Entering old rates. From the CCB Launch Party March 2009. Cuivrée, col blanc léger. Arôme malt caramel, grille avec des notes fruitées et houblonnées allant vers l’agrume. Palais est similaire, note malt caramel et grillé le cèdre reste en retrait et donne un léger profile épicé discret. Cela se recoupe avec une amertume légère d’agrumes et note d’orange.

On tap at the OTH launch party pouring dirty brown with gold – copper like edges and micro thin white head. The aroma initially reminds me of bubbling caramel malty wort. I get lots of caramel and roasty malts and then moving into fruity notes like dark grape juice mixing with mild citrus sweet tangelo and molasses. The taste initially seems like cold wort as well with sweet malts, roasted malts, molasses and caramel. To midway the flavor slowly moves into mild dry roasty malt astringency mixing with a light amount of pine, grassy hops, a hint of sweet grape juice and then a touch of grainy malts and molasses. The caramel runs from the front to the back of the flavor. I got very little, if any, cedar notes.