Brasserie Caracole

Microbrewery in Falmignoul, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Associated Venue: La Caracole

Established in 1765

Contact
Côte Marie-Thérèse 86, Falmignoul, 5500, Belgium
Description
Brasserie Caracole Brewing Company is a small brewery located in a small town of Falmignoul, Wallonia in Southern Belgium. It is home to the last of the wood-fired brewing kettles in Europe. Their limited technology, elbow grease style of brewing makes them an incredibly romantic and fantastic brewery. Its name was derived from a spiral snail shell that is translated into ‘Caracole.’ Since its establishment, the Brasserie Caracole Brewery has been distributing beers to various countries like France, Belgium, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan. It is famous for four traditional Belgian beers; the Prancing, the Troublette, the Sax and the Nostradamus. All four beers are bottle undergo bottle conditioning where they go through second fermentation with yeast in the bottle. This special type of fermentation has allowed for outstanding flavors and quality of beers to be produced by Brasserie Caracole Brewery.

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6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Draught. Fruity, citrusy aroma. Golden colour, light head. Head is stable enough to hold a ZBF token. Nice, citrusy, spicy flavour

Tried on 30 Mar 2005 at 13:15


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at ZBF 2005
Large, creamy/fizzy off-white, fully lasting head. Cloudy orange body. Nose of hops (flowers, grass) and perfume. Lightly to medium bodied. Average carbonation. Lightly acidic, moderately bitter initial flavour. Lightly bitter finish. Tastes very fresh.

Tried from Draft on 15 Mar 2005 at 08:15


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Clear gold; huge, luxurious head, very dense and stable, leaving some lace. Spicey (coriander absolutely, some others) nose, and vegetable. Taste is again a coriander onslaught. This is truly unbelievable. Their Bio-witbier is gracefully devoid of coriander flavour, this one is full of it. Why, why, why? Sweet, with a light sourish edge, pickles-like, typical for many’s the Caracole product. Medium bodied, slick, well attenuated. Not their best try, I wonder why. A Troublette bio for me, please.

Tried on 07 Mar 2005 at 14:28


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Not very trouble (!) pineapple-colour; fine white head, small but resisting. Superb great hops (!!) nose, nearly American. If I can smell the jute bails, I’m as happy as can be. And for a "witbier". +1 point! Very strange, finely spiced and citrus taste, lingering to lemon-lemonade end without sweetness. Retronasal, I get wheat finally. No excess coriander to be tasted, again +1 point. Light, this is the only typical witbier feature. It’s still a light beer, but it even beats the original non-bio version (!!!), which wasn’t too bad either.

Tried from Can on 07 Mar 2005 at 05:20


4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3

Draught Fully hazy amber-olive; good yellowish head, leaving lace. Nose of diacetyl, flowery, butterscotch. Honey, diacetyl, green beer AND glue. This is one amassment of severe shortcomings. Sticky, but the beer is refreshing - at least one good thing. Whatever did the brewer think of getting this beer out of the tanks already?

Tried on 06 Mar 2005 at 02:18


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Aroma tea-like, fruity and acidic. Yellow/golden colour with unstable white head. Vinegary and citric acidity with a little fruitiness and some creamy flavour. Carbonation is plenty and refreshing. Goes down quite well.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Feb 2005 at 11:29


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle Has a murky, amber-brown body. Off-white head. Nose of fruits (litchi), flowers. Moderately bitter, lightly sweet initial flavour. Moderately bitter (long) finish. Dry in the end, with some stickiness. Nice one.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Jan 2005 at 14:55


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle Yellow, hazy body. White creamy head. Spare lace. Mostly diminshing head. Hoppy-yeasty aroma. Lightly bitter flavour. Very similar to the Saxo Bio - I drunk the two in a horizontal tasting.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2005 at 13:53


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle White, creamy-rocky head. Good lace. Mostly diminishing head. Yellow sparkling body. Hoppy, yeasty aroma. Lightly bitter flavour. Fizzy carbonation. Lightly to medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Jan 2005 at 13:38


5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

I really like their Nostradamus but so far I have not been at all impressed with the rest of their beers. This one was sampled from an 11.2 oz brown bottle and poured a straw yellow color with a huge white head. The aroma was sweet and yeasty. The beer was hugely carbonated which I did not care for. The flavor was yeasty, sour tang and dry on the finish. A rather blah offering.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2005 at 12:46