Carrefour Marchandises Internationales (CMI)
Holding Company in Les Ulis, Île-de-France, France 🇫🇷
Established in 1959
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Can 50cl.Alc. 5.0% Clear light to medium yellow color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white to off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, toasted, sugar. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090514]
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Bottle 75cl.Unclear yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate apple, wood. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20090501]
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The bottle looks good, the beer in the glass also. Starts modest hoppy-dry. Becomes more and more metallically, a bit hard. Finish is flat and boring. I exspected more...
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33 cL can. Pours clear and pale yellow with a small white head. Dry cardboardish aroma. Mild cornish and cardboardish flavoured. Bitter and mild syrupy cornish finish, subdued sweetness and light bitterness.
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Canned. Clear golden colour, not much head. Aroma is grainy, grassy, maizeish and also has some mild metallic notes. Flavour is very much the same. Not very pleasant.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
can. clear yellow, small white head faint faint aroma. flavor is sweetish, sourish, corny, metal.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Can 50cl.Clear light to medium yellow color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, fruity, paper notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20090501]
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Poured from a can. Decent appearance, looks almost like brand-name beer. Weird aroma. Decent taste, better cold of course, which is par for the course with low-end beers. Not a bad lager for the price.
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Fizzy head like pop, smells sorta like Mountain Dew. Looks kind of like Mountain Dew too. Tastes like a cross between Mountain Dew and really, really weak beer. I guess the only upside is that there is no taste of alcohol whatsoever. Yuck.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can labelled 1133 Bière d’Abbaye. Foamy head dies down quickly but the beer has a nice golden colour. Some slight aromas of sweetness and yeast. Mouthfeel and taste are all average for this kind of beer, which isn’t bad for the style. A kind of watered down version of all the more famous Belgians.