Bavik Petrus Oud Bruin Brown Ale

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Bavik Petrus Oud Bruin Brown Ale
Brouwerij Bavik
Harelbeke-Bavikhove, Belgium


I'm a little biased against Bavik in that I think their brews are generally a step below craft even though they are a step above general macros. There's just something about them which tastes like my semi-metallicy homebrews (as if they hadn't sat long enough to let the yeast do its work) but that could all be in the transport, age and variety available across the seas here in the US. Either way this is a pretty good Belgian styled browner. It started off a little metallic and hard waterish but smoothed into a ribbon of creamy Belgian malt and sour barrel yeastiness. It reminds me of Grotten (even though I lost my notes on that one a long while ago) but a bit less potent and more sweet than many dark hued Belgian browns.

-Wörtwurst