Bottled 33cl
Dark ruby, good off-white head. Light fruity (plums) nose. Medium-bodied. Carbonated. Fruity flavors (plum, fig) in the quite light malty base. Hints of sugar. Some yeasty notes and woody aftertaste.

Bottled "Ar-Men Blanche de Froment"
Golden, a bit hazy, no head. Sweet yeasty nose: banana. Sweetish flavor: sugary, honey, vanilla and some grassy notes. Medium-bodied.

Nice hazy reddish amber with a thin off white head. Sweet malt and fruity aroma, with prunes and light berry notes. Sweet caramel malt with peaty nutty notes, and a nice vinous finish. Medium bodied. Hybrid between a brown ale and a bière de garde.

Reddish brown ale with a thin white head. Sweet malt and herbal overtones in aroma. In mouth, a completely different story. Very smokey malt with undertones of whiskey malt, and lightly oily in mouth. Sweetness gets a bit cloying. Medium bodied. Still very interesting smoked ale.

Hazy pale blonde beer with thin white head. Rather herbaceous aroma with light banana notes. Light malt in mouth with notes of minerals and rye. Rather light bodied, with unpleasant finsih...not their best. Bought in May 2004, Bieropholie imports.

Hazy blonde with a thick collapsing white head. Sweet light malt with a light orangey note. In mouth, good bready malt with a touch of pleasant cirus acidity and fruitiness and nice crisp hops in finish. Medium bodied. Bought in May 2004. Man, I’m surprised its still good!

(Bottle 33 cl) Very reddish brown appearance. High carbonation but limited head. Apparently this is filtered but it really has a rather pronounced sediment. Smoked malt gives this beer a lot of personality with an underlying sweetness and pretty much no bitterness. Unusual and actually rather delicate. Top fermented, unpasteurized. 161204

Huge yellow-peachy head, quite dense: faintly hazy orange-amber beer. Spicey nose, with ginger but also bog myrtle and faint citrus. Fruitiness slowly gains on the spices. Slightly adstringent, fiery-spicey taste; ginger and other root-spices. Bitterish, but with a lot of sweeter cookie-like malts. Adstringent, as said, but also surprisingly well-bodied for a 6% ABV beer. Typical micro-brewer beer, on the edge of homebrewing. For the amateurs of the spicey style, good one to try out.

Strange case, this. I purchased blindly 2 beers, which proved to be identical, even when sporting different labels. Yet, Sant Erwann had Saint Yves mentioned in smaller lettering, Saint Yves the opposite. As it happens, Sant Erwann is Breton for Saint Yves, former Brittany bischop, 7 centuries ago Yellow to orange golden, well carbonated, small snowwhite head; end of bottle full of sticky yeast. Sant Erwann bottle less carbonated, more hazy. Both bottles exactly same fresh green smell, grass and garden herbs, as well as some lemony hops. S. Erwann maybe touch of liquorice. Perfumed, spicey flavour: ginger, grains of paradise, finishing spicey, peppery sweet and a touch of acidity. S. Yves is markedly drier, root spices, and nearly no acidity. Slightly burning MF, bit slick, medium body both bottles. The differences noted are those affected by two bottles of the same beer, with slightly different keeping. A little shortsightedness from my part proved rather interesting after all. Best before dates are undecipherable codings, getting more and more popular. I wonder if this is legal???

Amber color; creamy head. Nice malty aroma, a bit alcoholic, cognac. Malty taste, a bit sweet and really bitter. Very long final. Solid. Belgian quality: a good beer!