Bisous M'chou
Brasserie La Binchoise in Binche, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special|
Score
6.57
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Grumpelmies (1741) reviewed Bisous M'chou from Brasserie La Binchoise 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Cloudy orange with a big white head. Aroma of oranges, grapefruits, yeast and juniper. Taste of grains, oranges, straw, grapefruits, spices, yeast, zest and juniper with herbal and floral hops. Moderate bitterness. Low to medium carbonation. Ok even if it’s a little bit tame and restrained.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Bisous M'chou from Brasserie La Binchoise 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Blonde spiced with juniper berries from the Binchoise brewery, seemingly aimed at youngsters; longneck bottle from a pack of regional beers bought at Bois du Cazier near Charleroi. Initially towering high, very foamy, loudly fizzing, off-white, uneven-bubbled but loosely knit and quickly collapsing head, after all that noise leaving behind a medium-sized, irregular, open ring; misty pale yellow-golden robe with lots of refined sparkling, tunring cloudy and a bit deeper apricot-tinged in the end. Perfumey aroma of indeed dried juniper berries and quite dominantly so, soggy white bread, roses, lilacs and even jasmin blossoms, pine-scented air freshener, honey, pineapple, lavender, yuzu, earthy old potato note. Spritzy onset, overcarbonated even for this style, painfully numbing and distracting from the flavour; after a while, fruity notes of pineapple, sweet red apple and ripe apricot appear, sweet and soft, continuing over a sweetish brioche-bready and cereally maltiness; relatively thinnish body for the given ABV. The perfumey aspect of the juniper berries comes to full fruition even before the finish, in a weirdly lavender-like, resinous, ethereal way; the wryness this ingredient can bring, initially remains very limited. Instead a very 'rosy', herbal and flowery effect dominates retronasally, while a grassy hop bitter note develops and lots of minerality - coming from that overcarbonation - remain as one of the last impressions after swallowing, along with long-lingering juniper herbaceousness - and, at last, wryness. I have nothing against a subtle use of juniper berries in certain foods (like German Sauerkraut, for instance) but please keep them out of my beer: I had several juniper berry-flavoured spice ales before and liked literally none of them. This one, on top, has a rather feeble structure, overly sharp effervescence, too much residual sweetness and an exaggerated juniper effect to the point where the aroma becomes bizarrely perfumey - needless to say that this Bisous M'Chou is almost hilariously incapable of changing my mind about juniper berries in beer. My second overspiced Walloon ale tonight - I ingested enough spices and herbs for more than just a few days, I think...
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Bisous M'chou from Brasserie La Binchoise 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle from Comptoir des Fagnes beer store near Couvin in Belgium. F: medium, egg-white, good retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, floral, spicy, light citrus fruity, caramel touch. T: medium malty base, bready, bit citrus, spicy touch, medium carbonation, bit more on the sweet side, yet not bad, enjoyed.
bier4der (3351) ticked Bisous M'chou from Brasserie La Binchoise 5 years ago