Brasserie de Franchimont

in Franchimont, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2017

Contact
Rue de la Chinelle 7a, Franchimont, 5600, Belgium
Description
La Brasserie de Franchimont vous propose ses bières artisanales de haute fermentation, refermentées en bouteille. Non filtrées et non pasteurisées.

Married for 20 years and parents of 3 young daughters, my wife Kathalyn and I decided to start in the creation of a micro-brewery. Currently, we produce and market 4 beers (1 blond, 1 amber, 1 stout and 1 IPA) and we work on a contract basis for customers who do not have the necessary equipment. Our beers are called Chinelles, named after the stream that borders our brewery!

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6.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
My first beer from this interesting new Walloon craft brewery, thanks to my girlfriend Goedele. Very extreme gusher, I could not prevent losing about 1/3 to the sink, pity... Anyway, moving on: very thick, foamy, snow white, cobweb-lacing, large-bubbled head on a cloudy peach blonde beer with 'dirty orangey' tinge. Aroma initially dominated by prickling carbon dioxide but this fades quickly as usual, making room for impressions of warm white bread, freshly cut red apples, old orange peel, honey-glazed carrot, soggy rusk, pear juice, clove, sweetclover and a fortunately vague whiff of background DMS. Spritzy onset, very fizzily carbonated, estery fruitiness reminiscent of red apple, peach and banana, sweetish with a soft and 'fluffy' bready maltiness continuing this restrainedly sweetish effect towards a more spicy finish with the carbon dioxide still tingling along; notes of clove and even aniseed turn up, along with a floral and bit earthy hop bitter note and lots of lingering fruity and eventually somewhat 'dirty' yeastiness. Dryish in the end, with enough spritziness and spiciness to qualify as a (classically styled) saison, too bad for the heavy gushing though. Not bad.
Tried on 26 Aug 2020 at 12:13

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
33cl bottle from 5th beer festival Carrément Bières in l’Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville in Belgium. F: huge, tanned, good retention with slow manageable gusher. C: black, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, dark dried fruits. T: rich dark malty, bit coffee, dark chocolate, caramel, bit earthy, dry on the palate, bit spicy, higher carbonation bit disturbing, ok no real flaws here but nothing special.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2019 at 19:44

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33cl bottle (BBF:30/04/2020) from 5th beer festival Carrément Bières in l’Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville in Belgium. F: huge, white, very slow gusher and extremely long lasting. C: orange gold, hazy. A: malty, orange, caramel, bit orange, mellow tropical fruits. T: medium to full malty base, orange, citrus, mellow tropical fruits, bit caramel, medium to high carbonation, decent bitterness, nothing really special here, drinkable, bit like my homebrew without gusher and high carbonation.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Sep 2019 at 19:09

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
33cl bottle (7,2%, BBF: 30/04/2020) from 5th beer festival Carrément Bières in l’Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville in Belgium. F: big, tan, average retention. C: amber, hazy. A: malty, caramel, bit toffee, vaguely fruity. T: medium malty base, caramel, simple fruity, almost dry on the palate, bit soapy, leaves, medium carbonation, ok for Belgian Ale - Dark / Amber style yet nothing very special.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2019 at 18:45

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
33cl bottle from 5th beer festival Carrément Bières in l’Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville in Belgium. F: medium, white, average retention. C: gold, hazy. A: malty, spicy, bit herbal, orange peels, floral, yeasty. T: medium malty base, bit orange, bready, bit spicy, bit caramel, yeasty touch, quite malty lack some more hops in, more like ordinary ale than saison, lower carbonation, partially enjoyed.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2019 at 17:55