La Cambrée d'Automne
Brasserie de la Lesse in Éprave, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Autumn|
Score
6.53
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Rubin77 (10150) reviewed La Cambrée d'Automne from Brasserie de la Lesse 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
F: big, tan, average retention. C: dark brown, hazy. A: malty, caramel, brown sugar, mellow fruity, bit cookies, fresh dark bread, bit herbal. T: malty, brown sugar, dark bread, caramel, fruity, toast, bit pear, actually not bad bit more yeasty notes but ok, medium body and carbonation, enjoyed, 0,33l bottle from Färm shop Chaussée de Wavre, Brussels.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
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Alengrin (11561) reviewed La Cambrée d'Automne from Brasserie de la Lesse 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Special and allegedly limited edition of La Cambrée "with certain things added" - though the label mentions nothing else than water, barley, hops, yeast and sugar, so I am left to wonder what this addition to the regular Cambrée might be. Quite a lot of pressure on the bottle but no gushing. Moussy, greyish white, lightly lacing, irregular head over a lightly hazy deep amber coloured beer with tiny dots of dead yeast dispersed throughout. Aroma is heavily impaired by a very strong smell of manure (what I euphemistically call FFF - freshly fermented farmland) and no matter how long I let the beer breathe, this off-putting ’slurry pit’ stench - though decreasing - keeps overpowering other impressions of redcurrant, overripe strawberry, salted fresh tomato, cranberry, caramel, soggy brown bread, fried egg, moldy hazelnut shells, red apple peel, old dried ginger, melting rubber and damp forest floor. Taste begins with sweetish peach, pear and fig hints paired with (somewhat more pronounced) sourish redcurrant and apple peel - actually not that bad in terms of balance; carbonation is medium, mouthfeel remains smooth and slick. Caramelly malt middle, sweetish, bready with a toasted edge, while these fruit esters continue along with spicy hints, but then that FFF-odour returns retronasally along with a strange strawberry-like flavor - perhaps this is the added ingredient? Finishes altogether ’dirty’ and messy, very yeasty, bready, with a soft earthy hop bitterish touch in the end and lingering caramelly maltiness, but also this lingering strawberry flavor (which is present in the regular Cambrée as well, albeit to a much lesser extent). I have no idea what the difference with the regular Cambrée is, but whatever it is, it must have ’imported’ some bacteria responsible for the manure-like smell, effectively ruining an otherwise fine (yet unexciting) Wallonian ale. Way too messy and aromatically off-putting, this is not a great success, I’m afraid.