BFM / Terrapin Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante (Collaboration Ale)

Brewed by BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
Style: Barley Wine
Saignelégier, Switzerland

Serve in Snifter

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Draught @ Cruise Roma - Barcelona, Un Mare di Birra, Grimaldi Lines.

Murky muddy medium amber colour with a small, fizzy and open, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light heavy malty, caramel, toffee, laberlarver (licorice candy). Initial flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter, chlorine, caramel, acetic - vinegar, finish flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter, apple, caramel with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. IMO this was not normal BFM standard .. [20110613]

Bottled. A hazy red beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of brettanomyces, malt, caramel, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of rum, alcohol, brettanomyces, malt, and caramel, leading to a tart finish.

33 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma is overripe fruity and dense malty. Light metallic and caramelish, overripe fruity too. Citric and fruity, dry malty finish, light spiced.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of kristina. Pours a cloudy and almost opaque dark amber with a tiny off-white head. Sweet rum aroma with a tart edge to it. Rich body, lowish carbonation, heavy caramel and overripe fruit with quite a tartness. Rummy notes, wood and a chemical edge to it. A little acetone. The alcohol doesn’t really show. A weird creation, but I kinda dig it. 260412

Bottled (thanks bov). Deep hazy amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, tart wood, and some earth. Flavour is sweet malts, alcohol and some mild resiny notes.

Bottled, thanks Bov! Cloudy orange/brown, no head. Tart woody nose. Full bodied with some malt sweetness and soft mouthfeel. Concentrated citricity, some cranberry and caramel, plenty of rhum. Typical BFM beer, intense, complex, acidic and lovely!

Bottle at Papsø. Hazy orange-brown coloured with a small off-white head. Fruity aroma of caramel and marzipan with notes of cherries. Fruity and light acidic flavour of caramel, marzipan and hops with notes of oak and cherry stones. Tart finish of cherry stones.

Bottle. Pours a hazy orange amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty slightly earthy oaky caramel aroma. Fruity malty oaky rum flavor with weak sour lactic hints. Has a fruity malty slightly sour tart oaky caramel finish.

2012-05-02, bottle from Au Grain d’Orge, Crissier, brewed in 2011, 7-3-8-4-16=38
Cloudy amber color, with small to no head, pouring viscous. Aroma of malt, vinegar, balsamic vinegar, oak with some vanilla. The body is bold, with full mouthfeel; astringent caramel and malt flavor, with a light interesting vinegar note, some sourness and later light oak vanilla. A complex experiment; may improve with aging.

2011-12-15, bottle from Au Grain d’Orge, Crissier, brewed in 2011, 8-4-8-4-18=42
It pours a hazy dark amber color, flat, no carbonation, no head. Intense aroma, with malt, the classic BFM funkyness, wood, light vanilla. Full bodied, although the semi-sweet mouthfeel is cut by a moderate sourness; good malt flavor, strong bitterness, with light astringency and medium funkyness, turning into bitter orange peels; there is a light caramelly note of rum. The alcohol is just perceived. Very good.

Draught. Weak fruity aroma, cherry? Hazy red brown colour, no head. Some wood flavour, sweetish. Good citric port flavour. Good fruity note. Rather well done with the barrel.