Especial Mars
Contreras in Gavere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Bière de Mars Spring|
Score
6.52
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In the past most breweries used to brew a 'March beer', a special beer that was brewed during spring. Brewery Contreras is one of the few breweries that still maintains this tradition. Brewed since 1898.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Contreras' Especial Mars (by Contreras):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
33cl, aged 1 year. Pours a dark orange to amber coloured beer. Pretty cloudy. Solid creamy off-white head. Smells a little dusty, ripe banana, figs and caramel. Full malty flavour, hints of caramel and wood. Ends a little acidic, but this might be the age (1y). Aftertaste is mostly caramel and roasted malts. Very little bitterness, again a little acidic finishing touch.
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
33cl, aged 1 year. Pours a dark orange to amber coloured beer. Pretty cloudy. Solid creamy off-white head. Smells a little dusty, ripe banana, figs and caramel. Full malty flavour, hints of caramel and wood. Ends a little acidic, but this might be the age (1y). Aftertaste is mostly caramel and roasted malts. Very little bitterness, again a little acidic finishing touch.
Tried
on 02 May 2010
at 03:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Provdatum: 2009-03-12, bottle, Göteborg God god Belgare sour fruitiness, hops, a bit much alcohol, orange peel
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2010
at 16:58
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden amber. Aroma and taste are flowers, malt, fruits, yeast and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2009
at 14:56
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Utobeer market stall. Pours a cloudy orange with a white head. Aromas of caramel, citrus notes, malts, quite acetic, herby. Herby, grassy, sweet, acidic flavours. Unusual. Sweet, malty and hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2009
at 09:03
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cloudy dark golden with a medium sized off-white head. The aroma has a lot of unfermented wort or heavy, bready malt. I’m not a fan of that. Flavour is sweet and fruity, with spicy yeast notes, but a little on the cloying sweet side. A real shame since it’s such an inviting yeast character.
Tried
on 18 Jun 2009
at 21:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
33cl bottle @ VinensVerden, Odense. Pours cloudy orange with a small creamy white head and lacings. Nose is pleasant and inviting of yeast, excotic fruits, spices and hops. Sweet and spicy. Orange peel and coriander. Full bodied. Smooth and quite sticky. A fine drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2009
at 13:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy dark golden color with a small longlasting white head. Has a malty spicy yeasty aroma withsome hints of citrus. Swetish malty yeasty flavor with some hints of citrus. Has a sweetish malty yeasty spicy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2009
at 05:33
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
[330 ml bottle] Aroma is of citrus, the color is cloudy orange, with a lot of foam. Taste of herbs, yeast and a bit of hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2009
at 18:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. Orange with a yellowish head. Sweet fruit and yeast aroma. Refreshing belgian but a bit thin and not very complex, almost like a blond ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2009
at 04:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle) Hazy amber colour with huge, beige head leaving traces of lacing. Fruity, malty nose with apricots, grapefruit, citrus peel, flowers and yeast. Fruity, malty taste with notes of citrus (grapefruit and orange), dried apricots and spicy, citrussy hops in the finish. Medium body, rather sweet. Nice and well made beer. In short: spicy citrus on solid malt foundation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2009
at 17:14