Scassenes Cookie Beer

Scassenes Cookie Beer

High fermentation amber beer. With hints of cinnamon, it's a sweet beer with fine bitterness and discreet taste often accompanied with desserts.
Bière au gout de spéculoos brassée dans la tradition belge (haute fermentation et deuxième fermentation en bouteille). Notes de cannelle, une bière douce à l'amertume fine et au goût discret idéal pour accompagner un dessert.

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2.8
230 reviews
Ecaussinnes, Belgium

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2.9 Couleurs ambrée foncée. Nez de caramel et de chocolat très présent. Bière très peu amère en bouche avec un fort gout de caramel, touche très légère de houblon en fin de bouche. touches d’amertume légère. Bière apéritive, orgiginale mais pas extraordinaire.
1.3 Chunky, overly sweet and doesn’t hide the alcohol at all. I wouldn’t mind the nutmeg, spicy flavour if it didn’t feel like it has real cookies crumbled in it.
2.5 Visual: (cellared for 3 years). Pours muddy brownish orange with a large super foamy lasting head, 5mm layer of retention, dense clusters of very active streams. Nose: nutmeg, clove, white pepper (lvl-5)-pungency Attack: creamy-crisp, incoming sharp sweetness Mid-palate: sickly escalating (lvl-8-sweetness), cinnamon, ginger, star anise, toffee malt, zingy alcohol Finish: star anise exhale, sugar rush headache. Summary: Likable creamy texture but very heavy on the sugars, ginger, and star anise flavours. Difficult to sip without starchy food. Unbalanced - too sweet, too spiced.
1.4 Nowhere near as interesting as it sounds. Quite a high alcohol content, probably a bit too high as it has quite a standard flavour. Best avoided.
3.0 Bottle. Was expecting something very different from this, largely sweet ginger taste. Interesting though.
1.8 Bottle. No idea where it came from but probably Deanso :-) Poured a hazy straw colour with a big frothy white head and lots of sediment and bubbles. The aroma is rich sweet malt, light floral. The flavour is massive sweet with a rich sweet fruity malt palate and a lingering sweet bubbly mouthfeel. Light bodied with lively carbonation. Did not get the Speculaas at all. Sweet, bubbly and truly awful! Had a couple of sips and poured the rest.
2.7 Bottle from Carrefour City supermarket, Brugges, Belgium. Cloudy amber coloured with a large white head of foam. It has a strong, overpowering taste of cinnamon and biscuits followed by a smooth soapy and tart dried fruit finish.
2.9 Hazy orange amber beer, small white head. Nose is malty and sweet, some vanilla and spice. Flavor is malty and with cinnamon hints plus sweetness, it does give an overall impression of a sweet pastry. Malty, bready finish. Like the label says, a cookie beer.
3.2 0,33L bottle (from beerExpress, Tallinn). Pours amber with off-white head. The head stays. Aroma is sweet, malt, fruits. Flavor is sweet, chocolate cookies, malt, spices, fruits. Alcohol is rather well covered. Overall: well, it tastes like cookies...
3.1 In every way, this is a quite different beers. Both the flavor is characterized by the famous Bastogne Biscuits, but in a style that never make it too sweet, queasy or monotonous. It’s like eating the famous biscuits, only without crunching! I can not quite imagine what it should be enjoyed for, but it is in itself a pleasure alone. The foam is limited and behind the cute facade senses a little hop, after all. Very different, but fun and functional beer that certainly should be verified by anyone.
3.2 Bottle. Dirty yellow pour with lots of floating debris. Aroma is very sweet, some Belgian yeast with some sugar cookie notes. Flavour is very sweet, cinamon and some ginger, sugary. Actually quite tasty, but a little odd. Light bodied and overly sweet, but an intriguing cookie flavour.
2.8 Amber coloured beer with white foam head. much yeast flakes. Aroma of cinnamon. Taste also cinnamon, spices. Indeed biscuits beer.
0.5 Immonde liquide qui ne devrait meme pas s’appeller bière, il y a beaucoup de morceaux en suspensions ,au nez c’est horrible, en bouche c’est affreux, l’alcool est omniprésent, Même mon évier n’en a pas voulu et me l’a recraché à la gueule !!!!
3.0 Bière qui goûte fortement le speculoos avec un arrière goût amère de houblon. Bière particulière
2.9 Speculoos aroma. Strong ginger taste. Abundant floating residues. Pleasant in the mouth but one bottle is already much.
3.1 orange, hazy color. smells of speculoos cookies, light apple / fried apple slices, and strong cinnamon smell. full body, quite sweet and taste of cinnamon. not bad, but a bit unbalanced. too sweet, too intense aftertaste.
4.0 Perfect Christmas beer! Light brown with medium white head. Perfect gingerbread taste, this is liquid gingerbread indeed! Meanwhile nice beer bitterness comes later.
1.5 ************************************************************************************************ Prima Goed Redelijk Matig Niet mijn smaak +
