6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
750 ml bottle purchased at Cigarette City, Seabrook for a price of $9.99. Amber type color thin lasting head. Aroma is light earthy spice, mild herbs and a different yeast Syrian I don’t remotely recognize.
The flavor has a balance of sweet malts and a herbal earthy character that leads to a dry finish. This could be a slightly better if fresh. Of course without any type of best before or bottle date it’s hard to know if this could be better or not. It’s French so likely this is as good as it gets.
The flavor has a balance of sweet malts and a herbal earthy character that leads to a dry finish. This could be a slightly better if fresh. Of course without any type of best before or bottle date it’s hard to know if this could be better or not. It’s French so likely this is as good as it gets.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2015
at 20:24
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy caramel aroma. Fruity malty spicy caramel flavor with weak yeasty hints. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2015
at 07:51
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy flavor with yeasty hints. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty finish with hints of caramel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2015
at 07:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
750 ml bottle, 2013 vintage sampled in 2015. More than less clear, golden body with a fine, foamy, long lasting white head. Aroma is malty with cain sugar and warming alcohol. Flavor is sweet malt, sugar, hint of caramel and honey and almost boozy but not unpleasant alcohol, quite hot. Fine body and long sweet aftertaste with sweet malt and honey by the end. Rather close to a triple this one. Not very complex really, but drinking more than just a small glass make it very pleasant. It was a good match to my chilly crab pancakes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Feb 2015
at 03:02
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
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Poured from 750mL bottle. Clear pale yellow with white head. Aroma of toasted malt, corn and peanut. Flavour more or less same.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2015
at 00:07
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
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Sample at the Molen monthly tasting. thick white head. Lots of carbonation. Clear golden pour. Very nice.
Tried
on 09 Dec 2014
at 12:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Klar brun med høyt beige høyt skum. Malt, kandissukker og jord. Smaker alkohol, søt karamell og noe bitterhet. Alkoholstram ettersmak, noe bitter
Tried
on 01 Nov 2014
at 08:12