Bink Bruin

Bink Bruin

The ‘Bink brown’ is the most known ‘Bink beer’.

It’s a beer of high fermentation, unfiltered and not pasteurized, with secundary fermentation in the bottle.

This tasty beer is appreciated by the lover of brown beers.

The ingredients are: four types of malt, one belgian type of hop, brewing liquor and yeast.

Our ‘Bink brown’ is a full and softly bitter beer with an aftertaste of sweets and malt.

The alcohol content of this ‘little giant’ is 5,5 % vol.alc.
3.2
294 reviews
Sint-Truiden, Belgium

Community reviews

3.5 Drinking this on lovely end of summer, Sunday afternoon. Pours a very dark chocolatey brown, cloudy, almost completely opaque. A foamy tan head dissipates quickly. Aroma is gentle and sweet, classically Belgian. Fig Newtons, brown sugar, almond paste and molasses. A bit of clove, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. Not cloying but definitely dessert-like. Very smooth on the palate. The carbonation is mild, which bring out the bready character of this beer. Pumpernickel and dark honey are the primary flavors. Ends with licorice and a slightly smoky finish. A final burst of buttermilk, burnt caramel and tingling carbonation balances out the sweetness of this beer. Follows the tradition of medium-bodied trappist brown ales without achieving the same complexity. Lacks a unique point of view. That said, it marks the beginning of fall in a delightful way.
3.2 33 cl. bottle. A brown coloured beer with a beige head. Aroma and flavour of malt, caramel, dried fruit, spice, yeast and roasted notes.
3.2 Brown color with tan head. Aroma has wort sweetness and roasted grains with some earthy hops in the background. Taste is mostly malty with roasted grains and some brown sugar. Medium to light body and carbonation. Easy drinking, roasty ale, really similar to a porter.
3.4 Dark brown, with a bit of light tan foam. Nose has dark sugars, watered down molasses, caramel cream, Belgian chocolate malt, light earthy spices. The taste isn’t as sweet as expected, but quite earthy and spicy from the start, with grassy notes, crushed peppercorn, clove, faint cardamom and even some light tannins. Some toast and light caramel, some faint apple mash, and then a light bitterness in the finish. Dusty, earthy aftertaste, somewhat dry, too. Medium body, rather high carbonation. A nice enough Belgian dark, a bit rustic, authentic-feeling. I like this style.
3.3 Aroma not bad but faint: candi sugar, alcoholic sweetness, butterscotch, some plums. Taste creamy, sweet butterscotch, a little burnt maybe, some caramel, not bad but very thirteen in a dozen.
3.0 Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is dark malt, caramel, toffee, nuts, dried fruits, raisins, spicy notes, yeast. Flavour is above medium sweet with a little bitterness in the finish. Body is medium and a bit creamy. Not really my kind of beer, but it has some pleasant easy smoothness and slightly creamy body. Not bad.
3.3 33cl bottle. Dark brown with a small tan head. Caramel, syrup and nutty. Nice.
3.2 Bottle 33cl. poured into a shaker. Clear amber brown, small frothy tan head, mostly diminishing, light lacing; aroma roasted malts, honey, caramel, dark fruits, treacle, brown sugar; taste medium sweet and bitter, malty, caramel, brown sugar; sweetbitter aftertaste, sugary; medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation; decent.
3.4 Bottle from Dranken Geers, near Ghent. Opaque dark brown beer with reddish clarity at edges and off white head which dissipates quickly. Nose is brown sugar, earthy, boiled sweet, nutty, caramel, Cola, brown bread.Taste is brown sugar, caramel, cola, slight nuttiness, earthy, little fruitiness. Little bit f bitterness from the hop.
3.0 Clear dark ruby, tanned lacing foam head. Caramel aroma and taste. Light bitterness in aftertaste, malty. (Velp 201606)
3.1 Bit bland; brown biscuits; a little sweet; OK weight. Bit like port on finish
3.2 33 cl. bottle @ home. bought @ van Rooij, Culemborg. Clear dark brown with an off-white head. Caramel and malt aroma with some yeast and dark fruits. Taste is sweet with a port-like undertone. Decent and solid brown.
