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 - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Mekong’s Beer tasting with Jerome on 01/20/2010. Served warm. Clear dark brown body with a small tan head. Sweet caramel, molasses, and fruit aroma. Sweet molasses, fruit, and dark caramel flavor. Medium full body with moderate carbonation. 7/4/7/4/16 - 3.8 6/17/2008 - 7/5/7/3/15 - 3.7 From fridge: Dark black body with a very thin frothy light brown head. Big spice aroma, cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie, light raisin and molassas. Big pumpkin pie, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, flavors, light molassas in the background and a honey finish. Full body with low carbonation. Warmed: More cinnamon aroma, ginger, the rest of the previous aroma is fairly muted. More light cinnamon and ginger flavors, the pumpkin flavors have dissipated. Body is thinner with the added heat. Overall, the cold version seems more complex and favorable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep brown into a mug. No head. Alcohol and cinnamon aromas. Flat caramel and spices with a lasting bitter finish. Pumpkin pie spices. Never had anything like it. Tastes like mulled cider and gameldansk.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Poured a deep black color ale with no head or hardly any carbonation. Aroma consists solely of honey and nutmeg. Taste is also dominated by some nutmeg with some sweet malt notes. I understand what they are trying to do but over spice beer that need to be served hot will never make a big impact on me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
scura schiuma ovviamente assente carbonatazione nulla bouquet molto forte decisamente speziato cannella su tutto anice miele arancia amara china? in bocca perde un poco a mio parere molto più facile da bere fredda anche non avendo molto corpo
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
A really good, interesting beer. It is good at room temperature and mulled. Either way, there is abundant spice. Some pumpkin, cinnamon, raison, and loads of black licquorice. No carbonation on this beer. Black, with malt flavor as well but I taste no hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Bov. Tasted first cold then mulled. Pours a hazy, dark brown with an orange hue and a small, rough head. Very spicy cardamom aroma. Medium body and rather flat. Very distinct flavours of cinnamon, cardamom and brown sugar. The alcohol really warms you up as the beer is heated. A very christmasy brew. 170707
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
I have had this bottle for a month now but eaglefan beat me to being the first US rater. Bottle is a bit colder than room temperature. I pop the top and there is no pop, funny how that saying goes. No smoke in the bottle as advertised on the label. I pour it into a mug, now this is weird in itself. Dark brown color and flat as an 8 year old asian girl. Aroma is present, smells like a raison rum cake. So mainly its sweet bready rum (sweet alcohol) aroma. Taste at first is off putting b/c its so un-beer-like. BUt after a few minutes you get used to it. Some licorice in it but again liquified rum cake. Some alcohol at the end of the flavor. Medium-light body with no bitterness. Now lets get it mulled up in here.
Going the microwave way right now. So I got two minutes to burn. My gf is talking with here dad about some boring stuff and he is drinking a MGD can, as there is an 18 pack sitting right next to me. So, no matter how this beer tastes its still better than Miller. Here is the beep, eww, too hot. The aroma got much stronger with the heat but I would describe it the same. I mean lots of sweet rummy raison alcohol, just reminds of alcohol rum cake, just right on the button. Oh, man, alcohol becomes so strong now. Its also hard to sip a hot alcoholic beverage, the alcoholic fumes get into your lungs. Maybe I just dont understand it (and I want to like it b/c I like everything this brewery makes). I mean I find this hard to actually drink. The heat mixed with the alcoholic fumes makes this really hard. I appreciate the effort and originality but I cant take it (but i dont regret spending the money).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
A dark red beer with no head. The aroma is sweet spicy combined with the notes of Danish Christmas cookies known as "brunkager". The flavor is of cloves and "brunkager".
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Brown color, no carbonation. Deep spicy aroma: pain d'epices (local gingerbread), cloves, nutmeg, light anis, cinnamon. The promises of the spicy nose are not maintained by the flavors, the body resulting to be lighter than expected and the palate is N/A. Sometimes similar to a Fernet Branca.
Do you want a hot digestive? try the wonderful China Martini.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottled. Beautiful mahogany colour. No matter if it is served cold or at 60ºC the aroma is overwhelming with cinnamon and sugar. It is extremely sweet with clean mouthfeel. Cold it is strangely reminding of a typical Swedish breakfast dish (risgrynsgröt med kanel och socker). Warm it is a nice, odd warimg drink, reminding of Austrian jägertee, luckily the outside temperature was -9ºC, so this was a suiting drink at the time I sampled it. I really love the way BFM is experimenting, even if I don't always love their beer.