Cimes Piste Noire

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Hazy amber colour with a slim white head. Fruity, malty aroma. Sweet and fruity taste with a light bitter finish. Medium bodied, easy to drink. Not bad.

From A Bottle.Amber brown in colour with no head,aroma is of summer fruit, taste is sweet and fruity with some malt,clean tasting.

Instant caramel nutty flavour.Nice colouration,very easy drinking beer.Whats not to like?I feel that i wont get to try this again,so its quite special...I like it.

Not sure what to make of this one. Brownish appearance with just a slight hint of sourness. Traces of bitterness although i would not describe this as a complex beer but it is still a quite interesting one.

Sweet rye bread aroma, light brown sugar. Mild hops, kind of floral. Clear amber with touch of brown, clear, with thin off-white lacing head. Medium-heavy watery body with medium carbonation. Starts sweet with some rye, brown sugar, caramel malt, and some roasted dry character. Medium carbonic acidity toward the finish, with just little staleness or metallic quality. Medium hops tang, and just a little bitter. Can taste some alcohol, though it’s only 5.9%. After is dry, with some bitter cooked pea/rye flavor. Not a bad amber.

in chambery, france: drank this one with a strawberry donut and some demiglasse. whiffed by me like a stormtrooper ready to take the house. but copper colored instead of white and reaking of malty sweet caramel shoes. some slight fruit hop notes maybe. if your lucky. my impression was this was an amber of somesort not a belgian style ale. some strange combinations in these french alp breweries.

[At Fete de la Biere 2004, Lausanne] An amber beer with a fine lasting beige head. The aroma is sweet hoppy. The flavor is sweet with caramel dominating.

Plain looking amber ale with a generally dry aroma that has a touch of malt finish. The flavour is quite odd as it dry and whisky like. Overall quite a poor malt whisky style drink.