75 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is bretty fruity and slight leathery. Smooth fruity. Lingering peachy and slight grapefruity. Smooth fruity finish.

Bottle, 7%. Clear amber with big off-white head. Aroma is malt, brett, fruit, oak, hop and a little lemon. Flavour is malt, fruit, brett, little almond, little lemon, little sweet, little dry, hop and medium bitter.

Bottle. Creamy White good mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy slightly sour aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Week sour moderate bretty notes. Creamy palate.

The French Oak version in this series, with the same basic recipe as the American Oak version with which I am comparing it. It has the same look, but the colour is darker, more full orange. Aroma comparable to the American Oak, inviting and pleasant with exotic fruitiness and woodiness, but strikingly, this one is a lot less sweet in the nose, with a lot less of the vanilla impressions the American Oak version has. Same story in the mouth: though basically the same beer, it shows considerably less vanilla, less sweetness and a bit more acidity, but in the same subtle and elegant way. Finishes almost the same. Dryer, less vanilla-like, less sweet and actually very close to Orval (except for the woodiness), if this is to be taken as a reference. And why not take Orval as a reference to an amber coloured, Brett-fermented Belgian ale of 7% ABV...

@ Camping Ratebeer, orange beer, more sour than the american wood, less wood taste/aroma, hmm

Bouteille 75cl. Orangée, col fin beige crémeux. Arôme offre une dominance de brett procurant ainsi ce bouquet typique que l’on retrouve quasi partout maintenant et qui est dès lors frappant dans cette série par la nature de ce bouquet fruité offrant tjrs ce côté abricot. Le bénéfice du boisé français reste en retrait avec un accompagnement malté basique de pils. Palais offre, ici aussi, le même caractère de brett que sur les autres versions. Note ce fruité d’abricot, léger brett tout comme le bois. Pointe d’amertume restant toujours dans le noble. L’idée aurait été mieux de faire un boisé français mais avec un houblon français, pareil pour les autres versions. Là on s’ennuie un peu. Amertume est noble et le caractère malté ne convainc pas plus.

Bottled @ Camping Ratebeers 2014, small sample. Quite typical belgian blonde with Brett notes, though not much pronounced. French is second best, with more oak wood and slight vinous almost. Decent stuff.

Bottle shared @ Camping Ratebeer. Clear orange color, decent sized off-white head. Smell and taste malts, a hint of alcohol, slightly a hint if herbs or spices, a hint of wood indeed. Well, overall I’m not really impressed.

Bottle @ camping ratebeer 2014. Clear golden colour with a medium to large white head. Smells sourish, dusty, herbs. Tastes sweet and a hint of sour, fresh, slightly dusty. Nice. Medium body, medium carbo.

Bottle. Hazy amber liquid with medium white head. Aroma of barnyard, wood, raw sugar, dried fruit and lemon. Taste is light sweet and light bitter with notes of wood, dried fruit and barnyard. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. OK but woody.