La Dragonne
BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes) in Saignelégier, Jura, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.46
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Das gewürzige Bier kommt gänzlich ohne Kohlensäure daher. Während das Bier kalt noch ziemlich wässrig wirkt, zeigt die Erwärmung den gewünschten Effekt, das Bier wirkt voller und runder. Doch auch hier wirken die Gewürzaromen zum Teil künstlich und können nicht überzeugen. Künstlich ist so auch der Abgang, gewürzig aber nicht übermäßig aromatisch, deutlich anch Zimt. Geht so. /7/7/6/8/7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Dark brown with a medium beige head. Cellar in the aroma with roasted malt and spices. Flavour had anise, roasted malt, roasted malt and cellar notes. Finished sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From Ericandersnavy. Pours with a small off-white head and a brown body. Aroma of spice, chamomile and chocolate. Taste is grainy and spicy. Light bubbles.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750. Pours plain black with no apparent carbonation. Warmed to about 130. Sort of mulled wine aroma. Very sweet, with some spice and malt. Medium body with mild or no carbonation. Flavor is woody, mildy spicey, chocolatey, lots of darker things. It’s not at all sticky or sweet. Mayhap some cherry. Pretty much different from any beer I’ve ever had. There’s a little alcohol vapor that reaches the nose sometimes. Seems a decent drink to share with snow bunnies in the lodge.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Allen, thanks. Seved at cellar temp. Spicy aroma with coughing syrup. Cinnamon, anis, speculaas. No carbon. Also coughing syrup in the flavor, with the spices you would expect with such a brew. Licorice and speculaas. I have picked up a bad cold and this beer really helped a bit. Should have served it warm to boost the effect, though....
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
75 cL bottle, courtesy of Bov. Pours murky darkbrown with no head, no carbonation. Aroma is cinnamon, cardemomme, cloves and caramelish. Sweet caramelish and raisin fruity. Light dry spiceness. Lingering caramelish finish. Heated the spices come out more clearly with a note of cloves, some vanilla. Flavour is dry, mild raisin like and complex spiced - somewhat berry fruity too. Dry spiced flavoured into the finish. Subtle spiced, dry and complex.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle, 7%. At room temperature is has a mild cherry aroma, sweetish, berryish. Dark blood red colour, unclear. No head. The flavour is sweet with a distinct cinnamon aftertaste. Mulled, its aroma is a bit more pungent, not more pleasant, really. Same colour, of course, perhaps a bit of frothy head. The flavour is less sweet, a little bitter, seems to come from a sort of berry. The cinnamon flavour is a lot less noticable when the beer is hot.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cinnamon sticks and cloves and nutmeg bursting from the glass. Last time I smelled a beer like this is was one of the dark ones from Old Hansa in Tallinn. Way zesty spice, the malts are dark and fruity, but thin. Alcoholic warmth takes control late.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
A fascinating this. Like glüwein but drinkable. Intense combination of alpine spices and berries. We could not find a microweave oven as the label mentions so we used a standard microwave. Eight tasters loved it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
75cl bottle at 7%. This is a difficult review. I was very intrigued by what the label was asking us to do. They refer to it as a beer that one must drink very warm, and it is recommended as an after ski beer under the windy conditions of the bise wind in Switzerland. We drank this bottle after a day spent in alpage in the Fribourg Canton at 1500m under rain and small wind, which really got us chilled and ready for something warm. As soon as we opened the bottle, we noticed the light smell of Kraut (herbs used in many German style liquor or Swiss mountain liquors of the alpage) that emanated out of the bottle. We warmed the bottle to the required t° of 55-60 celsius. The kitchen started to fill with a nice herbal scent. Then came the pour, everyone loved the beer. It pours a blackish warm liquid that is very reminescent of what we call "vin chaud" or "warm wine" typical of winter season. No head, and a very original taste of mountain herbs and spices as wel as cinnamon. It quickly warms the body up. The beer gained in flavor after we put it in the water to a higher temperature. It was sugary, sweet and honey. I realy do not udnerstand some of the poor ratings, but again, some might never have had the chance of living in the Swiss mountain regions and udnerstand the concept of their warm herbal/spicy drinks that is so rightly explained on the bottle. Everyone who tried this beer loved it. It deserves its high rating for the style, and how BFM managed to capture the spirit of Swiss alpage-mountain and pack it in a bottle. This is a beer that we drank at the hot temperature, and that in no case would have gained such rating had it been cold or not served according to the label.