Jenlain Ambrée
Brasserie Duyck in Jenlain, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
6.36
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A high fermentation beer, Jenlain Ambrée is one of the first specialty beers in France and is been brewed since 1922. It owes its success to its inimitable taste stronger than all fashions. Its copper color, its aromas of cooked fruit and caramel make it a beer widely recognized for tasting but also a perfect ally for cooking.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
750 ml bottle in Paris, 2006. Decent amber color, fast fading head. Good amber malt aroma, slightly roasted and dry. A bit nutty. Taste is very dry, hoppy, with really good roasted malt taste. A great amber flavor. Grassy, earthy. A dry finish that last quite a long time. Really good. Medium body and carbonation. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Dec 2008
at 07:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750 ml bottle, corked and caged, from John’s Marketplace in Portland, OR. Nice reddish copper color with a huge beige head. Aromas of caramel hop and mild spicey hop. Medium body with loosely creamy carbonation. Flavor is definitely mild caramel, with really laidback hop. Suggests berries in the background. Far background. Agree that it resembles an ESB, but probably needs more florality. Except for the absence of smoke, it reminds of Adelscott. I think there is a baseline of French ales that has the smooth, mild maltiness of an ESB, but varies the flavors from floral hop. Finish is very pleasing. Perhaps the hop is a spicy noble?
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 19:50
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap @ De Geuzen. Amber coloured beer, white head. Aroma of malts, caramel. Taste is very sweet, very malty, caramel. I’m not into amber beers and this one doesn’t change that. Way too malty and sweet for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2008
at 14:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Appearance: Dark brown, redish. Little head - more when warmer. Little bubbles. Aroma: Malty, very fruity. Raisins. Taste: Pretty malty, not that fruity. Info: 750ml bottle, 18/3-2006, 91/300, 53/500
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jun 2008
at 12:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
750ml bottle from A branch of Champion, La Tremblade, France. Reddish-amber with a decent off-white head. Aroma of red fruit, caramel and earthy hops. Flavour was sweetish with some warming alcohol in the finish. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2008
at 15:00
4.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Sampled from a 750 ml green bottle this beer poured a vivid caramel amber color with a huge orange-white head that lingered. The aroma was lightly skunky, malty and lightly sweet. The flavor was bitter, tangy, odd and skunky. There was something weird in here that I could not identify over the skunk. Not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jun 2008
at 19:24
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Large bottle, Casino supermarche, Cannes. Reddy amber colour with a dissipating small white head. Aroma is sweetish with some spice, malt and fruit evident. Flavour is similar with a vaguely nutty malt finish. Steady enough brew although was getting a little weary of it as I ploughed through the king size bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2008
at 10:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
75cl bottle. Pours dark amber with a creamy white head. Aroma & taste is of malts, caramel, spices & some citric/earthy notes. Medium filling palate. Overall quite sweet. . . and far from superior Biere de garde - quite drinkable though!
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2008
at 12:37
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Very good, yellowish head, irregular, over foxy-orange beer. Parsley, bit of caramel, light-coloured malts. Also a nice, deeper smell of fir- or pinewoods, that I do not recall from earlier days. Light piney touch on a rather thinnish beer, characterized by the caramel/toasted malts. Maybe just a touch of diacetyl (!), and the parsley - generally sweet. Alcohol enhances just the lightly burning MF. Rather thinnish, but quite slick. The ubiquitous BdG, the icon that survived. It might have never ranked amongst my topfavourites, I would never call this poor.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2008
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle ay home... Thanks to Toni for this ... Copper with a big foam head ... spicy hop with some caramel ... sweet fruity quite juicy little spice ... little grapefruit ... little candy suger.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2008
at 13:45