/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Im pretty new to beer and had this yesterday. I drank it with some SN Oktoberfest (wanted side by side comparison for some reason) and it didnt turn out so well. Maybe its because im new, maybe its because i was drinking a very fresh beer with it, but it had something horribly off about it. It tasted of some dark malty sweetness with wine-like dark fruitiness. Where it went wrong was at the end it had this taste that i cant pinpoint, but it kind of reminded me of age (in a bad way, like a spoiled old wine or something).

So i got a couple questions. First, do you guys know of the taste im talking about? Is it possible it was a bad batch? Secondly, is this a belgian thing? Are english brown ales and bocks etc more just malty less winey flavors? It was quite destestable, so i cant help but think it was an off-flavor from a bad batch, but i only got a single so i cant know.