Les Râteliers (Bell de Loing)

Microbrewery in Amilly, Centre-Val de Loire, France 🇫🇷

Established in 2003

Contact
ESAT - CAT (Centre d'Aide par le Travail) Les Râteliers, Rue Eugène Lacroix, Amilly, 45200, France
Description
The Brasserie des Râteliers produces noble craft beers of top fermentation, applying the techniques of Flemish master brewers. These beers are brewed, aged and packaged from Gâtinais malts by the team of workers from ESAT.

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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Muddy with tiny off white head. Sweet aroma with notes of roasted malt, dark fruits and caramel. Flavor is sweet with roasted malt, caramel and prunes and yeast. Ends sweet.
Tried on 09 Sep 2008 at 06:21

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of fiulijn. Hazy pale golden with a white head. Weak yeasty aroma. Light body with vague fruity accents and a finish without any real hoppiness. Unspectacular. 200608
Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2008 at 16:06

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of fiulijn. Hazy amber golden with a dense beige head. Spicy fruity nose. Quite full-bodied with plenty of yeast and fruity accents. Dry finish with quite some alcohol showing. 200608
Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2008 at 16:13

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy brown with small yeast floaties. Mild orange citric aroma, light roasted malt note too. Flavour is mild sour/citric yet solid embedded in a more classic caramel malt base. Certainly more vague than a flemish sour. Ends mild roasted and light bitter.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2008 at 03:30

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with a lacing white head. Mild orange peel and light spiced aroma. Mild lime flavour not too citric though. Light citric finish though. Ends dry and mild citric.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2008 at 03:17

3.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Hazy blond color. It has almost no aroma, and no flavor; very dry mouthfeel, harsh at the end; paper flavor. Useless.
Tried on 20 Jun 2008 at 14:58

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Cloudy brown color; creamy head. It has a good body, and quite good malt and chocolate flavor. Average bitterness. Maybe the yeast is too much, also because the bottle has been shaken, but it’s correctly brewed.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2008 at 14:55

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle at Le Sous Bock, Paris
Hazy golden color; poor head; the signature glass is very nice. It’s a very smple Ale, with a light residual sweetness, very ligh malt flavor and extremely light fruitness; maybe a trace of yeast; and nothing else.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jan 2008 at 16:23

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7
Stupenduously high, dense, white head over very pale lime-yellow beer. End of bottle fully opaque. Slightly spicey (coriander), perfumed, orange blossom and vanillaed dough. Very dry-citrussy, near tart taste. Slightly yoghurt-like, lactic notes. Actually, this is Berliner Weisse-like! No traces of coriander flavour. Despite the marked dryness, quite some refreshing qualities. Very slight acidburn. The representant was loathe to sell me this beer - because he didn’t like it himself!! For once that I LIKE a witbier, for Chrissakes! Perfect marriage between Berliner and witbier.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Sep 2006 at 11:24

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Fully hazy dark-amber to brown, with a small head, leaving lace. Gingerbread nose, bit smoked and lots of dark, but sweet malts, touch of licorice. Soft sweet, with a good lot of woodiness. Licorice flavour, especially retronasal, some yeasty esters. Finish is pure licorice. Medium to well-bodied, alcohol remains mainly hidden. Nowhere bad, but there’s no real uplifting item. The licorice flavour is too omnipresent in the taste (not really used as spice in here, it seems).
Tried on 17 Sep 2006 at 12:45