0.5 One of the view rare occasions in which I emptied my glass after a view sips straight into the sink... A terrible waste of ingredients this heavily spiced piece of ale. Refers much more to sugared water than to beer.
1.3 Bière qui n’est pas du tout une « belgian strong ale », mais alors là pas du tout, mais alors là que non point, mais alors là que nenni… C’est une bière prétendument « spéciale belge » au spéculoos, et qui se révèle une nullité sans nom … (en langage populaire, une chierie pure …). Couleur précisément excrément de chien un peu malade (voire beaucoup …). Apparence avec des morceaux de spéculoos !!! (non, je rigole, des particules échappées d’une centrale nucléaire, ou de l’arrière-train d’un cabot pas catho …). Bulles moyennes pas nombreuses, mais garanties crados.. Mousse mince comme un nappage de rejet gastrique. Arômes de soupe aux oignons (tournée à vinaigre), linge mouillé au fil, caca d’oie. 1ère bouche liquide (tu m’étonnes), sur un infâme composé d’oranges amères et cannelle au rabais. Arrière-bouche (si l’on peut dire) qui vous fait reculer de 20 cm sur votre siège. 2ème bouche inqualifiable, qui est un galimatias de goûts hétéroclites. Arrière-bouche infecte sur une cannelle passée. 3ème avec cannelle et oignons cuits dans un jus de crabe. Arrière-bouche sur du cambouis de garage. Sur la longueur, on regrette amèrement (le mot m’échappe) d’avoir 33 cl dans son verre. CONCLUSION : moi qui adore la cannelle, je n’aurais jamais imaginé que l’on puisse faire quelque chose d’aussi mauvais avec ce produit. Même les pires cuisinières n’auraient pu faire plus mal, c’est dire !!! Abject.
3.8 An unclear, golden beer with a small white head. Cookies, ginger and cardamom on the nose, the ginger toned down in the oldest bottle. Cookies, ginger and pale malts in the flavor, as in the aroma, the ginger had faded over the years, and there’s some oxidation too.
1.0 Bottle. Fizzy pour with a large sized head. Amber in color. This one was just nasty - infected? Sounded interesting, but straight to the drain.
2.3 0.33L bottle. Pours chunky golden-orange with a thin white head. Aromas are of.. cookies! Speculaas, to be precise: Cinammon, clove, ginger, and some citrusy notes to boot. Flavor is very sweet, bready malt, ginger, cinammon, cloves. Flavor turn to herby hop and yeasty bitterness at the end, leaving a lingering cookie sweetness and a fuzzy tongue. Full body with a sticky mouthfeel and average (albeit sharp) carbonation. Overall, just like the label says, it’s a cookie beer. Really quite sweet. Couldn’t drink to many of these, but tasty enough for a desert beer.
1.6 Orange brown in color, with a small, soon disappearing head, a lot of sediment flows in the beer. Aromas of cinnamon, toffee and biscuit, accompanied by hints of yeast, raisins and almond. Extreme spiciness brings the palate close to collapsing, defined by sweetened cinnamon, clove, cane sugar and a slick bitterness, numbing the tastebuds for possible more subtle flavors. Finishes with biscuit malts, toffee and a huge load of cinnamon, almost too much to bear. Taste gets saved by a lively carbonation, putting some balance to the brew, with coppery hints and a refreshing note. I might also detect orange rind and a whiff of citrus, but actually I am not too sure, because of the ridiculous amount of spices used in this. Very hard to drink.
1.3 Taste like fake chocolate. Not my favorite but it gets the job done. The wife said it smells horrible so there’s that. I don’t think I would drink it again unless it was all I had.
1.0 Op het eerste gezicht veel schuim in het glas. Zeer troebel bier met wat lijkt ongefilterde hop/mout? Smaak van zoet en karamel. Kon geen speculoos eruit halen, ook niet uit het bouqette. Al om al niet echt het beste bier wat ik op heb.
1.8 Geel bier met schuim. Smaak is zoet met speculaas aroma die chemisch overkomt. Combinatie is apart en naar mijn mening minder geslaagd.
2.0 Bottle courtesy of Amy, thank you ma’am! Smells and tastes like oatmeal raisin cookies. An interesting concept, but not for a beer, sorry. Couldn’t finish it.
1.6 Geruch kräftig nach Zimt und Vanille. Geschmack dann sehr extrem, Zimt Vanille, Karamell und Aschenbecher. Zudem relativ stärker Alkohol Geschmack. Brennt im Hals.
3.2 Export version of the infamous biscuit beer Ultra de Noël, with a thick, moussy, yellowish white head and orange blonde, vaguely misty robe. Sweet aroma, opulently decorated with biscuit, plum loaf, gingerbread, caramel candy, banana, overripe peaches, ginger powder, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, dried orange peel and a sharp meaty smell reminiscent of meatloaf or even chicken broth. Very sweet taste of honey and ’speculaas’, caramel syrup, soft and mellow mouthfeel, sourish accent, sweetish spices, medium carbonation, finishing a bit dryish due to not too well-hidden alcohol. Original but clearly not to everybody’s taste.