The 68 Beers Project: Dubuisson Bush Ambrée
By SteveR
Adventurous beer-drinker SteveR is on a mission to try the 68 out of 100 yet-untried Beers To Try Before You Die before the end of 2010.
This remarkably strong Belgian beer is 12% ABV, so it’s perhaps just as well that it comes in a relatively small bottle. Some super-strength beers can taste pretty awful (just think of Carlsberg’s vile
Special Brew), but this beer tastes very pleasant indeed. Mr Protz says that “it is a warming and alcoholic beer, the perfect aperitif, according to the brewers”. I fully concur, and I’ll definitely be having it again. It can be bought at The Offie at £2.95 for a 250ml bottle.
Shockingly, Bush Ambrée has to be sold in America (and many other countries) as Scaldis, because of bullying legal action by the US brewing giant Anheuser-Busch. Mr Protz has this to say on the matter:
“Anheuser-Busch is best known for American Budweiser and it is difficult to imagine that any self-respecting beer drinker could confuse the two beers.”
Only 66 more to go now……..
