Top fermented cherry beer made with cherry coulis and extracts. Off-pink, thick, moussy head, bright ruby red colour, clear. Aroma dominated by a full, ’heavy’, sweet cherry smell (strong impression of candied cherries, as used in pastry and the like) but also rubbery and plastic-like solvents, DMS (cooked vegetable), mushrooms, honey, lemon. Fruity, slick palate, getting more sweet in the middle, sugary and cloying with light sourish touch, virtually no discernible hops, one-sided; and worst of all, the sugary sweetness sticks in the throat. Not for me.

25 cl. bottle @ home. Procured from Carrefour. BBF 27/09/2014. Pours a paler ruby amber with a vanishing off-white head. Nose is incredible this basically smells exactly like a bag of cherry – and some other flavours – gelatine candy. That is pretty incredible to be honest my impression fluctuates between that of pure childlike amazement and that of being slightly grossed out. Taste however sadly doesn’t live up to the promise, the gelatine candy is still there but way too weak, lots of sugar water is dissolving the flavour, faint malts and jelly beans, touch iron, hint herbs, watery artificial sweeteners finish. Overall a bit watery. Almost a minor embarrassment by even these sweetened candy beers, to bad that it started out promisingly.

Bottle @ home shared with Dutchdrebus. Slightly unclear red color, small off-white head. Smells just like an amandel stuffed cookie. Yuk. Taste is sweet with some sweetish fruity influences that appear chemical and artificial. A bit fizzy carbonation, low to medium body.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Fagnes Griottes (by Brasserie des Fagnes):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 4/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 7/20, MyTotalScore: 2.2/5

5/VI/13 - 25cl bottle from Comptoir des Fagnes (Couvin, BE) @ home - BB: 30/I/14 (2013-532)

Clear bright red beer, big rocky white head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sugary, chloride, cherry candy, bit metallic. MF: ok carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sweet sugary start, little bitter, cherry candy, bit lemony. Aftertaste: very sugary, cherry candy, bit lemony, slightly bitter.

From BA in November 2008: Small brown bottle (25cl), glad it wasn’t a bigger one, nearly couldn’t finish this titchy one. Poured into my La Chouffe tulip glass it looked OK, a reddy brown, clear and bright body with a big, light pink foaming head. The head fell to a wispy covering a bit to quickly for my likeing, but first impressions were fine. The aroma was of sweet cherries and almonds, in fact a Bakewell Tart sort of smell, interesting if not overaly beery. Oh dear, it tasted like it smelled, a sweet cherry alco-pop. It was a thin watered down syrup and one for the kids or ladies who like a sicky drink. The beer got worse as it warmed, I started to look for excuses to lower my original scores. It was almost undrinkable towards the end. It did however look and smell worth the effort, so my scores didn’t alter, many on here wouldn’t be so kind, I feel.

The bottle looks simple, nothing special. Beer in the glass light red, huge head. Starts very, very sweet, like syrup. Tastes like lemonade. Very drinkable but not really with joy.