Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours clear gold into a shaker. Bright white head with medium retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Sourdough aromas. Soft with sourdough and sweet cracked corn upfront turning to flowery heather and hay in the medium length finish. Meh.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours hazy gold into a snifter. Fruity summer flower aromas. Dry with tart summer fruit, yeast and lavender.
Chalumeaux (4966) ticked Fée Des Fleurs from Down the Road Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from bottle thanks Airforcehops pours light hazy lemon with a one finger white head. Aromas of yeast floral funk and alot of white pepper and mango. Taste is similar to aroma with a lingering peppery finish. Not bad but not stellar.
CLW (16720) reviewed Fée des Fleurs from Down the Road Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz. bottle purchased at Kappy’s Liquors. Danvers, MA. Hazy gold color, light legs of lace down the sides of the snifter. The aroma is spicy yeast, flowers and grain.
The French yeast displays the same flavor as the aroma. Spicy pepper, floral hints with a grainy texture over the palate. Black pepper and floral hints linger in the finish.
This will not blow your mind but I feel ClarkVV was pretty harsh the the score of this brew. The yeast is still well represented in the flavor profile and overall it’s a solid example of the style. I had no problem drinking this.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Fée des Fleurs from Down the Road Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Sampled from the bottle at a store tasting, Martys in Allston, 7/10/15
Very carbonated, sparkling dark gold with a large, foamy white head that shows good retention.
Spicy and heavily estery nose shows bananas, apples, mango and heavy white pepper. Some alcohol and heavy sugars show up, giving the fruitiness a very candied-like aroma and dampening the whole experience. Dosent seem like any classic saison yeast I’m familiar with, though it’s difficult to tell through all of this sweetness...
Flavor, then, is a mouthfull of bready-sweet malts, with alcohol astringency and dryness coupled with white pepper and other odd spices. Sugary, underfermented and boozey. It’s odd, for as sweet as it is, it’s still rather boozey and estery. Sponge cake, lemon icing, lightly spicy hops and more fruit cocktail lingering....no thanks.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Pours gold into a shaker. White head with good retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Tropical fruit and aspergum aromas. Dry with sweet bready caramel upfront turning to sour earth in the lasting bitter finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Draught at Deep Ellum, 5/3/15
I don’t know what’s worse, the beer or this brewer’s website. Probably the website...Here’s an excerpt pulled directly from it
"It’s simple really, I brew the kinds of beer I‘ve always enjoyed—English ales, German porters and Russian stouts—that don‘t need coffee or bacon rinds to truly stand out."
Yep, this guy is a big fan of German porters. I’d like to just do a mic drop here and end the review, as this joke of a brewer/brewery is well-reflected in the beer, but I suppose, in fairness, I shall expound.
The beer is a clear brass-golden with a small off-white head. The nose is initially moderately hoppy, with mainly citrus and floral aromatics. Bits of crystal malt toasted notes can be found, as the beer warms and the hops seem to lessen more and more, giving way to the malt. A bit of buttercream (not diacetyl) and just too much sugar eventually.
As such, the beer begins with a very basic c-hop flavor on top of a caramel and sourdough maltiness. Light earth and yeast notes are noted, and the sweetness builds up more and more on the palate, rather saccharin-like and quite off-putting.
Really surprised this is brewed at Ipswich, as their yeast usually ferments to very low FGs. I don’t know if the brewer specifically wanted something malty, or what happened. I guess, taken as an English Pale it’s more palateable, but the last half of the pint was just a sugary mess with much more bitterness/acidity than actual hop flavor. Kind of surprised Deep Ellum has this crap on tap.
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| Beers | 38 |
| Ticks | 88 |
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Quick3Beers | 28 |
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Harrisoni | 13 |
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Chalumeaux | 12 |
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CLW | 6 |
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CosmicCharlie | 6 |
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Clarkvv | 5 |
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johnnnniee | 3 |
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VastActiv | 2 |
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Beerfest5 | 2 |
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Jow | 2 |