3.2 Dark red brown with a tan head. Aroma off dark fruit and sirup. Some spice. Taste is sweet with a spicy and bitter aftertaste. Thin mouthfeel.
3.3 Bottle at home. Pours brown in colour with red hints and a tan head. Aroma of yeast and burnt sugar. Taste is sweet to start with a good bitter finish. Firm, malty base with fruity tastes. Quite lively on the tongue, but has a smooth, dry finish. A pleasant beer.
3.2 smells like brown sugar, dark brown body with white lacing, sour brown sugar flavour.
3.2 9/27/2009 1:44:10 PM Bottle from Bierkoning. Coca cola body with thin head. Malty and sweet nose. Nice malts with caramel flavour. Slightly watery. Also quite spicy, especially in the finish. Nice one.
3.2 Bottle 0.33l at The 8th Belgrade tasting Session One at the Beerville Beer Bar.17.07.2015.Thanks Matt for this bottle.Pour it dark brown color with medium white head.Aroma of caramel. Taste of malt,kind of bitter, medical finish.Ok
3.4 Flasche (33 cl) von Belgianbeerz.com. - Tiefes Rotbraun, gut trüb; kurzlebiger Schaum. - In der Nase kräftiges dunkles Malz, Karamel, Bitterschokolade, süßliche obergärige Fruchtigkeit und ein wenig krautige Herbe. - Antrunk füllig dunkelmalzig mit deutlichen Röstaromen, Kaffee, etwas herb-fruchtiger Süße (Pfirsichschale) und nicht zu wenig krautiger Hopfenherbe, dazu ein Schuß fruchtiger Säure. Mild rezent, zunächst vollmundig, zum Ende hin eher dünn, beinahe wäßrig, aber schön süffig. Gut hopfenherber, röstmalzbitterer Abgang. - Angenehmes Brune, das Dunkelmalzsüße und Hopfenherbe geschickt verbindet. Die Karamelsüße ist dezent, die Fruchtigkeit ebenfalls, der Hopfen nicht zu schwach.
3.0 At Belgrade Eighth Tasting, round one. Bottle, from Skopje. Brown, root beer, soapy foam. Soft, very malty aroma. Cold, mild body. A bit of residual heavy sweetness. Anonymous, nothing special.
3.3 At the 8th tasting (round 1), held at Vlada’s Beerville pub in Belgrade-Serbia. Bottle from Marko, ciao. Pours a medium-dark amber color, off-white minimal foamy cap. Nose: molasses of dry figs, caramelized brown sugar. Mouth: mild and impersonal caramel character, a decent dubbel but far from being stunnig.
2.8 On tap at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pours dark brown with small brown head. Aroma of caramel, nuts, some roasted notes, dark dried fruits. Taste sweet, a little fruity, slightly bitter in the finish. generally quite thin in both aroma and taste.
3.3 A little underrated. Good for a brown light Belgian (there’s a sentence only a beer geek will understand). Light smoke and some burnt brown sugar. Light florals. Light sweet finish. Consistency a little on the syrupy side. Tap at Churchkey.
3.1 330ml bottle from Corner Bar, Beijing. Pours dark brown with an off white head. Aroma of malt and toffee. Short bitter finish. Not as good as the blonde.
3.0 Pours a finger of tan head on a dark brown body. The aroma is a nice roasted malt and nutty. The taste has lots of caramel malt sweetness, more honey sweetness and some roasted malt. The texture is smooth. Not bad, tends to the sweet side.
3.0 Bottle at home, thx Carsten. Clear Brown with a light Brown head. Aroma medium malty (caramel, roasted, Brown sugar). Flavor medium sweet, light bitter. Medium body.
3.5 Julie says wow and interesting pretty good. I felt it was pretty good V.
3.5 "yeasty spice, raisiny sweetness, tofee, and chocolate in the nose and flavor, with just a little alcohol apparent. I enjoyed it, though Bink Grand Cru is many times better (and many times more expensive). Smooth and highly drinkable."
2.0 Er zit meer smaak aan de bink blond dan aan de bink bruin en dit zou niet mogen. Een tegenvaller
3.1 Dark counterpart of Bink Blond, added to the range in 1996. Beige, creamy head, colour a dark reddish brown, typical dubbel. Aroma malty, dried fruits, lot of iron; taste malty and rather dry, finishing moderately hoppy, mouthfeel rather thin.
3.9 Aroma and flavour of dark, sweet, caramel malts. Sweet, dark dried fruits too. Amazingly smooth and rich feeling for a relatively low alcohol beer.