Cuvée d'Oscar
Brasserie Craig Allan in Plessis-de-Roye, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijWheat Ale Regular
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Score
6.99
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This beer was inspired by the dark wheat beers or dunkelweisse of Germany. It is dark auburn with a huge off-white foam and emanates a sublime mix of tropical fruit aromas from the Nelson Sauvin dry hopping (mango and passion fruit) and clove and banana notes from the Bavarian yeast strain. The use of wheat malt to make up about half of the grist gives a slight acidity and bready feel. The finish is dry and reminiscent of dark, bitter chocolate.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep mahogany into a tulip. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface leaving spot lacing. Wheat, resin and tropical fruit aromas. Sour tropical fruit and caramel upfront turning to ripe banana and resin in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 22 Apr 2013
at 15:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, purchased in Paris, October 2011. Opaque brown with a tall but thin head. Sediment is visible on the side of the glass. I think very highly of De Proefbrouwerji, and this was a good, unusual beer with complexity. Aroma has yeast, light hops, and citrus. Flavor has some wheat sweetness, as well as more citrus, and dry malt and yeast. Dry, lightly bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2013
at 20:48
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Świetne Francuska interpretacja wheat Ale. Z specjalnie zaprojektowanej etykiety wyłania się chmiel bardzo intensywny Nelson Sauvin z Nowej Zelandii, do tego metoda Dry Hopping, wspaniale to wyszło, kolor piwa jak dziki Rodenbach z wielgachną piana, która stoji wiekami. Wspaniałe i treściwe w smaku, a finisz wytrawny i trochę kwaskowaty z lekką zawadiacką nutą alkoholową. Polecam.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2013
at 09:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
bottle either from Saveur-Biere of Village de la Bière Strasbourg. Cloudy brown colour, mid-sized beige head. Medium-bodied, lots of dark wheat malts and a yeasty touch, plus lovely Nelson Sauvin hops adding a fruity and very slightly resiny touch. An unusual beer brewed by a Scottish brewer living in France, brewed in Belgum with hops from New Zealand.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2012
at 03:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 c&c from La Cave à Bulles. Opens with a sigh. Pours hazy dark brown with a decent creamy beige head. Aroma of yeast and hop. Full bodied. Flavor is yeast/bread/hop. It really doesn’t taste like a wheat beer. It’s a Belgian that’s sort of earthy. The NS isn’t really standing out, but it’s certainly detectable. Maybe it is standing out. It’s revealing a fair amount of fruit. This is dry stuff, but imagine fruit spread thinly on dark bread. This stuff is redoubtable. Changes. Very flavorful.
Tried
on 12 Sep 2012
at 10:37
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at La Fine Mousse, Paris. Murky pale brown coloured, medium sized off-white head, yeast and hops in the nose. Moderate malty, fruity and light hoppy with hint of alcohol and spices near the end. Quite pleasant brew.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2012
at 16:20