7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Bon Marche, Paris. Malty, earthy, caramel aroma, with raisons and plums. Deep dark, amber-orange color with lace. Sweet dried fruits and caramel flavor. Nice but a bit too sweet. Earthy hops, prunes. Nice body, nice balance, tasty malts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2010
at 06:05
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Wonderful appearance, dark ruby-amber body and solid reddish-beige head. Aroma is a complex mix of barley, malts, fruitiness, grains. Quite refined, much more than your usual French beers. The aroma starts as barley, with a middle of malts and finishes with a spicy alcohol finish. Extremely well blended and balanced - I’m impressed.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2010
at 14:13
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled, thanks oh6gdx! Hazy nut brown, lively head. Caramelly nose. Sweet with medium body and spritzy, rounded mouthfeel. Flavours of toast and dough. Burnt salty finish with low bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2010
at 06:03
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours a pale brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy finish with some yeasty hints.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2009
at 06:15
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours an amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty aroma with some grassy hints. Fruity spicy yeasty flavor with some grassy hints. Has a fruity spicy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2009
at 05:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 7%. Bready and fruity aroma, a bit strange. Seemingly clear brown colour. Small white head. The flavour has an OK spicy hoppiness, a little sweetness, some caramel. Compact mouthfeel and high carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2009
at 09:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Médaille de Bronze, Concours Générale Agricole, Paris 2006
Corked half bottle
Dark amber color; big creamy head. It has a strong aroma of malt and caramel, mature; and candi sugar; a bit perfumy; similar to some English Barley Wine. It has a good body structure, with a sweet caramel flavor in the front, and a slightly more bitter caramel later; it has a correct bitterness and a balanced final. It’s a very good Strong Ale, mature, not exceptionally complex, but very solid.
Corked half bottle
Dark amber color; big creamy head. It has a strong aroma of malt and caramel, mature; and candi sugar; a bit perfumy; similar to some English Barley Wine. It has a good body structure, with a sweet caramel flavor in the front, and a slightly more bitter caramel later; it has a correct bitterness and a balanced final. It’s a very good Strong Ale, mature, not exceptionally complex, but very solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2008
at 06:18
5.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Medium, very dense white head; very carbonated golden-copper beer. Toasted, grassy, greenmalts aroma’s; reeks unfermented, crude. Toasted, greenmalt, unfermented worts, "hopped" with freshly cut grass. Ouch. Light body, burning MF. Ever heard about lagering vessels? They transform worts to beer, given time...
Tried
on 06 Apr 2008
at 02:05
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Underrated. Pours with a smallish, frothy, off-white head. A dark, clear brown body. Some lacing and a thin layer of head retention. Aroma is nice with floral hops, melon, honey and a touch of alcohol. Taste is kind of thin, like a weak APA with a bit of caramel sweetness. Slight creamyness to the mouth with slightly fizzy carbonation.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2008
at 17:48
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Sample from 37.5 cL bottle. Pours deep brown. Aroma of malts. Flavour is malty sweet, almost no hops. Finish is malty sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2007
at 13:23