BFM Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien 2008

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 75cl. @ home.
Clear medium to dark red amber color with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy berry, berry sour, moderate cherry, wood, medicine notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and heavy acidic with a long long duration, aand a very dry finish. Good stuff ;o) Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090710]

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of fruit and malt. The flavor is acidic and sweet with notes of acetone, malt, lemon, and fruit, leading to a tart acetone finish

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of plovmand. Slightly hazy amber golden with no head. Tart, woody nose. Medium-bodied, caramel and wood, some acetone accents and a massive sourness. Very fresh and delicious. 220809

75 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours clear and golden deep amber with no head. Aroma is dry phenolic, wooden and slight acetone like. Dark overripe fruity too. Sweet, wineous and slight phenolic to mild acetone/chemical flavoured. Slight dry sourish into an overripe fruity flavoured finish. Mild acidic touch.

Bottled. Cloudy brownish amber, no head. Barnyardy acidic nose. Vinous and full bodied, lightly oaky with well rounded mouthfeel. Mild, but concentratd flavours. Caramelly malt with notes of Tokaji Aszu covered in salty citric barnyard. <mildly warming finish. Complex and lovely!

Bottle at Sune. Hazy orange coloured with a small off white head. Light acidic aroma of brett, wood and berries. Light acidic flavour of brett, wood, berries and soap. Tart finish.

UPDATED: AUG 23, 2009 Bottle, 11%. Good vanilla aroma, has some citric and funky notes. Cloudy orange colour. No head. the flavour is nicely citric, good sourness, lactic. But still balanced. Bites a bit in the finish and has a little paint thinner in the finish.

Dark red-amber color, hazy; sparse bubbles, no head. The aroma is more elegant and balanced than usual, with caramel, oak, light vanilla, a touch of the BFM funkiness; vinous. Good body structure; there is caramel flavor, but mostly a wine flavor, a bit acidic, funky; the light alcohol presence is actually complementing these flavors; the final has also a light vinegar component. As usual, the Abbaye de Saint-Bon chien is a great beer, but I had better vintages.

Hazy amber with a tiny beige short lasting head. Sour aroma with lacto, berries, malt and woody notes. The flavour was sour with lacto, berries, brett, malt and woody notes. Finished sour.

My Rating # 3300. Bottle @ Danish Summer Gathering, 2009. Pours cloudy brown with a small white bubbly head. Nose is deep and complex. Acetone, oak, berries, vanilla. Sweet and vinous with alcohol prickling the cheek. Heavy and extremely sippable. Tart and dry with a long lasting end. Loved it!