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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8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Deep copper color with an enormous white head that melts gradually and leaves wonderful lacing. Aroma of sweet caramel and licorice. Flavor has good malts, caramel, butterscotch, dried fruits, and a dry, grassy finish. Complex and interesting, classic example of the style.
Tried
on 12 Jan 2010
at 18:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Location: 750 ml bottle from State Line, 12/5/09
Aroma: Nose has some lemon zest, some barnyard funk, orange, yeast, and spice
Appearance: Pours a cloudy light brownish-orange color with a huge fuzzy white head
Flavor: Taste has a medium sourness with spice malt flavors and some moderate bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium, slight alcohol warming, with a nice mouthfeel
Overall Impression: This is a really nice saison, one that works really nicely. Another great beer I grabbed on my trip to State Line, a trip that is still paying off for me months later. Anyway, I liked this one quite a bit.
Aroma: Nose has some lemon zest, some barnyard funk, orange, yeast, and spice
Appearance: Pours a cloudy light brownish-orange color with a huge fuzzy white head
Flavor: Taste has a medium sourness with spice malt flavors and some moderate bitterness
Palate: The body is light-medium, slight alcohol warming, with a nice mouthfeel
Overall Impression: This is a really nice saison, one that works really nicely. Another great beer I grabbed on my trip to State Line, a trip that is still paying off for me months later. Anyway, I liked this one quite a bit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2009
at 19:56
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle (from thebelgianbeershop.com). Slightly hazy orangeish golden colour with mediumsized creamy beige head. Aroma is fruity, yeasty, earthy with some slight notes of berries and alcohol. Flavour is quite much the same in a nice balance. Leaves a nice earthy/spicy/fruity aftertaste with some slight warming alcohol as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2009
at 13:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Strange (but nice) golden/pink color. Small head. Sour beer with strawberry tones and quite a lot of hops. In my opinion this beer is a little overhopped, i think the bitterness kills a lot of the nice complex flavors in the aftertaste. Nice though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2009
at 04:56
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7
750 ml bottle, corked and caged, from John’s Marketplace in Portland, OR. Loud bang, followed by cork hitting ceiling violently. Have not found the wire yet. Hazy orange gold color with a huge, foamy white head. The aroma is lightly spicy, lightly fruity, lightly sweat sox. Medium plus body with frothy, creamy carbonation. The flavor is vanilla, yeast, citrus, light stone fruit, and a light funk. It’s very smooth, very integrated, and very flavorful. It is so smooth compared to many saisons. It is deserving of the high ratings it has received.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Aug 2008
at 22:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
As soon as I loosened the cage there was a loud POP and the cage and cork shot about 6 feet into the air. It scared the hell out of me. Watch out! Not surprisingly it poured with a huge white head. Citrus, yeast and earthy, musty aromas. Flavors of citrus, yeast, spices. Light/medium body with prickly carbonation and a dry finish. A very good saison.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2008
at 17:32