Canardou La Nonnette

Formerly brewed at Brasserie Artisanale du Canardou
Style: Bière de Garde
Nastringues, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Pours brown-black with just a little bit of head. Spices, barley, dried wood, odd earthy flavours on this dark brew. Taste is coffee, spice and coriander, a sharp taste, almost a hint of christmas herbs in there. Unique and interesting, but still suffers from a wateriness that most of these French organic brews seem to have, and that I don’t like.

11th April 2009
Bottle from La Cave A Bulles. Triple grain beer. Opaque very dark brown in colour. Crisp palate. Creamy malts. Nuts! Walnuts and others. Light toasted malt. Smooth creamy finish. Nice!

Bottle at home in London. Pours a clearish, ruby-brown with a soft, beige head. Aroma is sweet, lightly roasted malts, some caramel and mild chocolate, some bark. Decent flavor, roasted, slightly charred malts, brown sugar, some vanilla, faintly bitter. Light to medium in body with lively carbonation. Semi-sweet finish, some lingering roastiness, hints of rich bread. Very nice beer.

bottle from jaghana - merci! Deep brown, nearly black colour with a red touch, small beige head. Shy aroma of coffee. Malty, hints of caramel, coffee, grainy, hints of wholemeal bread. Unusual beer, but interesting.

Bottle 33cl. A brown and cloudy beer with no head and soft carbonation. This beer has almost no smell except a small coffee note ! Aroma is on grain but with acid and astringent flavor, small toasted notes, notes of vomit from the yeast. Bread flavor too, but the wrong yeast smell do break the whole balance, paper notes at the end, not great.

5.6% abv on bottle label, bought @ La Cervoiserie. triple grains, pours dark brown, quickly disappearing tan head. aromas, malty, lots of grains, good roast and coffee with mild nose of caramel. flavors, while not groundbreaking, the 3 grains give this low abv beer a nice malty profile full of grains, malts, caramel; mild chocolate, touch of mocha and coffee. Profile and finish have a mild hop bitterness along with a subdued yeasty mouthfeel. This is definitely not the beer style as entered, more along a brown ale. Tasty.

Aroma : caramel, roasty, earthy, finish on smoky, woody, spices Poor with not foam, slighly sparkling, a bit weak Some difficulties to find the belgian ale in there. Alcohol doesnt come at all in the taste. Not really well bodied, remember schwarzbier from Germany, that I always find light-boddied. Not bitter at all as I read from other persons here.

Bottled. Brown with brown head. Aroma of dryness. Flavor is yeasty with malt, fruit and spices

Bottle BB 11/2010. Pours a rather dark brown with a tan head. Roasted caramel aroma. Near medium body with frothy carbonation. Flavor is dark toast and a touch of coffee. Could be a hint of peat smoke. There is some spice and fruit, but very understated. It is rather astringent. If I had to guess blind, I’d put it down as stout. There may be anise, but it’s rather subdued. Actually the anise seems to manifest with time. Good ale.

Botella. Black colour, nice light brownish head. Sweet roasty caramel and malty breadish aroma. Good mouthfeel. Sweet roasty malty flavour with some spice, a milæd sourness and liquorice.