Bière Darbyste

Brewed by Brasserie de Blaugies
Style: Traditional Ale
Dour-Blaugies, Belgium

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

UPDATED: SEP 9, 2008 75 cL. Pours orange-amber with a persistent, white head. Somewhat floral perfume with notes that remind me more of apricot than fig. Tart flavor with some earthiness and otherwise dryish mouthfeel. Well-balanced, tasty, and I like the low abv.

Fun time at Paul Yang’s. Pours orange-amber and 1 inch of white head with lots of staying power. Loose lacing. Exuberant bubbles rocket to the top of the glass. I smelled some saison-ish funky hay, grains, and soap. My tongue received notes of lawn clippings, apple juice, woody cork, and some leather shoe in the finish. Full-bodied and complex. Very peculiar and enigmatic, but certainly not bad.

poured into a tulip. pours a bubbly golden amber with full bubbly frothy head. yeastie sour aroma, mild carbonation on palate. semi yeastie complexity, mouthfeel of champagne. good, but I could not notice the figs, complexity with tart yeastiness...

in the bottle at beertopia shelton brothers sample night. pours a cloudy deep gold with a thin white head. bit of an aldehyde aroma. this is slightly medicinal with a touch of bitterness at the end. a super-quick finish and a big fizzy palate. if this were a homebrew, I would declare it to be contaminated, but since it is a Belgian, they likely intended for it to taste this way.

pours a cloudy light brown/caramel color. Aroma is slightly sour, and a little like a lambic, i’m getting some fruit, but its sour fruit. Flavour is sour, and slightly fruity. NOt sure i’m getting much fig in here, the funk is comming through, definitely an interesting beer.

pours cloudy gold with big head. aroma is a sweet brett, citrus, and some grass. taste is brett with some citrus and grass. some hay-like characteristics. not bad.

75 cl bottle via lubiere, shared with Phil, cellar temp in a tulip glass. JN07/07.

App.: Cloudy golden-orange, huge yellow-tan head. Aroma: Tart and tangy, funky, some barnyard, some floral notes, lemons, some green herbal notes; little sweet honey in back. Palate: Smooth, medium body, soft effervescence. Flav.: Honey, flowers, light sour apple, grapes, funky and tangy; lemony; sour finish with moderate bitterness.

Aroma of strong citrus, yeast and some spice. hazy, yellow coloured with a lasting, off-white head. Taste is slightly sour, bit sweet, yeasty with lots of citrus and a cheesy background. Refreshing and dry. Reminded me of Berliner Weisse.