BFM Cuvée du 7ème

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

750ml bottle, 2006 vintage. Hazy brown color, nice white head. Slight sour apple aroma, not much hoppiness. Hoppiness is there in the taste though, not too bitter really. Not much of an IPA , but not bad either.

2006 vintage, 750ml bottle. Pours a hazy, burnt orange with a creamy, white head. Nose is cheesy, spicy, brett, toast, herbs. Flavor is tart, cherries, lemon, herbs. Medium bodied, tart finish. Starting to mellow just a touch.

Bottle. Pours a murky orange-brown body with a creamy medium-sized white head. The aroma has pineapple, lime, and grassy hops. High carbonation and btterness - cookiesh dough flavour with some pear skins and mild toastiness. Pretty good but I found it difficult to pinpoint the specifics.

Explodes out of bottle making a five-finger+ white rocky head that goes quickly leaving some lace. Cloudy amber color. Ton of yeast. Light-medium carbonation and medium bodied. Malty, yeasty nose. Flavor is sweet and spicy some raisin, clean finish. $5.99 for a 330ml bottle from Tully’s Beer & Wine Wells, Me.

Wow, rediculous head of insane and intense bubbles. It actually poured a 4 inch head in my goblet. 2 inches of which were above the glass. Frothy medium sized bubbles that reduce to a dense creamy foam on top. Fruity aroma (apricots) with some caramel, spices and floral hops. Color is a slightly hazy dark amber. Light, crisp and fruity with a noticable alcohol presence. Very smooth with a decent malt backbone and more spices. This is really not an IPA. A typical belgian quality brew. Enough earthy and herbal notes that this could easily be classified as a saison. Some hops and biterness are present but they are muted by the other flavors. Finishes kind of dry. Damn foams keeps surging out of the bottle. Lingering herbal notes. A decent brew but no IPA

nutty brown color w/ lots of visable carbonation nd a gigantic dense lightly tan head w/ some good lacing. Aroma has a bi of hazlenut, some definate spices clove for sure and some grahm crackers w/ hints of malts too. Palate is nicely coated lightly creamy. Flavor is warming I’d have guessed more than 7.5% abv some lightly spiced hops hint of black pepper hitn of clove some bready notes and something lightly floral in the flavor. Decent beer, definatelly different. Thanks to Dave for sharing.

UPDATED: FEB 21, 2009 ’06 bottle. Dark amber colored, decent white heard, nice shimmering opacity. RB says it’s an IPA, but the nose says otherwise: a balanced combo of sour fruit, some vinegar, yeast, slight bitterness. The flavor... haven’t seen this kind of disparity yet. The flavor almost gets there, but the alcohol and heat bring it way down, drowning the acidic, yeasty, unsweet fruit notes and leaving a mess behind. The palate is rather thin but has nice length into yeast and bitter citrus, probably the closest it gets to an IPA. Overall serious potential, but the flavor is a problem. For those interested, Cd7eme:IPA as The Godfather:romantic comedy.

Bottle shared by bgburdman: Copper in color with a rocky off white head. Aroma, fruity, some yeast, and some caramel notes. Flavor, spicy notes, caramel, some heat, and some fruits as well. Some slight woody notes, interesting.