7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Medium amber in color, with medium white lacing - musty, damp, cellared aroma, with touches of yeast and mild sweetness - medium bodied, with flavors of honey and fruits such as strawberries and cherries - dry sherry-like character - finish is a little thin, but has a decent maltiness to it - a highly under-rated biere de garde, and not a bad price, either.
Tried
on 14 Oct 2003
at 21:09
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
The beautiful red color, slightly pink head, and explosive raspberry aroma of this beer immediately reminded me of my fav. fruit beer, New Glarus Raspberry Tart. However, upon actually imbibing the liquid, I was a bit disappointed - the beer is quite thin, and the finish is downright watery - there is a very mild sweetness, some raspberry flavors, as well as other berries, but if I close my eyes I could probably fool myself into thinking I was drinking some kind of sparkling water beverage - a bit of lambic-like tartness up front makes you think something interesting is coming, but trust me, it isn't.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2003
at 21:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Copperish light amber. Aroma shows alcohol, peach, apple, light caramel. Palate starts with alcohol, adds some peachy, appley notes, and some higher alcohols. Body is slightly oily, corn syrupy, and slightly caramelly. Better than it looks on paper, though, this beer charmed me with its simple, rural style (and yeah, a 750 of 8.3% is bound to leave a good feeling in your head, too!)
Tried
on 16 Sep 2003
at 19:50
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Reddish dark brown. Nose mixes chestnut, toffee, chocolate, light molasses. Palate is a healthy mix of molasses, alcohol and dark chocolate. A little too spritzy for these dark malts - the carbonation just gets in the way here. Very sweet overall, with a slightly earthy, nutty finish. They call is a biere de garde on the bottle, but that is a stretch to say the least.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Sep 2003
at 19:42
5.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Peachy opaque colour. Heavy-handed peach syrup aroma. Spritzy body. Sweet peach flavours are less cloying than the nose hinted, but still cloying. Quite one-dimensional. A lot less beer underneath of this one than the Framboise.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2003
at 19:40
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
The aroma is slightly sweet with notes of fruit and black currant. The color is brown and it has no head. THe flavor is very sweet - way too sweet - yet at the same time sour with notes of plums. A very boring flavor. The alchohol prickles the tongue slightly. This is not a good beer.
Tried
on 12 Aug 2003
at 14:54
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 8
Overall 3.5
The aroma is very light. The color is orange and it has a beutiful though fast disappearing head. The flavor is too sweet with a weird malt flavor that vanishes too fast compared to the strength with coriander notes. A sweet dryness lingers. All in all a bad flavor.
Tried
on 28 Jul 2003
at 08:47
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottled. Pale golden with appley, fresh aroma. Sweet and malty with rounded mouthfeel and quite bitter finish. Not overly complex.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2003
at 11:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Hazy, pale orange, greenish shine - medium-thick white head. Herbal, shrubbery nose with a malt-cookie character, honey, some oxidation, and a touch of pepper as well. Bitterish aroma with very sweet - alcoholic underbuild. Bitterish is herbal more than hoppy. Honey-ish flavour again. Mouthfeel seems empty at first, but fills in fully enough. Very prominent alcoholburn, and even syrupy in the end. It's a Bière de Garde! It says so on the label! Seriously, it has little B.W. characteristics - the high ABV and liqueurish-alcoholimpression excepted. And it betters with age - de garde, indeed.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2003
at 12:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A dark yellow beer with a small head. The aroma is lovely sweet and malty with perfumated and spicy notes. The flavor is very light in the beginning but then it has a lot of palate. It is rather sweet and in the end lovely bitter. A good beer - but not fantastic.
Tried
on 13 Jun 2003
at 06:22