Dubuisson Bush Caractère Refermentée
The Bush Amber Triple is a traditional Bush Amber which has been bottle-refermented in a hot chamber during 3 weeks. Due to this refermentation, its bitter-sweet taste is even strenghened and its malted with nuts aromas more powerful. The beer is naturally cloudier.
The Bush Amber is proposed in a luxury 75 cl embossed bottle with a champagne cork which, while keeping in line with the 25cl bottles, give them an incontestable qualitative style
The Bush Amber is proposed in a luxury 75 cl embossed bottle with a champagne cork which, while keeping in line with the 25cl bottles, give them an incontestable qualitative style
3.6
197 reviews
Pipaix, Belgium
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Pours light amber with super creamy head. That predicts nicely the soft creamy mouthfeel. Caramel caramel caramel! The palate is dominated by this in a delicious way. Maybe some honeycomb and dried fruit in there. Long smooth finish. Truly amazing the way the 12 percent alcohol is masked and balanced all those sweet flavours perfectly.
75cl bottle shared at home. Pale somewhat dark orange with a medium white soapy head. Full body with low to moderate carbonation. Quite sweet with subtle bitter tones. Caramel, malts, peach, yeast, grain and citrus. Nice.
Bought from drankdozijn.nl in a 750ml bottle with cork. Appearance: nice bright amber colored beer with a normal head. Slow bubbling carbonation. Nose: Typical Belgian yeast, banana, caramel malts and alcohol. Taste: bread, grainy with some caramel. The alcohol definitely present, a bit of whiskey... Aftertaste: the mild hops with brown sugar, stays long on my tongue. Nice beer, if you are in the mood for alcohol.
Tap (Riga Craft Beer Festival 2016)
Served cold. Orangey gold, tiny head. Slightly heady vapours. Big sweet malts, but no way is this 12% big or sweet. Light palate in fact.Mellow - more sugar than malt in the fermentables I’d say. Anna mentions the elephant in the glass - the glue. I think the glue’s been well hidden behind the alcohol. Hmmm, that didn’t come out right.
Tap @RCBF 2016. Clear dark amber color. Small size, white head, stays. Malty, sweet, alcohol, acetone in aroma. Alcohol, malty, nutty, some perfume and sweet in taste. Sweet and boozy.
Voici donc une triple créée pour commémorer une triple - la même !! Mais nous sommes au pays de
Magritte, pas de problème … En bref, cette triple ambrée bouchonnée a été créée pour célébrer les
75 ans de la Bush ambrée, elle même une triple (s’il en est ..).
Niveau abv de 12 %, mais mon exemplaire les avait dépassé allègrement …
En effet ma bouteille était à 32 mois après sa date limite, et en pleine phase de madérisation.
Je la prie encore de m’excuser de l’avoir dérangée, mais je devais célébrer ma 900ème bière belge au ratebeer …" A circonstance exceptionnelle, bière exceptionnelle" disait mon grand-père, qui n’en ratait pas une …
Enfin, dans cette introduction, signalons aussi la sympathie d’une bière bouchonnée en format 75cl ,
surtout quand on s’appelle "corky" rory …
Couleur ambrée sombre tirant sur l’acajou, à la clarté nette.
Bulles très fines, par centaines, partout. Superbe, et preuve manifeste que la bière était encore bien
vivante...
Mousse qui s’en tient à une corolle le long des parois du verre (mais c’est déjà le cas souvent de la
Bush ambrée "normale"...).
Arômes de cèdre, pruneau, vin cuit, vigne vierge, pêche de vigne.
1ère bouche huileuse, gourmande à l’entame de classe mondiale en madérisation.
Arrière-bouche sublime vin/fût/bois/fruits confits.
2ème à l’ensemble malt/fruits mûrs/épices.
Arrière-bouche ample, vaste, très longue.
Toute la suite relève du domaine du rêve pur, tant les mots ne peuvent satisfaire à décrire une dégustation pareille.
Jambes huileuses.
Levure Dubuisson, décuplée par son travail sur les années.
Alcool qui était loin au-dessus du titre affiché, mon exemplaire devait se trouver entre 13 et 14% ,
tranquille et sûr de lui !!!!
