La Moneuse
Brasserie de Blaugies in Blaugies, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.26
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La Moneuse is named for A. J. Moneuse (b. 1768), a famous local bandit and gang leader, and ancestor of the brewers’ family. It is a classic "saison" beer by virtue of its strength and its earthy, aged quality. It has a hardy, semi-dry malt character, a fresh but not overpowering hoppiness, abundant yeasty, fruity flavors and a fairly strong, but pleasant and enticing mustiness.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at 1st CBC Sunday Tasting. Thanks to Paul. At least five years old, likely more. Pours slightly hazy amber with a ghostly, white head. Bit of honey and aged malts on the nose. Medium sweet flavor, honey, toast, light fruits, toasted sugars. Medium bodied with lively carbonation. Slight dry finish, toasted sugars, bready malts. Very good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2011
at 08:18
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ 9th Rencontre des Brasseries du Luxembourg Belge. Ambrée/orangée, col beige. Une saison au profile malté, grains, sec en bouche, note de caramel avec en arrière une très légère amertume. Une saison que je trouve un peu trop sèche en bouche, le tout sur un profile restant houblonné laissant un fini citronné. A réessayer.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2011
at 02:42
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle from Tanakaya. Big barnyard and hop aroma, cat piss, apples, lemon, hay, bread. Deep golden with a high, thick,fine head. Dry, clean, hoppy flavor with underlying honey and bread. Grass, hay, some mint, and rather dry bitterness that lasts a long time. Light body, clean, crisp. Hides the booze well. Good hops. Dig it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2011
at 02:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Green bottle, 75 cl, best before end 2009, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on July 24 2010; eye: golden, clear, good effervescence, nice thick sheet of white head, average lacing; nose: yeast, light fruity, slight pepper; mouth: yeast, light fruity, slight pepper, dry finale in acridness and presence of yeast, medium body, rather carbonated, slightly sweet, slick texture; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille verte, 75 cl, meilleure avant fin 2009, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 24 juillet 2010; œil : dorée, claire, bonne effervescence, couverture de mousse blanche épaisse, dentelle moyenne; nez : levure, léger fruité, très léger poivre; bouche : levure, léger fruité, très léger poivre, finale sèche avec une légère âcreté et présence de levure, corps moyen, plutôt carbonatée, très légèrement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : ordinaire
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jul 2010
at 09:58
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
750 mL bottle, pours hazy orange with a huge white head. Fruity esters dominate the nose, with yeast and citrus. Flavour of spices, light fruity esters, and yeast. Highly carbonated and a crisp finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2010
at 20:19
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750 corked bottle poured into tulip. To my disappointment, I realize I have bought a green-bottled beer. I didn’t even notice until I poured my first glass. What the hell is wrong with these supposedly world-class brewers? Do they not know any better? Green/clear glass = skunk! Come on now! I know this as an amateur homebrewer. How is it that these breweries with centuries-old brewing traditions don’t? A definite skunk odor is apparent as soon as I pop the cork. I’m hoping this will go away after it sits a bit, so wait.........okay it’s mostly gone after about 5 minutes or so, but still lingering in the background. What remains is a dusty, fruity, old-smelling beer, with a faint Brett tang. Pours a hazy golden amber with a large retaining head with some sediment floating around in the glass. Lace is alright. The taste is very average, as well. It’s kind of bland. It’s a moderately sweet beer with no bitterness and just a faint tang. Carbonation is pretty high. Body is full. A somewhat interesting barnyard-like aftertaste is apparent. Overall, it’s hard to see why this beer gets such a higher ranking than the clearly superior beer I had before this, Avery’s Fifteen. I think if I had this at the brewery from a tap rather than from a green bottle it would probably impress me. Instead, what I have here is a bland beer in which the bottler’s choice in glass clearly marred my experience in enjoying this. One other final note: this bottle was like a slow-moving geyser. From the time I popped the cork until about 20 minutes into drinking the damn thing, foam was spilling over the lip of the bottle constantly. I had to set the bottle on a dish towel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2010
at 01:28
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sampled on tap at Max’s Belgian Fest. Pours a translucent, purple, amber with a creamy white head. Nose is sugary, sweet, malty, yeast, sticky fruits. Flavor is the same with some vinous fruits, candy sugar. Medium bodied. Very nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2010
at 16:08