Cap d’Ona Ambrée du Cap

Brewed by Brasserie Cap d’Ona
Style: Bière de Garde
Argelès-sur-Mer, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy ruby, with a small off white head that diminishes quickly. Aromas of toasted malts, caramel, nuts and a slight fruity note. Not a lot more going on in the flavour department, but it leans a bit more towards roasted malts here than on the nose. Alcohol does come through a bit in the finish, which is a bit bland and watery. Medium to light bodied, sparse carbonation. Could have used more bubbles. Otherwise alright, but nothing to seek out.

330ml bottle (One Pint Pub, Helsinki, Spanish Weeks 2011)
5 slightly weird sweet stodgy gingery aroma
. Ginger only comes through as a hint in the retr 3 Mid orange, small brief off-white head.
5 Weird, wonderful rettronasals - an explosion in an ester factory. Messy sweet body, residuall sugars high. Almost acrid wooliness. 3+ sweetness already covered, it is a little over-smooth, but shy of slimy. Carbonation helps keep that at bay. Finish makes the most of the woolines, with a nice dry wooly bitterness. Definitely better when the beer isn’t in you mouth!
10 No sign of 6.5% at all. Not really a particularly good beer, but once you’re past the weird initial hump, and don’t let the retronasals kick in, the dry bitterness in the finish keeps you wanting another glug.

Red coppery body, white head. Aroma of malt, berries and sugar, little sourness. Flavour has raisins, berries, caramelly malt and alcohol warmth.

330 ml bottle. As Cap d’Ona Ambrée Torrada. From Reims, France. Courtesy of Brandman.
Clear amber colour with tiny head. Malt, mild sourness, mild bitterness and that’s about it. Flavour is pretty much the same. Quite smooth. Some alcohol. Not my favourite.

UPDATED: JUL 18, 2011 33cl. bottle from a beer retailer. It pours a not entirely clear copper liquid with a medium-high beige head that lasts throughout the beer but leaves almost no lacing. The aroma is light, mostly malty, sweet. There are hints of caramel and a little toffee. There is also a nice presence of yeast. It tastes far more complex, basically malty, with a nice mixture of caramel, toffee, nuts, dried fruits, yeast and a few ripe dark fruits. Very high sweetness. In the mouth it feels light-medium bodied, with a mild and kind of lively little bubble carbonation. It ends dry, with an aftertaste of sweet caramel and ripe fruit. Presentation is average (and no customzed crown cap) for a caprice beer.

Bottle 330ml.
Clear light medium amber color with tiny body particles, a small average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, sugar, vintage notes, nutty notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091114]

Cloudy orange with a tiny white head. Aroma had overripe fruits, toasted malt and oxydized notes. Flavour was somewhat oxydized with overripe fruits and toasted malt. Finished sweet.

Bottled. A hazy dark amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is cloyingly sweet with notes of caramel, fruit, malt, and light notes of nuts. The flavor is sweet with notes of over ripe fruits, caramel, malt, and some moldy hops, leading to a dry finish.

Bottle, 6.5% as Torrada. Slow gusher. Dried fruit aroma. Amber colour, small floaties. Small tan head. The flavour is sweet, dried fruit, has a little yeast. Apart from the yeast, this is a good beer.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of MiP. Pours a cloudy amber with a rough off-white head. Sweet caramel aroma and lots of toffee. Medium body, sweet caramel and some sulphur. A little dryish finish. Pleasant. 141109