Belle & Forte Amber
Brouwerij La Fontaine in Sas van Gent, Zeeland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Brewed at/by: De GraalBelgian Style Regular Out of Production
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6.00
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chrisv10 (24620) reviewed Belle & Forte Amber from Brouwerij La Fontaine 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle, 7%. Clear dark amber with small tan head. Aroma is malt, caramel, anise and other spices. Flavour is malt, caramel, anise, spices, cinnamon, medium sweet and a little bitter.
Rasmus40 (37098) reviewed Belle & Forte Amber from Brouwerij La Fontaine 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Hazy reddish amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel and spicy - cinnamon. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. 060413
saxo (29778) reviewed Belle & Forte Amber from Brouwerij La Fontaine 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are spices, caramel, fruits, malt and hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl, lot 12042, BB 08-2013. Ambrée avec une légère brume de levure vers mi bouteille, col beige. Arôme rappel de suite une bière de Noël du moins dans le style très américain utilisant les épices. Je note des pointes de cannelle, de girofle, le tout restant herbacé comme un pain d’épice avec des notes de veilles herbes. En bouche, premières impressions sont d’une bière épicée au profile festif, le palais est sec avec des notes d’épices qui rendent le tout intéressant. Sans cet ajout, je crains que cette dernière ne tombe dans ce style typique belge. Malt reste discret avec une brève pointe de houblon laissant juste ce qu’il faut pour un léger côté citronné en amertume.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Label mentions it being brewed in Brakel, which means De Graal. Full name is Belle & Forte Amber Beige head, slowly dwindling over fully hazy dark amber-brown beer. Sharpish spicy nose: clove (even eugenol), liquorice, cinnamon, but also American hops. Pretty imposing aroma, not necessarily inviting. Again sharp bitterish-spicy flavour; typical spiceoils (eugenol, cinnamonoil, allspice, etc.) Traces of hop, malts present. Feels overcarbonated, very fizzy. Alcohol- and spicesburn. Quite slick, well bodied. I’d qualified this as a typical spiced Christmas warmer. That the blurb calls it "thirstquenching" is something of a hooter. And Sas van Gent - the new francophone enclave in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen?
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Belle & Forte Amber from Brouwerij La Fontaine 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Imported from my RateBeer account as La Fontaine Belle & Forte Amber (by Brouwerij La Fontaine):
Aroma: 5/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.7/5
20/V/2012 - 33cl bottle from De Hopduvel (Gent) @ home - BB: VIII/13 (2012-530)
Bit cloudy red brown beer, big aery beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: band-aid, ripe to overripe fruits, some raisins. MF: lots of carbon, medium body. Taste: bit malty, dried fruits, bitter hops, some mocha, bit herbal, little sugary, overripe fruits. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, hoppy, alcohol warming the throat, herbal, overripe banana. Not my cup of tea. Didn't get any of the American hops.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Belle & Forte Amber from Brouwerij La Fontaine 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sampled @ KBC Festival Den Bosch 2012. Clear orange / red color, small white head. Smell malts, herbs, spices. Taste malts, herbs, spices, slightly bitter hints. Low to medium carrbonation, low body.