Finale au 7ème ciel.
CONCLUSION : nous sommes ici dans l’extra-monde de la bière. Le vieillissement appliqué comme un art sur ce type de bières, exactement comme l’affinage des grands fromages, conduit
à un univers extra-terrestre.... Le sublime n’est pas un vain mot ..
En résumé, en Belgique, nous avons des bières religieuses et des non-religieuses .. et celle-ci
est une non-religieuse mais strictement religieuse !!! Comprenne qui pourra !!! Personnellement
j’ai un ami décédé qui aurait compris … Cette 900ème bière belge lui est dédiée.
ASPETTO: ambrato, con schiuma bianca, fine, abbondante e abbastanza persistente. AROMA: caramello, liquoroso, fruttato, maltato. Aroma molto pronunciato e gradevole. GUSTO: tutti i sentori presenti al naso. Corpo strutturato, carbonizzazione medio/bassa. Birra dai sentori intensi, caldi e avvolgenti.
Served in a snifter from a 750ml bottle. Pours slightly hazy amber with a thick off-white head. Aroma is really complex: bread, dried fruits, raisins, caramel, winey with notes of honey and subtle alcohol. Taste is caramel, bread, molasses, grass, warm alcohol sensation within bitter-sweet finish. Full body with medium carbonation, oily texture. Warming feeling from high ABV is laced through from start to finish. Extremely nice, rich and complex beer.
Bottle, 75cl. Sparkling amber/orange with a frothy offwhite head. Aromas of dried fruits, citrus, Belgian yeast, alcohol. Medium bodied with moderate to fizzy carbonation. Smooth and creamy. Very pleasant.
Amber color. High carbonation. Intense aroma of sweet caramel, fruity, bubblegum, butterscotch as it warms up. Starts sweet and fruity, finishes spicy and phenolic. Some bubblegum and caramel. Is a bit astringent. Could do with some aging. Not amazing, but good.
F: off-white, huge, good retention.
C: hazy, amber.
A: grainy, bread, raisin, spicy, dough, dried fruits, hoppy, some alcohol, honey, banana.
T: very smooth, grainy, caramel, toasty, sweet white chocolate, decent grassy bitterness, alcohol warming bitter sweet finish, hint of citrus, brown sugar, lemon peels, Porto vine, it could be quite complex but alcohol is too strong in taste, interesting BSA worth to try, 0,75l bottle from Match supermarket in Brussels.
Bottle from G&B, shared with the in-laws, Hammel, DK - Golden a,her pour with small white head. Aroma and taste is sweet malty, with notes of caramel, toffee, dried fruit apricot prominence, brown sugar, sweet finish.
backlog, clear amber colour with a slight off head. nose of caramel, strong alcohol precense, rotten fruits, banana. flavor follows the nose. lot’s of alcohol heat. like all of their high abv beers. so bad.
Smell of sugar and smooth alcohol
Mouthfeel is sweet. Aromas of orange and lemon. Great roundness and full flavored. Nice beer overall.
750 ml bottle shared by Tmoney99 (I believe) from old backlog notes. Pours a hazy copper brown color with a small off white head. The aroma and flavor have sweet caramel malts, sweet fruits, apricots, dates, a noticeable nutty character, mild bitterness, this really keeps coming back to sweet, ok, but I’m glad I didn’t pay for it.
Amber with rich bit creamy off-white head. Sweet aroma. Taste of medium roasted malt - sweet with certain bitterness, some sourness overall, Sweet bitterness remains on tongue as aftertaste.
Bottle courtsey of Lynn & Barry, consumed at Lynn & Barrys, Merton, Oxon, Wednesday 31st December 2014 Pours amber/dark orange good clarity, plenty of oomph. Alcohol on nose, very soft in mouth a little vanilla. Amazed I hadn’t rated this before, and also suprised at so few rates. a decent beer. A6 A4 T7 P4
Ov13 3.5
amber colour, moderate sized off-white head, which lasts for several minutes; aroma of dried fruits (peach, some raisin), hints of apple, biscuit, caramel, wooden notes, earthy-wine cellar-like yeast, maybe some vanilla and alcohol; taste of raisin, peach, intensive malty sweetness, some apple and spicy alcohol; much more complex than the simple Bush Ambrée
Orangée, ruby, belle carbo collet fin et persistant.
