Brasserie La Binchoise Embuscade

Embuscade

 

Brasserie La Binchoise in Binche, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular
Score
5.73
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 13
Inspired by an original cocktail particularly appreciated in Caen, in Normandy, the Embuscade reproduces the idea of a cocktail composed of a lager, white wine, calvados and blackcurrant.
 

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6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Blonde by La Binchoise, infused with calvados. Egg-white, cobweb-lacing, moussy and frothy head, misty pale straw blonde robe. Aroma of withering grass, jute bags, mugwort, white bread dough, clove, melon, wet flour, old dried lemon peel and a touch of apple but hardly calvados. Crisp onset, lively and minerally carbonation, fruity notes of halfripe banana, pineapple and green pear, sweetish but not overly so; supple, slick white-bready and grainy pale maltiness, ending with a grassy and somewhat zesty hoppiness, bitter but never harshly so, providing aspects of lemonbalm and field flowers against some phenolic spiciness. Again, the calvados that is supposed to be in here, remains all but unnoticeable - one can wonder what the point of it is, other than trying to be 'different' on an overcrowded market. A weedy, slender, somewhat messy blonde, that is what this basically is.

Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2021 at 19:13


5.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Clear reddish colour with no head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of jammy red fruit sweetness. The addition of Calvados seems to have been a waste.

Tried on 09 Aug 2019 at 18:51


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

20/09/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with jerre. Cloudy orange, huge foamy white head, nose is red fruit syrup, jam. Taste is sweet, red fruits, strawberry. Strange.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2018 at 10:03


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5

Rozerood helder bier met mooie schuikraag. Daar is het positieve wel mee gezegd want de smaak is frutig en ietwat zoet met een chemische bijsmaak. Geen idee wat het is maar zeker geen calvados. Heb het opgedronken maar, dat is positief, zal het niet nog een keer doen.

Tried on 27 Jan 2018 at 12:05


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

F: big, off-white, good retention. C: amber, hazy. A: black currants, bit lemon, bit apples, sugary. T: black currants, fruity, candy, raspberries, sugary, all this strange mixed together, not very drinkable but for tick ok, medium body, high carbonation, more like fruity beer not Belgian ale, 33cl bottle from Cora Woluwe-Saint-Lambert in Brussels.

Tried from Can on 29 Oct 2017 at 14:01


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Embuscade (by Brasserie La Binchoise):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 5/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 10/20, MyTotalScore: 2.8/5

29/VIII/15 - 33cl bottle @ Lambiekstoempers bierfestival - BB: n/a (2015-1132)

Clear orange to pinkish beer, creamy white head, stable, non adhesive. aroma :lots of apple juice, very sweet, sugary, raspberries as well. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet start, raspberries, some apple juice, sugary. Aftertaste: slightly bitter, very sweet and sugary, more raspberry jam. Very weird, all these raspberry flavours and aromas...

Tried from Bottle on 29 Aug 2015 at 14:12


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Anaranjada turbia, homogénea, bonito color. No mucha espuma. Aroma rico, frambuesa muy marcado. Ligera y bien de gas. Frutal, mínimamente ácida. Dulce. Algo empalagosa, pero curiosa. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tried on 11 Aug 2015 at 15:15


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

From a supermarket in Normandy. Pours a fairly clear orangey almost golden, topped with big and lasting white head. Aroma is pleasantly fruity, straighton black currant. Taste is sweet and fruity, apple liquer like. A bit citric in the finish. A bit weird but nice.

Tried on 05 Aug 2015 at 15:12


4.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Flaska från Saveur-bier. Tänk en äppelparfym spetsad med lite syren som möter en läkerolpastill med svartvinbärssmak så kommer du ganska nära. Tvåligt. Jag kan tänka mig en BW på Calvadosfat men om en blond med calvados inte blir så bra, hur skulle den kunna bli bättre med fruktjuice, svarrtvinbärs- och citronarom och citronsyra? Drickbar men inte mer.

Tried on 03 Apr 2015 at 15:48


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours clear blonde, nearly no , White head. Smell is Aplles, sweet, different than you’d think and not quite bad . very high carbo . Slightly dry , very sweet ( candy-like ) apples . Not terrible . Bit refreshing . Too bad for the sweet aftertaste ( artificial sugar ) .

Tried from Can on 12 Mar 2015 at 13:09