Coreff Brune

Brewed by Brasserie Coreff
Style: Porter
Carhaix, France

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

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Bottle. Blackish brown beer with a strongish head. The aroma is mildly roasted, and the flavour is sour and mildy spiced and roasted. Overall an average beer.

Amber-brown body and a big off-white head. Aroma of spices, barley, and alcohol. Taste is spices and barley, with a watery palate. Nothing to see here, move along, but it’s not awful or anything.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fiulijn. Pours a clear dark amber with an off-white head. Tart hard roasted malt in the nose. Rather light body, roasted malt and a metallic edge. A little malt bitterness in the finish. A poor Porter. 150610

50 cL bottle, courtesy of fiulijn. Pours clear and golden orange to brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, light fruity and breadish. Citrusy, peachy and roasted toffee malty and breadish. Mild roasted malty and lingering fruity.

Clear mahogany with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, caramel, nuts and dark fruits. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, caramel, dark fruits and hints of coffee. Finished sweet.

Bottled. A brown beer with a thin tan head. The aroma has otes of vinegar, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet and sour with notes of nuts and caramel as well as light notes of vinegar, leading to a somewhat tart finish. "Thanks" fiulijn for sharing.

Bottle 33cl. A dark amber beer with a medium carbonation but no head at all. Smell is nice and roasted, the taste is a bit malty, roasted kind of cereal aroma. Quite dry, some sourness at the finsih but the main thing is that the feeling is wattery. This would be better with more alcool / body.

Depuis 1985, la Bretagne a sa bière: COREFF. Questo sta scritto sull’etichetta della bottiglia da 50cl che ho comprato dal solito fruttivendolo in via della Maddalena. Quindi la Bretagna ha la sua birra, che fortuna. Peccato che questa birra faccia enormemente schifo: una delusione irrimediabile. Sono inizialmente molto curioso di provare una porter francese: verso nel bicchiere della Forst Sixtus che ho comprato a Merano, così anche per provarlo siccome non l’ho mai usato. Cerco di inclinare un pochino perché mi aspetto buona schiuma e invece... mi affretto a raddrizzare per riuscire a creare almeno un pochino di cappello... evanescente come non mai. Sapete perché? Questa birra è acida. Ma non acida in una maniera piacevole, acida come se fosse infetta: e sono felice di leggere che praticamente tutti i votanti hanno notato questa caratteristica. Ora: o mi assicurate che esiste una versione a posto di questa roba, oppure questa birra è un fiasco colossale. L’aroma è acido e alcolico, il sapore segue la sua falsariga e soltanto nel finale e nel retrogusto spunta fuori il carattere caffettoso/scuro della porter (per cui guadagna un punto di sapore). Per il resto: sentore alcolico troppo elevato per la gradazione e soprattutto questo molesto principio d’infezione che si scracagna nel cricotroco.

I wasn’t looking forward to trying this after reading some of the previous rates, especially about the sour/infected character found by many others. This poured a dark tawny colour with absolutely NO head...nothing! Initially, a good roast malt/coffee aroma hits you but that fades and a faint sourness appears and lurks in the background. It is thin and lacks anything in the way of body. There is definitely something not right with this, an unpleasant sour flavour dominates and spoils the whole experience. Part of a 6 bottle gift pack brought back from France by my bro...good god,I’ve got 5 more bottles to sample!

Bottled in l’Aviso
Foamy, brwon head. Black color. VEry strange brew. Aroma has much of the typical french goat camenbert. Flavor is sourly with again notes of goat chees. Sourly, astringent finish. Some roasted malt flavor. Very interesting, unusual beer.