Bottle from a supermarket in Rouen. Pours a dark brown, coppery undertone, topped with a fairly big beige colored head and nice retention. Roasty malt with coffee and some mild chocolate notes. As it warms it becomes more roasty. Sweet qnd roasty, lots of coffee and some mild bitterness in the finish. Pretty nice.

Bottle shared by Erwin Van Moll @ Brewpub Van Moll during the brewing of Benzai’s 10k beer. Hazy orange to light amber color, medium sized off-white head that lasts for a decent while and leaves good lacing. Aroma is malts, a bit perfumy hops. Taste malts, some hops, slightly floral, lightly bitter. Average to decent body and carbonation.

Draught at Trois 8, 4/24/15
This was indeed listed as a kolsch on the menu, and while I wouldnt run out and call this a kolsch if I drank it blind, I’d much less call it a BdG. Very nice attenuation on the beer with very grassy, somewhat floral hops adding a moderate bitterness. There are some unusual flavors in here, not sure that I would agree they are off or unwanted. It is easy to write off unusual flavors to it being a "Farm Brewery" and while I certainly do not think that gives you free reign to produce strange or unclean beer, I rather liked the strange, yeasty flavors here. Light sourdough, biscuits and lemon are all mixed in with a light carbonation and somewhat watery texture to be expected at this gravity. I will admit that I agree on there being some soapiness here or some other such alkaline compound that is undesirable. Other than that, though, it goes down well and has a true enough malt and hop flavor. Trois 8 strikes me as a place that does a little homework on the breweries they are putting on tap, so I expect this isn’t just some second rate brewery.
Moderate haziness shows more sediment than it should, but it’s not cloudy. Head is small and fairly fleeting while the body is a pale, bronzed-tinged gold.
Nose smells of mineral water, floral and lightly citrusy hops. Bit of honey.

Flaske 330ml fra Vinmonopolet, Tromsø Sentrum. Drukket på Rundvannet 25 Mar 15. Mørk gyldenbrun. Veldig høyt luftig, stabilt skum. Beskjeden maltaroma. Smaken er litt karamell - mest krydder. Litt tørr ettersmak.

Le Trois 8, Paris, Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is like a light pils. Taste is slightly hopped and a bit of green apple. Very easy drinking. This was described as a kolsch, rather than a biere de garde on the menu, so I don’t know what is up.

Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours slightly hazy amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, biscuit, dried fruits, yeast and hint of nuts. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle at Craig’s. Pours murky amber, nose is spicy, caramel, taste is light fruit, toffee.

330ml bottle bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Persistent off-white head to a misty amber-orange coloured body. Spiced mid-sweet fruity aroma, hints of yeast. Taste of juicy malts, pear, green apples, and yeast leading to a dry bittersweet ending with noticeable alcohol. Medium to thin bodied. Gets rather bland after a while in the glass. So and so (Tromsø 28.12.2014).

Dark golden with a white head - Good malt aroma - Good malt body with some bitterness - Mlat finish that lasts - This was nice