Aromes complexes, subtil mélange d’orange, caramel, bois, whisky et quelques notes aigres.
Vive et chaude en bouche, les notes d’agrumes viennent se fondre dans le caramel de la finale. Le taux d’alcool ne passe pas inaperçu...
’Tripel’ being interpreted here as ’bottle conditioned’ (as classic Belgian tripels usually are so they have a point there), this refermented version of Bush Ambrée was launched in 2008 to celebrate the 75th birthday of the basic beer, which was simply called ’Bush Beer’ until the arrival of its blonde sister in 1998. That blonde version too was honoured with a similar ’tripel’ version in 2008 and I had both of them in that year, shared with imdownthepub (identifying himself as a Ratebeer editor before I was even on Ratebeer myself) and his wife at a Ghent café back then; since my notes of that tasting session were a bit too concise for a beer of this stature, I am re-rating it now from a bottle bought at a Carrefour supermarket. The luxury 75 cl bottle with cork opens with a lot of pressure, but shows no sign of gushing. Almost snow white, moussy, frothy and quite dense, thick head leaving thick patches of lacing here and there, slowly showing gaps in the middle but still very stable for a 12% ABV beer; warm orange robe with slight coppery hue, amber indeed, clear but teeming with small protein flocks and dead yeast cells right from the start, turning a cloudy, slightly brownish-hued amber with deposit. Clearly a somewhat older bottle, but I have no idea for how long it has been standing on the shelves - unfortunately bottling dates, in spite of Zythos’ efforts, are still not obligatory in Belgium; best before date reads March 2019, so this bottle could well be two years old. Strong aroma of marmelade, butterscotch, Grand Marnier, candied banana and even bubblegum (isoamylacetate), soap, canned apricot, sweet peanuts, vanilla sugar, cognac, honey, ’jenever’, tulips, ripe pear, pineapple, mandarin peel, orange candy, fresh toast, hints of liquorish candy, white chocolate, nail polish remover (probably just phenols), lavender, old dry aniseed even, bath foam, cloves. Very sweet onset, candied orange, lots of banana ester, residual white candi sugar sweetness and canned apricots in sugar syrup, but showing a soft counterbalance of berry-like sourishness as well, enhanced by a minerally, sharpish but not too coarse carbonation; fruitiness and lingering sugary or even honeyish sweetness accompany the middle phase as well, full but slick and smooth with slightly coarsening carbo, very caramelly, butterscotch-like with a nutty accent, even ever so lightly toasted in the end but remaining sweet. Malt sweetness along with that initial sugary sweetness prevail in the finish, but are confronted there with a strong, wry, whisky- and Cointreau-like alcohol flavor and -effect, heating up the back of the mouth and leaving some astringency on the root of the tongue, as is also the case with the regular and Noël versions in this brand. Some lightly spicy and grassy hop bitterness also shows up, providing balance, as well as a typical, eventually very earthy ’yeast bitterness’, but sweetness and booze dominate. One slow sipper for those who are into strong, sweet, phenolic and estery Belgians, basically the Belgian version of the Anglo-Saxon barley wine concept. A tad too sweet and certainly too alcoholic for my personal taste, but nevertheless a ’big’ beer with a certain elegance; the refermentation does add a layer of additional complexity to the basic beer, which is, whether you like it or not, one of those great classics in 20th century Belgian beer culture. Recommended over the regular version, as far as I’m concerned, but again, you will really have to like banana ester, spicy phenols and other Belgian yeast effects, because those are clearly more prevalent in this refermented version than in the filtered regular version.
Amber copper beer. Alchool, fruits, sugar, spices, yeast. Medium body. Same notes but too alchoolic
Aroma: caramel malts, grains, cereals. Appearance: hazy amber, small white head. Taste: medium sweet. Palate: sugary sweets expanding, light alcohol notes, caramel. Overall: very nice (and strong) Belgian Strong Ale. Bottle at Les Halles, Ypres.
