Bottle from Bieres Cultes. Porter Gourmande Coffee Vanilla Porter 5.9% brewed at Brasserie Rabourdin. It pours a deep brown that settles I the class black with a thick tan head. The nose is roasty coffee and light vanilla - think French Roast. Med-light bodied with a scratchy carbonation and somewhat watery mouthfeel. The taste is good: chocolate, roasted coffee beans, light vanilla sweetness. Very good. 

From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is grapefruity and solid hoppy. Smooth fruity, bitter and slight sweet fruity impression. Crisp bitter and smooth fruity finish.

Cloudy and dark orange color with an off-white head with nice lacework and good duration. Aroma has notes of resin hops, pine, light caramel and some peach. Flavor has a decent bitterness with good duration, moderate fruitness, notes of grapefruit, peach and slightly citrus. The flavor has a good bitterness with good duration. Highly recommended.

@ Express de Lyon, Paris. Dark brown color, almost black with a beige head with good lacework. Aroma has notes of roasted malts, licorice and coffee beans with light ashes. Flavor is bittery with light vanilla hints, coffee also present. Mild creamy on palate with roasty hints.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity slightly grassy hoppy grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty grapefruit hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grapefruit hoppy bitter finish with weak yeasty hints.

(330 ml bottle from A la Biere Comme a la Biere) Pours nearly clear orange gold with a small white head that fades to a ring with lace. Aroma of passion fruit, tangerine, slight pineapple, grapefruit zest, hop leaf, pale and light caramel malt sweetness. Palate fairly dry for an IPA, hop forward with pretty high bitterness. Some orange and grapefruit pith and zest, intense leafy hops with a bit of fresh pine and lots of resin, a little passion fruit, very light caramel notes. The finish is bitter and astringent, very pithy and resinous but not much pine. Chewy sort of hop feel that sticks to the mouth after. Medium body with fairly light carb. Definitely on the big bitter side for an IPA but not without fruit either so still fairly refreshing. Quite a good French take on an American IPA.

En fût, version café et vanille. Couleur brun foncé presque opaque, mousse moka pâle laissant une légère dentelle. Aime de malt torréfié, café, vanille. Goût semblable aux arômes. Carbonatation moyenne, corps moyen-faible.

A golden ipa with a thin lacing off white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with nice floral hops, citrus pulp, pleasant. In mouth, a smooth sweet fruity caramel malt with light floral hops, grapefruit pulp, nice and smooth. On tap at Le Triangle.

A la biere comme a la biere, Paris: Pours copper with a white head. Aroma is mostly citrus. Taste is fruity without that much bitterness. Pretty standard pale ale with a light body.

Golden color with a white head, medium lacing and good lasting. Aroma has notes of citrus, pine and resins. Grapefruit, light tangerine and citrus in the flavor with medium maltiness provide a decent bitterness. Mild bittery in the final with notes fo citrus; fresh mouthfeel.