jake65 (5819) reviewed La Bête des Vosges from La Madelon 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle: Pours an orange amber color with light amount of haziness. Small head is gone in the blink of an eye. Aroma is mild of fruit and cider/wine. Taste is sort of bland at first, but developed into a sweet and ciderlike blend of fruits. Apple, ctirus, even strawberries. Some caramel too. Light alcohol presence. It really sits and warms on the palate. Not bad at all.
MoritzF (10567) reviewed La Bière du Poilu from La Madelon 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(33cl bottle, traded with Saarlander) Hazy amber colour with a short, slightly beige creamy layer. Dusty, peppery and herbal spicy aroma with fruity notes of citrus, berries and caramel. Moderately sweet flavour, light to medium body with a soft carbonation. Toast-malty, slightly yeasty and fruity taste (red berries) with caramel; slightly sweet malty finish with spicy and light flowery notes in the aftertaste. A beer made for Poilus is also ok for an (ex-)Landser like me and might be suitable for GIs and Tommys as well.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Blonde from La Madelon 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Slightly hazy orange-yellow beer with huge, dense & fine orange-tinted head. End of bottle fully opaque. Sweet, dusty & oxydized nose (BBD still a year off!); hints of orange peel, but expecially oxydized malts. Licorice-coloured malts determined taste, caramel malts, bit of parsley flavour. Little oxydation left. Quite aggressive, fiery MF, medium bodied. Definitely top fermented, but a tad too aggressive for my liking.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed La Pucelle from La Madelon 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Big, foamy white head over pale-golden beer. Strong nose of mirabelles/yellow plums’ jam or something similar, not really sweet, rather perfumed/spicey (vanilla). Rather dry, slightly sweet taste of mirabellenflapjes (puff pastry filled with mirabelles’ jam). Faintly spicey. Very light body, hint of fruit syrup. Again rather boring, but at least, in the Pucelle, the (hop?)bitterness is not there to clash with the fruit.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Marie Leszczynska from La Madelon 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Small, inconspicuous head over hazy orange beer. Buttery nose, plums/mirabelles extract, breaddough, vanilla. Quite adstringent, raw eau-de-vie with a bitterish accent, in all, it tastes like a watered-down obscure liqueur. And nothing to my taste. I wonder if hops clash wiht the fruit? Retronasal unmistakably mirabelles. Light bodied, oily slickness as a film over the beer. Ugh. Again one which I really can’t call "beer".
jhaase (14941) reviewed La Bête des Vosges from La Madelon 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle
Orange, low creamy tanned head. Peachy caramel aroma, minerally dusty notes. Relatively lightbodied, estery peachy base, sweet and strong, light ashen yeasty finish.
CloakedDagger (37568) reviewed La Bête des Vosges from La Madelon 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 33 cl) Slightly hazy, pale golden beer with a small head. Spicy and somewhat perfumy nose with an immensely bitter, hoppy finish. 220902
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Blonde from La Madelon 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 5.5
Cloudy blond color. Simple aroma, some malt (and maybe corn). Some malt taste and residual sweetness, correctly balanced by the bitterness, but not impressive.
omhper (45152) reviewed La Sorcière de Mabichon from La Madelon 23 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark brown. Chocolate, licorice and pepper aroma. Mild, nutty, dryish and malty. Soft with low bitterness.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed La Bête des Vosges from La Madelon 23 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bright pale amber colour, ordinary head and quite nice perlage. Not surprising aroma, some sweetness and alcohol, some malt, light fruitness. Quite strong body, alcohol, poor malt and hop character, some sweetness. Ordinary palate.