Les Gilles
Gipsy Hill Brewing Company in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Collab with: Villages BreweryBelgian Style - Dubbel Special Out of Production
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Score
6.24
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DESCRIPTION
Les Gilles is a complex, well-balanced Belgian dubbel, with a malt base comprising nine different grains and a specialist Trappist ale Belgian yeast strain. Aged on sour cherries for a subtle stone fruit lingering flavour at the end.
Artwork: The Village brothers, Louis and Archie have set up their own brewery in Deptford. We hope this is our first of many collabs with these guys.
BEER INFO
Style: Dubbel
ABV: 6.5%
Aroma Hops: N/A
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Adjuncts: Sour Cherries
Malt: Maris Otter, Wheat, Torrefied Wheat, Oats, Naked oats, Abbey, Carared, Melanoiden
Allergens: Gluten (Barley, Oats, Wheat)
Sold as: Keg
Availability: One off brew
Les Gilles is a complex, well-balanced Belgian dubbel, with a malt base comprising nine different grains and a specialist Trappist ale Belgian yeast strain. Aged on sour cherries for a subtle stone fruit lingering flavour at the end.
Artwork: The Village brothers, Louis and Archie have set up their own brewery in Deptford. We hope this is our first of many collabs with these guys.
BEER INFO
Style: Dubbel
ABV: 6.5%
Aroma Hops: N/A
Bittering Hops: Magnum
Adjuncts: Sour Cherries
Malt: Maris Otter, Wheat, Torrefied Wheat, Oats, Naked oats, Abbey, Carared, Melanoiden
Allergens: Gluten (Barley, Oats, Wheat)
Sold as: Keg
Availability: One off brew
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Tried
on 02 Dec 2022
at 07:35
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
24/8/2018. Bottle. Pours slightly hazy amber copper colour with a bubbly off-white head. Aroma of sour fruit, caramel, biscuit, resin, flowers and plasticine. Moderate sweetness, light bitterness. Moderate body, slight oily texture, average to soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Aug 2018
at 21:13
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Clear caramel golden color with an off white layer head on top. Some lacing. Moderate intensity in the aroma. Medium body and an average carbonation level. Good balanced sweetness versus acidity. A bit to fruity flavor. Also yeast, bready and toffee in the flavor.
[Tap at Ale House in Chelmsford, England]
Brewery #1671
[Tap at Ale House in Chelmsford, England]
Brewery #1671
Tried
from Draft
on 11 May 2017
at 10:09
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
From keg at Ale House, Chelmsford, shared with Cunningham. Dark orange body, misty. Low beige head, dotted spots. Caramel and dark fruity nose. Taste of caramel, Belgian yeast, bread and dark fruits, jam-like impression. Mid-sweet brown malt-fruity ending. Well bodied. Likable (17.02.2017).
Tried
on 27 Feb 2017
at 13:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle at home, 18/02/17. Clear golden amber with a well appointed light beige head. Nose is sweet fruit esters, pineapple chunks, toffee, fruit loaf, light spice trail. Taste comprises dates, light peppery spice, fruit cake, figs, dried fruits, toffee, almonds, toasted brown sugar, biscuit. Medium + body, fine to prickly carbonanaiton which eases drinkability, sweet and bitter close with a light boost. Decent well balanced dubbel, doesn’t get too sweet or cloying.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2017
at 17:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml bottle on 14th Feb 2017 in ’Knowles of Norwood’. Thought this would be a sour puss before I purchased it, being allowed to read the label before buying. Turned out to be anything but and the ’sour cherries’ must have been devoured by the Belgian yeasts or something. I found it malty and fairly sweet, liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2017
at 06:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at home picked up from Offie and Toffee. A mostly clear reddy copper coloured pour with a lasting beige froth. Aroma is sweet nutty toffee, hint of liquorice, sweet rustic brown bread, strawberry jam. Hint of rounded vanilla on the nose. Flavour is composed of layered sweet malts, toffee, nutty caramel brown bread, mellow yeast character, little esters. Palate is medium sweet, pillowy, moderate carbonation, medium bodied. Little woody rustic finish,
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2017
at 16:21
Tried
on 31 Jan 2017
at 16:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home in London - sourced from Eebria Bermondsey. Pours clear copper-red with a small, foamy white topping. The aroma holds some dried berries, Belgian yeast, caramelised sugars. Light to medium sweet flavour with pleasant candied cherries, some bready malts, candi sugars, leathery berries, a little seedy bitterness. Medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Lightly drying on the finish, with more seedy bitterness, ripe berries, bread, faint caramel, understated cherry bites. Not bad overall. Interesting take.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2017
at 18:40
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
2nd January 2017
Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is light, fairly dry and has mild crispness. Light thin malts, mildly sweet. Fair bit of esters. Very mildly sour generic fruits. Light finish. Esters linger on. Mmmm - pretty estery and quite thin, cherry is muddled. All in all - quite clunky.
Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Palate is light, fairly dry and has mild crispness. Light thin malts, mildly sweet. Fair bit of esters. Very mildly sour generic fruits. Light finish. Esters linger on. Mmmm - pretty estery and quite thin, cherry is muddled. All in all - quite clunky.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2017
at 10:34