L'Ambrée d'Esquelbecq
Brasserie Thiriez in Esquelbecq (Ekelsbeke), Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
6.63
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Rusty color, airy foam, pretty malty and roasted aromas, lively mouth and well-balanced bitterness.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Taster from bottle at Binny’s, Downers Grove. Nice warm, spicy smell, slightly cloudy caramel color. Taste is somewhat fizzy in the style of a warm ferment. A little fruity, and slightly nutty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2012
at 21:29
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
2*330 ml bottles bought in a mixpack and shared at tasting. Pours hazy dark amber with a frothy off-white head that slowly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, malty and tiny metallic with plums, raisins, bread, apricots, sweet oranges, caramelized nuts and toffee. Taste is very sweet and fruity with bread, wild strawberries, wood, hazelnuts, toffee and hints of vanilla. Mouthfeel is tiny watery, slightly sticky sweet and light to medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and very tiny sour with bread, wood, yeasty esters and plums.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2012
at 05:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle via brekeriet (thanks to Nisse666!), sampled on March 10, 2012BB 09/2012, Lot 266Cloudy brown color, small yellow head. Spicy, grainy, fruity scent. Sweet, spicy, fruity, bready taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium low bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Mar 2012
at 08:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
dough, spruce, cereal, citrus, herbs, cough drop, butterscotch, raisin, smoke, amber, hazy, minimal head, light sweetness, very bitter, medium sourness, umami, medium body, creamy, soft carbonation,
Tried
on 09 Mar 2012
at 11:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Hazy darker golden to orange colour. Some sediment. Medium airy stable head. Aroma of caramel, cinnamon. Also cereal and other unidentified spices. Taste medium bitter, light sweet, light sour. The finish is medium bitter, light sour. 5 4 5 3 10 Rerate. Hazy amber colour, white head. Aroma subtly spicy, caramel. Spices in taste as well, clove, cinnamon, badyan. Slightly spicy, otherwise nicely balanced. Good one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Mar 2012
at 05:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from SB cons 2012-02-22 Göteborg AR: heavy roasted malt, pumpernickel bread, some licorice, AP: reddish woddy mahogny colored body, wee fizxy deminishing head F: roasted malt, brown syrup, bread, cardemummseeades, cola
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2012
at 16:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Flaska på Bishop, Gustav. Halva flaskan skummar ut när kapsylen åker av. Bonus till personalen som öpnnade en till och bjöd på den. Rödbrun lätt grumlig vätska. Sötsyrlig vinäger doft. Skulle gissa på en snällare flamländsk rödöl. Fina toner av fuktigt trä plus snäll syra och ganska mycket sötma. Fruktigt som sötsyrliga plommon och aningens kärnbeska. God men lite för söt.
Tried
on 16 Jan 2012
at 10:36
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle, kindly donated by jaghana - merci beaucoup! Hazy amber colour, large and creamy off-white head. Sourish-fruity nose. Full-bodied, lovely malty base with caramel and fruit, balanced by a timid but interesting sourness. Balanced off by some aromatic hops in the finish, the tongue is played with by a miscture of caramel and malty sweetness, fruity sourness and hoppy bitterness. Highly interesting and fascinating.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Oct 2011
at 10:52
5.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Color is nice, dark and a little red. Smell and taste are off. Spices in the smell. Taste is a little sour. Not very good in my opinion.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2011
at 00:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pretty much like the other Thiriez beers. Living mouthfeel. Decent smell and taste. Bit of a dry finish. I think this is my favorite beer from this brewery. Not great, not bad. Very decent and balanced beer. Not mindblowing in any aspect.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2011
at 09:56