Monsieur Mouche
Brasserie des Eaux Vives in Romerée, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.81
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed Monsieur Mouche from Brasserie des Eaux Vives 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Spiced Walloon 'ambrée' from Romerée, a village southwest of Dinant in the Meuse valley; as an amateur entomologist, I could not ignore this one for its funny label alone. Thick, eggshell-white, 'Brugse kant'-like lacing, irregular and uneven-bubbled head on a cloudy copper-hued deep bronze robe. Aroma very herbal, reminiscent of anise, rosemary, lemon verbena, bergamot and even liquorice - clearly a lot of spicing was added here - next to old peanuts, cloves, bread crust, jute, tea, cold pea soup. Sweetish and sourish onset, the latter in a dull yet consistent way, seemingly pointing at onsetting infection; dried peach and banana peel notes, smooth peanutty and bread-crusty maltiness, rusk-like, remaining restrainedly sweetish. Quite a 'soupy' effect towards the end, cooked dark green vegetables, peas, kale even, but even this effect gets overruled by an overdose of herbality, again lemon verbena, aniseed and some liquorice, paired with a grassy hop bitterness. That sourish undertone remains till the end, even becoming very vaguely lemony, but largely absorbed by the sweetishness of the malts - it seems something went wrong here, this is not only overspiced but probably a bit infected as well, and the first may have been used to cover up the latter... Bizarre, I cannot say I enjoyed the beer as much as I enjoyed the label, I'm afraid.
Sebletitje (15832) reviewed Monsieur Mouche from Brasserie des Eaux Vives 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bouteille 33cl, BB 12/2023, lot# 004.
Ambrée, col fin crémeux blanc-cassé.
Arôme est de suite surprenant - épicé virant sur l'anisé, voire de bergamote rappelant un léger 'cola' plus une épice de poudre de clou de girofle voire un peu 'speculoos'. Le tout sur des effluves de malts torréfiés.
Palais est plaisant avec une belle approche des malts, entre biscuité, grillé, caramel, légère touche de sécheresse rehaussée de suite par une touche épicée qui apporte une sensation de fraicheur en bouche avec une fin vers le citronné-agrumes.
Plaisante, pourrait certainement bénéficier d'une belle mise en fût de rhum.
diabel (1874) reviewed Monsieur Mouche from Brasserie des Eaux Vives 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Hazy brown body. Lightly brown head. Nose of anis, malts, ... moderately bitter-sweet flavour.
Rubin77 (10150) reviewed Monsieur Mouche from Brasserie des Eaux Vives 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
F: medium, tan, good retention. C: dark brown, hazy. A: dark malts, caramel, fruity, dark bread crust, bit toffee, dried figs, honey. T: malty, caramel, bit toffee, dry on the palate, bit buttery, dried figs, bit roasted tones, medium to full body and medium carbonation, for such new brewery quite nice, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Cora Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels.