Blanche de Cambrai

Brewed by La Choulette
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Hordain, France

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

6th April 2009
Cloudy gold beer. Soft palate. Wheaty malt with some soft fruity touches - sweet orange and a hint of peach. A definite ginger note just before the soft semi dry finish. Very nice!

Blond ale, cloudy. Typical wheat ale aroma, ’spicy’, some agrumes, lightly corky. Good texture, balanced taste, some body, nice hop. Ordinary palate.

(Bottle 75 cl) Pale golden and slightly hazy with a tall and rather stable head. According to the label this comes with added spices - no mention of which though. It doesn’t have the typical Belgian notes of coriander and orange peel. The nose actually indicates cinnamon and cardamum! Surprisingly full-bodied with no bitterness. Interesting. 130802

Bottled: Very pale, very cloudy looking beer with a tall but short-living head. Aroma is herbal and sour-sweet with notes of citrus, apples, spices, yeast and hay. Taste is medium to heavy sweet with a nice herbal hoppy dry slightly astringent finish and a light body. Watery texture, soft carbonation. A very nice wheat beer with a rural charm.

#1200 bottle; nose is heavy sweet citrus, almost candy-like, lemon cordial. weak hay, very comfortable dry elderflower whiff, little spice, corn later, feel is mediumwatery, carb is medium, taste is thin with banana, hay, little sweet rosehip, decent citrus, late weak sour lemon and very mellow hops

750ml bottle. Really lovely farmyardy aroma, mixed with spicy coriander and lemon, herbal, with some gueuzy like qualities also in the nose. A little bit thin on the tongue, which was dissapointing, because i thought this would really like this given the aroma. Some nice typical orange/lemon and coriander, with some slight gueuzy acidity, interesting, but the flavour was a touch short and thin.

75cl bottle at home cloudy orange, thick white slightly fluffy head. aroma is faint orange, a bit dry, peach. perfume. flavor is a bit dry, faint peach, a bit bitter.yellow fruity, lemon peel, faint sweet. palate is quite soft. Not bad belgian white, but nothing special either. I like them a bit more citrussy, and a bit less bitter. Easy-drinking stuff. sessionable.

<b>Bottle 75cl.</b>
Unclear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, moderate fruity - mandarin, coriander. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (040908)