Bottle 75 cl. Pours copper in color with a foamy off-white head. Garden fruityness, malty notes and sweet brown sugary notes in aroma, some flowery summer meadow as well. Bit of orange fruityness in taste along with sweetish notes as in brown sugar with hints of some biting spicyness too.
Bottiglia da 750, colore ambrato scuro con una schiuma poco persistente e fina, l’aroma richiama molto la frutta e il vino, al sapore risalta molto il malto e lo speziato poi si sentono tutti i suoi 12% di ABV, forse anche troppo per i miei gusti
750 ml bottle into tulip glass, best before 2015. Pours moderately cloudy deep orange copper color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense off white head with solid retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big golden raisin, plum, fig, cherry, pear, apple, caramel, candi sugar, toast, biscuit, clove, pepper, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of fruity/spicy yeast and malt sweetness; with great strength. Taste of big golden raisin, plum, fig, pear, apple, caramel, candi sugar, toast, biscuit, clove, pepper, herbal, floral, and yeast earthiness. Lingering notes of golden raisin, plum, fig, pear, apple, caramel, candi sugar, toast, biscuit, clove, pepper, herbal, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity and big robustness of fruity/spicy yeast and deep malt flavors; with a great malt/yeast flavor balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Medium carbonation and fairly full bodied; with a smooth, slick, and lightly syrupy mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a light warming present after the finish. Overall this is an awesome Belgian strong ale! All around great complexity and robustness of fruity/spicy yeast ester and deep malt sweetness; and very smooth to sip on for the big ABV. A highly enjoyable offering.
(bottle, 75cl) Slightly hazy, amber coloured hue with floaties and a short and off-white foamy head. Delicately toasted malty aroma with notes of caramel, nuts, phenolic spices from behind and a slightly vinous fruity touch. Moderately sweet and slightly bitter flavour, full bodied with a smooth carbonation. Strong but still elegant malt character with caramel, nutty notes and a vinous fruity touch; moderately sweet malty and distinctively nutty finish with a whiff of booze, caramel and dried fruits. A nice winter warmer. 26.XII.13
Bottled 750ml. -from Svijet Piva Zagreb. Had this one after all major Bush big bottle beers. And what a joy!!! From the beginning; clear amber coloured and medium sized off-white head; strong alcohol and some fruits in the nose. Heavy alcoholic, slight fruity and yeasty with (warming) vodka like taste. The finish is also the same; vodka like. Hardly a decent beer and a huge letdown for me!!!
Bouteille(0.75 l):Copper coloured, lots of floaties visible, small off-white head, vinous-fruity nose with aromas of caramel and alcohol; moderate to solid sweet flavour, supported by light bitterness, quite full bodied; lingering caramelly and fruity finish with a warming alcohol-burn in the aftertaste. Not bad, but not my cup of tea…
Rated on 01-05-2010 (Bottle) This beer forms a large, very, very fizzy ivory head that mostly diminishes, hazy amber body, fizzy carbonation, lots of floaties, and no lacing. The Aroma is caramel malt, very aromatic, fruity, alcohol, spicy, and some vanilla. The Taste is malty, fruity, spicy, and the 12% ABV comes through like a lion. The Palate has an alcohol burn and this beer is medium bodied. Overall, as much as I like this beer style and high ABV beers, I have to admit this beer is a little too much for me. It is worth trying nonetheless.
Im Geruch sehr süßlich-süffig, dabei doch sehr
alkoholisch!
Antrunk beißend alkoholisch-stark. Danach fällt der
alkoholische Geschmack aber sehr schnell ab und es wird
milder, cremiger und richtig erstaunlich weich.
Es hat ein Bißchen was von weichen, reifen Früchten.
Der Nachgeschmack ist fruchtig-bananig, aber doch recht
kurz und wieder leicht alkoholisch.
Insgesamt doch sehr nettes Bier, aber der viele Alkohol
ist meiner Meinung nach vollkommen unnötig --> mit
weniger Alkohol wäre es viel besser trinkbar!
Test vom 17.4.2008, Gebinde: Glasflasche Noten: 12,8,9,8,12,9 - 9,15