sjogro (11801) reviewed Ipane Brune (Summer Version 6°) from La Franche 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
At Jim/John is back tasting. Clear dark brown, white head. Toasted cramel/chocolate malts. Tea bitterness/dryness. Medium bitter, light sweet. Medium body, slightly moldy. --- Beer merged from original tick of Ipane on 21 Nov 2017 at 20:46 - Score: 6. Original review text: 2.9
Maakun (16597) reviewed Ipane Brune (Summer Version 6°) from La Franche 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at THT. Almost black with beige head. Sweet grains and lots of old coffee, milk chocolate, soft herbs, toffee. Strangely sweet with herbal bitter finish. Under medium bodied with a bit slick watery feel. Not the best beer by the brewery...
Deanso (15673) reviewed Ipane Brune (Summer Version 6°) from La Franche 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
75cl bottle shared at the Jim/John is back tasting. Thin ring off white head. Clear black pour. A nice beer but not a stout really more a Belgian dubbel
Maakun (16597) reviewed Profonde from La Franche 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at home. Hazy golden with big fluffy white head. Lots of citrus with lime peel, orange, light lemon. Quite herbal and grassy, spicy yeast, light sweet malts. Light sweet and over medium bitter. Medium bodied with quite some carbonation. Very nice.
sjogro (11801) reviewed Profonde from La Franche 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Den Haag Tasting at Maakun’s. Bottle courtesy of Maakun. Clear gold white head. Sweet yeasty flowery hoppy fruity, pineapple, mango. Medium sweet, light bitter. Dry finish, high carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Small, fast gone cream-beige head over deep brown beer. Caramel, toffee, blue/dark berries, roasted, roasted malts and grains. Bitterish-roasted, with a faint sourish streak, upheld by the spritzy carbonation. Roast keeps in the palate, but the bitterness is all but gone by that moment. Faint fruity notes. Gets rather dull-sweetish warming up. Bit thin body, near overcarbonated despite the small head. Average.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Profonde from La Franche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Towering, yellowish head, leaving textbook lace over finely, well-carbonated orangey golden beer. Very nice citrussy & fruity (New World) hops, dry straw & grains. Slight ureum . Taste is bitter, fruity, just a tad metallic. Citrus/citruspeel; hopoil galore. Faint grain/malt underneath, but fully dominated by the hops. Slgith astrigency, metallic tang; sharpish carbonation, light body. Top quality IPA.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Forte from La Franche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Very fine & dense yellow-amberish tinted head over faintly veiled foxy-copper beer; textbook lace. Some hops, some mineral aroma; caramel; oxydized, old, even nearly rancid nuts. Caramel, again nutoil, and hoppy-leafy bitterness (oak, nettles, dandelion,...) Precious little IPA flavours. Warming up, musk. Oily, viscous, oozy feel. Much less carbonated than the very stable head suggests. Right. Send somebody over to California, now.
Fergus (31329) reviewed iE XXYZ Bitter from La Franche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at CBC Clerkenwell 10/9/2015. Bottle picked up in Strassbourg. Hazed golden / orange coloured pour with a lively lasting white frothy head. Aroma is light citrus lemon, grainy, little funk, farmyard. Flavour is composed of grainy straw, tangy citrus, bread, light berry, Aggressive hop bitterness. Palate is frothy airy carbonation, grainy,. Big bitterness.