BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2006

The aroma is sour with wood, yeast and leather. The flavor is also plenty sour with leather, wood and yeast. The body is light with a chalky mouthfeel and soft carbonation.

750ml bottle from tytoanderso; Nose of oak, Rainier cherries, caramel, and some light, yeasty tartness; hazy rust-brown with a medium straw head; flavor is yeast, toffee, brown sugar, spices, and light tartness.

Dark hazy beer with a nice beige head when pouring. The head disappears. This beer has yeast inside the bottle => Bottle refermented. Tasting gives alot of fruit. Like drinking some fine Kriek, but !!! There’s no fruit inside ! This Swiss handcrafted "Ale de Garde" has been aged in oak barrels and blended into near perfection. Nice mellow lacto-acid with great funky characteristics, and this in combination with woody tannin favors (oak barrels) similar to the finest Oude Gueuze, even comparable to great French wine. Yes, that much is going on inside that truely wonderful brew. There’s more: Raisins, Cinnamon, Port wine, Whiskey, wood bitterness, candi sugar........ warming alcoholic. 11 vol% is a lot, and tasting has to be done with care. Much appreciated !!!

Bottle. Poured a cloudy orange body with thin head. Aroma is sour, fruit. Flavor is sour, cherries, tart. Nice body.

Poured a murky red brown color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass Aroma of wood, nuts, cherries, light wild yeast, with some cardboard. taste of cherries and wood, with some toffee, and a dry, acidic finish. A bit medicinal, with the alcohol coming through way too strong in the end.

Thanks to egajdzis. Pours a hazy brownish red with a smaller bubbly off white head. Aroma of tart cherry, barnyard, some alcohol, floral notes and some caramel. Flavor of tart cherries, some light funkiness, light alcohol, some slight vinegar notes and other barnyard notes.

Muddy brown hue, with a big explosive tan-colored head, winey, oaky nose, some funky, wild yeast, hint of tartness, with a fruity, raisiny, plummy accent, with some toastiness, and a subtle note of black bitter chocolate in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity, caramelized character, with some winey, vinous, oaky, grapey tannic and tart cherryish notes, with a hint of black pepper spiciness, brown sugar and a chocalotey accent,within a warmth mouthfeel, leading towards a malty, fruity, sour, winey finish.

Name: Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien
Date: 12/16/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Vintage: 2006

cloudy dark amber, fine beige head, tart cherry pit aroma with an oaky character, big tart caramel malt flavor, nice cherry pit woody character, touch of sweetness to balance the fruity tartness, light cobwebs, lasting tart finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4