Royal Stout of 13% ABV. The idea was to create a series of different beers: some barrel aged or ice-distilled, some with additional ingredients or blends of different beers.
BD2 is a blend of 50% Black Albert matured on whole Columbian coffee beans, 25% De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis aged for 6 months in Jack Daniels barrels and 25% Cuvee Delphine (Black Albert aged 12 months in 4 Roses Bourbon barrels).
It is a beast of a beer with a heavy aroma of coffee, vanilla, roasted malts, dark fruits and bourbon notes. All of this and more are present in the taste, which is rich and full from the start.
Roasted malts with the bite of dark chocolate are the backbone of the beer, with coffee, bourbon, caramel, raisins, brown sugar, vanilla and even something a little spicy. It is boozy though the beer is velvety smooth, covering off the high alcohol so well. The balance of the blended beers is achieved with true skill from the Belgian masters of barrel-aged dark beers.
A double IPA from Struise, originally made for De Molen's Borefts beer festival as a tribute to De Molen Vuur & Vlam
More like a traditional quadrupel than the Pannepot; brewed for the Dutch market.
One of the best Belgian beers you'll ever taste - so much flavour it's impossible to describe.
A massive barley wine aged in Bordeaux French oak barrels that were previously home to Swiss red wine
The sister-beer to Pannepot, this quadrupel was first made for the Danish market
The famous Old Fisherman's Ale from Struise is a spiced strong dark ale
The 2019 version of Pannepot aged in bourbon barrels
Struise's spiced strong dark ale Pannepot, matured in Bordeaux barriques for a full 4 years
Struise's famous spiced strong dark ale aged three years in wine and port barrels
A dark blond quadrupel that has been aged in both St Emilion wine barrels and Kentucky Bourbon barrels
An amber ale brewed with barley, wheat and oats and finished with a little Belgian candi sugar.
A delicious dark quadruple aged for three years in Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrels
A big Belgian quadruped aged in Woodford Reserve bourbon barrels for two years
The Struise Tsjeeses is their blond-amber Christmas seasonal beer, with this 2014 vintage being aged in Bourbon barrels
Another masterpiece from Struise, a blonde Christmas Ale full of flavours that come through in layers.
A cracking seasonal blond-amber Christmas beer from De Struise Brouwers
Struise's winter seasonal offering - a 10% strong blond spiced ale
