BFM La Dragonne

Brewed by BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Saignelégier, Switzerland

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Bottle 750ml. @ PBF 2011

[ Fridge / Room temperatured ]. Clear dark brown colour with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, heavy spicy, cinnamon, cardamom. Flavour is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, spicy spicy, sweet malt, sweet chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110702]
4-2-4-3-8

Bottle 750ml. @ PBF 2011

[ Heated aprox 75C temperatur ]. Clear dark brown colour with virtually none head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, spicy, cinnamon, cardamom. Flavour is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration, dark malt, caramel, chocolate, spicy notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20110702]
6-2-6-3-13

A dark red beer with no head. The aroma is sweet spicy combined with the notes of Danish Christmas cookies known as "brunkager". The flavor is of cloves and "brunkager".

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of Bov. Tasted first cold then mulled. Pours a hazy, dark brown with an orange hue and a small, rough head. Very spicy cardamom aroma. Medium body and rather flat. Very distinct flavours of cinnamon, cardamom and brown sugar. The alcohol really warms you up as the beer is heated. A very christmasy brew. 170707

75 cL bottle, courtesy of Bov. Pours murky darkbrown with no head, no carbonation. Aroma is cinnamon, cardemomme, cloves and caramelish. Sweet caramelish and raisin fruity. Light dry spiceness. Lingering caramelish finish. Heated the spices come out more clearly with a note of cloves, some vanilla. Flavour is dry, mild raisin like and complex spiced - somewhat berry fruity too. Dry spiced flavoured into the finish. Subtle spiced, dry and complex.

Bottled (fridge/roomtemperatured.)tt Deep ambery brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma is cinnamon, cardamom, some sweet maltyness as well. Flavour is almonds, cinnamon, cardamom and some sweet notes. 6 4 6 3 12.

Same bottle at approx 70-75c warm. Quite much brown to pitch black colour, no head. Aroma is sweet malts, mild spices and some fruityness. Flavour is spices, alcohol, some glue as well as mild liquorice (in a bad way). Not that pleasant when being warms, loses all the "touches" in it.

Bottled. Beautiful mahogany colour. No matter if it is served cold or at 60ºC the aroma is overwhelming with cinnamon and sugar. It is extremely sweet with clean mouthfeel. Cold it is strangely reminding of a typical Swedish breakfast dish (risgrynsgröt med kanel och socker). Warm it is a nice, odd warimg drink, reminding of Austrian jägertee, luckily the outside temperature was -9ºC, so this was a suiting drink at the time I sampled it. I really love the way BFM is experimenting, even if I don't always love their beer.

Bottle, 7%. At room temperature is has a mild cherry aroma, sweetish, berryish. Dark blood red colour, unclear. No head. The flavour is sweet with a distinct cinnamon aftertaste. Mulled, its aroma is a bit more pungent, not more pleasant, really. Same colour, of course, perhaps a bit of frothy head. The flavour is less sweet, a little bitter, seems to come from a sort of berry. The cinnamon flavour is a lot less noticable when the beer is hot.

Date: 06/23/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RBSG 2007

opaque dark brown, headless, pepery aroma with lots of sweet dark fruits, creamy low carbonated body, rich sweet dark chocolate and caramel flavor with lots of candied dark fruits, spicy character dominated by a hot but not black pepper character,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

Brown color, no carbonation. Deep spicy aroma: pain d'epices (local gingerbread), cloves, nutmeg, light anis, cinnamon. The promises of the spicy nose are not maintained by the flavors, the body resulting to be lighter than expected and the palate is N/A. Sometimes similar to a Fernet Branca.
Do you want a hot digestive? try the wonderful China Martini.

Dark brown with a medium beige head. Cellar in the aroma with roasted malt and spices. Flavour had anise, roasted malt, roasted malt and cellar notes. Finished sweet.