Les Râteliers (Bell de Loing)
Microbrewery in Amilly, Centre-Val de Loire, France 🇫🇷
Established in 2003
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Nice head, rather solid, body is brown to be sure.Aroma is barley and alcohol combining to have a bit of a nutty flavour. Taste is a typical Belgian stout, lots of barley that’s spiced up with alcohol creating a very average, but still palatable, taste. Just okay.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Decent amber body with that typical murky fog and a fair amount of head. Aroma of spicy malts, sharpness from alcohol perhaps. Taste is grass and malts and water, a modest mess, watery as usual and unbalanced. A typical French microbrew.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Foggy yellow colour, decent head. Aroma of corn and some alcohol. Taste is a mix of cereal and bread, very light on the tongue, some alcohol. Lacks complexity; smooth with some citrus. Okay, I guess, not great.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Beautiful big fluffy head, nice yellow-white body. Aroma of old shoes and beef jerky, and other heavily salted meat products. Taste is mowed grass and water, perhaps some detergent perfume in the aftertaste. Sorry, this is a witbier that just isn’t witty enough to make it.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 750ml.Unclear - hazy medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, fruity, lemon, coriander. Flavor is moderate sweet and light citrus acidic with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20100410]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 750ml.Hazy medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, moderate yeasty, spicy - coriander, apricot notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100410]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
75 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is citrusy and slight spiced, wheaty too. Citrusy, wheaty and mild yoghurt. Milky and citrusy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
75 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is herbal and mild wheaty. Yeasty and phenolic. Dry and mild spiced. Bitter and dry finish.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Tasting at Papsø
Cloudy blond color.The aroma is mild but well built: herbs, citrus fruits, yeast, honey, spices. Dry and weak mouthfeel, light spicy wheat beer, with a rather citrusy final. Acceptable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Tasting at Papsø
Cloudy blond color. Light aroma of plastic, herbs, honey, phenol. Dry mouthfeel, honeyish flavor. Strange, it’s like a mix of Witbier and honey.