Petrus Oud Bruin
Beer No: 31/1001
Page No: 779
Category: Dark
I just don't understand...why does 7-11 feel the need to sell their own brand of cheap beer? Did they really think that the Bud Light / Miller Light / Coors Light marketplace needed another entrant? Did they think people, most likely set in their cheap, yellow, fizzy beer ways would suddenly switch to 7-11 brand "Game Day" beer? Well, I guess they figured if all the big breweries are getting a piece of the crap beer pie, they should have a sliver too...so out they come with "Game Day" and "Game Day Light" and luckily I don't have to go buy some to review it. The folks over at the SF Gate did a wonderful review already. So, if you really need a reason to not drink this swill, hopefully the review will do that for you. Here's my favorite part of the review:
Despite showing up in a sport coat and button-down shirt, the dude behind the counter still instinctively covered my giant cans of Game Day Ice and Game Day Light in a small paper bag, presumably so the cops wouldn't hassle me if I wanted to drink my beer on the corner. Thanks, mini-mart enablers! I felt weird paying with a five dollar bill. Next time I buy Game Day beer I'm definitely dropping a handful of nickels, dimes and pennies, a crumpled up dollar and a subway token on the counter.
Luckily the educated out there aren't going to drink this. Luckily we have beers from German, Belgium, and craft breweries in the United States to save us. Luckily we have beers like Petrus' Oud Bruin. A mixture of old and young brown ales, this beer smells a bit more tart than it tastes. It has a wonderful complexity to the flavors with sweetness, malts, tartness, and hints of oak, cherries, and raspberries. I drank this one as I watched my brother and his friends throw darts while drinking Bud Light for the most part. Luckily one of his friends has a smidgen of taste and brought over a six-pack of New Belgium's Mothership Wit, but that disappeared first and they went to their old friend, the Bud Light. I guess there will always be a market for cheap, crap beers, even amongst those that know good beers are out there - even if they're surrounded by the good beers.
My review, cross-posted at RateBeer.com:
Petrus Oud Bruin from Bavik-De Brabandere
Aroma: 7/10
Appearance: 4/5
Taste: 7/10
Palate: 4/5
Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0
Had from bottle from Total Wine & More. Pours a dark brown with hints of red and a tan head with good lacing. The aroma is tart which belies the subtleness of the sourness in the flavor. Other aromas of malts and fruits - cherries, raspberries... Tastes of a brown ale - malts, oak, slightly sour and more oak than I expected. With the tart aroma, I expected a more pronounced sour flavor, but it’s quite demure with just slight undertones. Very enjoyable, drinkable, and tasty.
