Ammonite

Microbrewery in Sennecey-le-Grand, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France 🇫🇷

Established in 2019

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2 Rue du Château, Hameau de Sens, Sennecey-le-Grand, 71240, France
Description
After studying viticulture and oenology in Beaune, Simon Lecomte sets out on a journey to meet avant-garde winegrowers. He draws on their words and practices and returns to Burgundy to set up a brewery there with the aim of transposing oenology and winemaking processes to the development of his beers. He begins by filling around thirty barrels which he stores with fellow winegrowers. In 2018, he set up the brewery in Sens, a small hamlet of Sennecey-Le-Grand, following the discovery of an old virgin 17th century barn. After several months of work to rehabilitate the place, he installed his tanks there and continued the work initiated a few years earlier. It was not until spring 2019 before the first beers were released from their barrels

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

11/XI/22 - 1.5L bottle (or 3L?) @ Billie’s Craft Beer Fest (day 1), BB: n/a (2022-1504) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear blond beer, no head. Aroma: fruity, quite some grapes, a bit of apricots and peaches, some almonds, a bit oxidized. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, but a little sweet as well, very fruity, white grapes, acidic and both mineral at the same time. Aftertaste: dry, sourish, a bit lemony, white grapes.

Tried from Draft on 11 Nov 2022 at 18:10


7.4

Great lambic style beer. Clean but bold and robust. Billie’s beer fest 2022

Tried on 11 Nov 2022 at 18:10


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

11/XI/22 - 75cl bottle @ Billie’s Craft Beer Fest (day 1), BB: n/a (2022-1478) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear pale light yellow beer, no head. Aroma: uh oh, vinegar, very sourish impression, soapy as well, a bit floral, chemical and dirty, pretty weird, nope. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of melons, ripe apricots, very sourish, weird, lemony, sour tangerines and mandarins, not too bad. Aftertaste: very acidic, dry, oranges and other citrus notes, ok-ish.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2022 at 16:00


3.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

11/XI/22 - 75cl bottle @ Billie’s Craft Beer Fest (day 1), BB: n/a (2022-1471) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Cloudy beige beer, no head. Aroma: yuck, this is all vinegar, and just a little fruity, that’s bad! Acetobacter is not the way you want your beer to go. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a little sweet up front, very fruity, then vinegar, sourish, lots of apricots, more vinegar. Aftertaste: very fruity, and more of that dirty vinegar. The fruits are very nice, but the vinegar just spoils everything, too bad.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2022 at 15:25


5.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

At Billies. Pee, vinegar, apricot, soft funk. Quite rough. A friend liked another bottle, so maybe there’s some variation?

Tried on 11 Nov 2022 at 13:41


5.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

At Billies. Quite rough sour, lactic, funk, soft berries, wheat, pee. Quite sour. Very rough.

Tried on 11 Nov 2022 at 13:39


5.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022.
Dorée claire/jaunâtre, pas de col.
Arôme rend de suite des effluves de vinaigre oscillant vers l'acétique - je ne retrouve pas grand chose en terme de ce qui est attendu par le côté méthode Solera qui semble vouloir reprendre ce système depuis le début de la brasserie - je crains qu'avace le temps l'acidité et le côté vinaigre ne vont aller qu'en s'accentuant suaf à équilibrer les mélanges.
Palais est fortement marqué par le côté 'sour' d'une acidité qui en devient rapidement déplaisante - le tout est tout autant grinçant aux dents avec un fruité/herbacé de rhubarbe acide/citronné et vieille levure pâtissière.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2022 at 11:35


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Bottle @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022.
Orange trouble, pas de col.
Arôme est sur un bouquet marqué par l'abricot frais et fermenté - cependant, un bouquet acétique se dégage venant nuire à la bière.
Palais est plat, abricot est là mais ruiné par un caractère acétique trop marqué. Ceci étant l'abricot fermenté est bien là avec un fini léger fleuri.
J'imagine le prix de la bouteille, et pour le prix, vis-à-vis le résultat final cela n'est pas du tout justifié.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Nov 2022 at 08:58


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

Bottle pour at Arrogant sour Festival 2022. Hazy orange with small white head. Mostly apricots, maybe some other stone fruit, juicy, medium sourness and body.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Sep 2022 at 21:07


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle pour at Arrogant Sour Festival 2022. Beautiful red colour with small white head. Some funk, vinous, grapes, medium sourness. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Sep 2022 at 06:02