3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 75cl. @ home.
[ Trade by oh6gdx ]. Clear medium orange amber color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, dry, sour berry, wood, oak, alcohol, medicine notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and acidic, moderate bitter with a long duration, and a dry acidic finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20090710]
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has of fruits and cherries with an acidic edge. The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of fruits and cherries, leading to a dry acidic finish. Thanks omhper for sharing.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy and deep orane with a fully diminished off-white head. Acidic and barley heavy aroma. Slight fruity note. Woody and full aromatic flavour. Sweet and fruity. Sweet/acidic flavour leading into a nice slight woody finish. Very well hidden alcohol. Nice but reminds me of a dry flemish sour.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of omhper. Hazy orangey brown with an off-white head. Lovely sourish, woody aroma - lots of wood actually. Surprisingly only medium-bodied, the alcohol is very well hidden. Caramel, tart fruit and woody flavours. Finishes dry. Excellent. 051008
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottled@omhper-post-SBWF-1st-weekend tasting. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is very sour berries, some wood, mild spices and some acidic notes. Flavour is caramel, sourwood, some earthyness, mild spices and yeast. Quite dry finish. Bigtime sourness in the finish.
4.5 AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
UPDATED: SEP 26, 2008 Bottled, thanks Bov! Hazy nut brown, no head. Aroma of balsamic vinegar and oak. Tart and citric with vinous arousing alcohol. Woody and lemony with fruity cherry flavour. Potent malt backbone, soft but solid. Long floral bitterness. Compex and intense, absolutely fantastic!
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
4 years old
Dark amber color; minimal carbonation, therefore just a thin head, reducing to a thin collar. The first aroma is acetone, but also wood cask, Balsamic vinegar, fruits (cherries), malt (which conveys some sweetness in this wild sour aroma). The body is correctly structured; it has some malt and caramel flavor, with a strong presence of dark berries fruitiness and dark berries wine, also cherries; there is some residual sweetness and a vein of Sherry; it’s very sour, but the acidity is not very well blended with the rest, and there is an evident trace of acetone; the alcohol as well is quite evident; in the final there is some woody astringency too, and it’s drier.
Interesting, as usual, but a bit too aggressive.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
(750ml bottle, 2007 vintage) Pours a hazy amber body with a small beige head. Aroma of vinous, balsamic vinegar, leather, sour fruit, and oak. Flavor of sour cherry, oak, earthiness, vinous, and caramel malt. Nicely done!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: JUL 19, 2009 Cloudy amber. Sweet, fruity, peachy...an attractive aroma. Tart, with crazy fruitiness and a lot of malt. Very complex, bizarre. An enticing blend of fresh, funky BFM rusticity and burly barley wine-ish power. A re-rate in June 2009 showed a similar funky, tart character with black currants, some nice developing brett and a vibrant character. I enjoyed that sample more.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Name: Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien
Date: April 05, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Trappeze, Athens
Vintage: 2007
Appearance: cloudy dark red, wispy off white head
Aroma: sweet winey fruity aroma with a balancing tartness
Flavor: sweet and fruity flavor, deep dark caramel, huge eye watering lactic tartness, light oak, fruity tartness and oak combine for a cherry pit character
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+/4
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