Cimes Bâton de Feu

Brewed by Brasserie des Cimes
Style: Bière de Garde
Aix les Bains, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Bottled. A hazy amber beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma has notes of fruit, yeast, and some malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, malt, fruits, and nuts, leading to a dry finish - nice. From the name I’d expected smoke - where is that, but still a nice beer.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of Ungstrup. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a firm white head leaving laces. Yeast and lots of fruit in the nose. Medium body, fruit, vitamins and minerals. A vague underlying tartness. 091109

33 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a thick and small white head. Aroma is spiced and slight yeasty. Yeasty and pehnolic flavorued. Light fruity and dry. Spiced and phenolic finish.

Bottled. Hazily golden. Almond aroma. Sweet and full bodied with toffee flavour. Dryish pleasant finish. Another fantastic beer from this brewery!

Cloudy golden with with a tiny white head. Sweet yeasty aroma with malty and yeasty notes. Sweet yeasty flavour with fruits and malty notes. Finished sweet.

Blond color. Light aroma, of malt, vanilla and corn. Good mouthfeel, quite sweet and malty but without character.

33cl bottle from Auchan, Calais. Attractive aroma. Golden colour with sediment in suspension. Good quality hop nose, some astringency. Having drunk a lot of French beer this last month or so, this is one of the better ones. I really like the hop aroma on this. Good in mouth with hoppy finish reminiscent of the flavours of an IIPA but far more subtle and far less in your face.

amber-orange colour, few foam, aromatic hops and a touch of apricot in the nose, full-bodied with a decent finishing bitterness, the aftertaste is dry and very long with a predominance of the aromatic hops and also notes of malt, caramel and smoke - very good