BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2006

Formerly brewed at BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
Style: Sour Ale
Saignelégier, Switzerland

15 DEC 07, Southeast YeHa. Vintage 2006. 750mL bottle. Pours light brown. Aroma is of malt and Belgian Sour. Flavors are tart and sour. A great sour ale.

Aroma:flemish sour aroma,cheery mixed with wet dog.... Appearance:Hazy orange-brown,good head... flavor:i dont taste the wood,cherry,garbadge flavor,sour....

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.