Blonde / Bière de Flandre / Originale (prev. St. Sylvestre Bière de Flandre)
Brasserie des 3 Monts / Saint-Sylvestre in Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel, Hauts-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Farmhouse - Bière de Garde Regular|
Score
6.37
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A refreshing ale with a strong character; its fruity taste comes from barley grown in the Nord department of France and its highly aromatic yeast, its bitterness from a specific variety of hops.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
0,75 l bottle, best before 27/3/2015. Crystal clear, pale golden yellow with a big, foamy, stable, white head. Nice citrusy aroma with hints of fermented white grapes. Refreshing taste of lemon, fermented white grapes and yeast with hints of vanilla and honey in the background. I even get some bananas after the beer warmed up. Slightly alcoholic and warming aftertaste with a light bitterness as in a Belgian tripel. Medium body with a mouthfeel that begins almost fizzy and ends creamy. Average carbonation. Overall a very refreshing and well balanced beer. How good must that be in the summer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2015
at 15:25
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Re-rating (previous 7.6) Review based on the BJCP2015 guidelines (style 24C, blonde). Bottle 33 cl - Batch L8137 22:05. AROMA: sweet malty and grainy aromas. slight herbal hop note. low to none esters and hop aromas. APPEARANCE: golden color and translucent. large white head with good retention. TASTE: sweet malty flavour with no esters discernible. low bitterness with a medium-dry and malty finish. no hop flavours. slight oxidation note. PALATE: medium body with high carbonation. alcohol warmth noticeable and smooth. OVERALL: a nice example of a traditional biere de garde.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2014
at 14:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
One of the most famous and classic bières de garde, with creamy, coarse, off-white head and pure golden colour, clear at first but hazy with deposit as expected, calm fizz. Aroma has something sweaty which at first disturbed me a bit, luckily it fades away after a while to reveal impressions of unripe peach, sour cream, apple juice, juniper berries, white bread, baker’s yeast, straw, gin, cooked potato and iron. Sweetish, rather delicate onset, apple, peach and pineapple, hint of iron but not really disturbing, soft mouthfeel, honeyish malt sweetness, smooth, with a finish of grassy hop bitterishness and wodka-like, warming alcohol, not very well hidden but not really disturbing either. In all, a pleasant beer and a fine introduction to the style.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2014
at 10:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
How: Bottle.
Where: Restaurant Grain d’Orge, Paris.
Appearance: Clear golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Fruit, hops, alcohol, malt.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet malt, alcohol, fruit, hops.
Where: Restaurant Grain d’Orge, Paris.
Appearance: Clear golden colour with a white head.
Aroma: Fruit, hops, alcohol, malt.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Sweet malt, alcohol, fruit, hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2014
at 10:30
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Bottle from Monoprix, Nice. Pale golden with a light lager style - it certainly doesn’t feel its strength. Has a fair carbonation and a frothy head. It’s certainly a notch above lager with a slight smoothness and a nice malt-hop taste, but it’s not that far removed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2014
at 08:02
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a golden color, toppd with a decent frothy white head. The aroma is mild, some malts and some fruity addition. The taste is bittery, but not unpleasantly. Some fruitiness towards the finish. One of the better biere de garde I had.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2014
at 01:24
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
75cl bottle. Golden with very big fluffy white head. Sweet malts, honey, some dough, fresh tropical fruits and light herbal notes. Quite sweet. Medium bodied and quite big alcohol presence. Not really that good, boring aroma and too much alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2014
at 02:17