Brasserie d’Oc LOccita

Brewed by Brasserie d’Oc
Style: Brown Ale
Mèze, France

Bottle - 750ml. Pours a cloudy chestnut brown body with good carbonation and a diminishing off-white bubbly head. Well balanced malty/hoppy aroma with yeasty, oaky, and spicy hints. Taste, however, is slightly misbalanced and carries some aciditic sodium notes. This could be because this sample did travel a lot before ending up at my place. Ends with a short bitter/sour finish. Thanks Soso for this bottle.

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with some sediment floating around under an orangey head. The aroma is sweet with notes of over ripe fruits and stale prunes. The flavor is sweet with an acidic edge and notes of malt and fruit. I had a sneeze attack from drinking it.

Clear deep amber with tiny off white head. Sweet fruity aroma with caramel and toasted malt. Sweet flavor with caramel, toasted malt, plums and yeasty notes. Ends sweet.

As Jardin Secret Ambrée
Hazy chestnut color. It has a light chocolate flavor, lost in a weak mouthfeel; light caramel aroma. Extremely easy beer.

Bottle. [After party @ Papsoe, thanks buddy] Average creamy beige head that mostly diminished. Fair display of lacework. Clear amber color. Aroma of grass, grain, fruit. Over the palate mild spice, and roasted malty notes. Medium bodied with an average carbonation. Light sweet flavor with a hint of bitterness. Light spicy and sweet finish. 5 / 3 / 5 / 3 / 12

33 cL bottle. Pours brown and slight cloudy with a lacing off-white head. Malt aroma and mild spiced. Flavour is roasted malt and light acidic. Before the finish this goes into a flavour that is mild roasted and light spiced. Finish is lingering roasted and light spiced.
Earlier Rating: 2/27/2008 Total Score: 3
33 cL bottle, thanks to Ambassador. Pours hazy brown with a little off-white head. Wineous and fruity aroma. Flavour is smoked, medium dry. Light acidity and a mild roasted malt base. Ends dry and smoked.

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of fiulijn. Almost clear amber golden with an off-white head. Lightly ashy nose. Medium body with a little fruit and ashes before a dry finish. Almost a Brown Ale. 200608

(Bottle 33 cl) Courtesy of Ambassador/yespr. Slightly hazy amber golden with a dense, off-white head. Unpleasant aroma of solvents. Medium body with roasted malt accents and some smoke. Short, dry finish. 2/3/3/2/7=1.7 260208

[Odense-tasting at Scheffel. Bottle from thewolf.] Grey mudbrown look with fast white head. Some weak spices, brown ale notes, sweet, medium to thin body, but not that bad. Harmless!