Gavroche

Brewed by St. Sylvestre
Style: Bière de Garde
St. Sylvestre-Cappel, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

Bottle from Beers of Europe. Toffee apple aroma. Cloudy reddish brown colour, biggest head I’ve ever had on a beer. Strong malty sweet and sour flavour with long aftertaste. Not really to my liking.

Dark red ale. Slightly sour taste almost like a granny apple. Very juicy. Rated 8/9/08

Pours reddish amber with huge frothy head; aroma of toasted caramel, dried fruits and berries; medium body, foamy carbonation; flavor of toffeish malt and dried fruits; finish is slightly hoppy, hot and spicy.

Pours dark amber with a huge white head that lasts for ever, and leaves tons of lacing. Tons of malt, toffee, biscuit, caramel with a touch of alcohol warming in the aftertaste. Might have benefited with some aging , but there is a nice flavour and it goes down real smooth.

Pours amber with a thick cream head. Fabulous-looking beer (some people are clearly using the appearance rating to adjust their scores - or "blind" doesn’t mean either of the things I thought). Deep toffee aroma with prunes, figs and white pepper. Taste is sweet and at first delicate. Light touches of dark molasses-like sugars. Macerated cherries. Carbonated mouthfeel, but still rich and pretty heavy. Dry finish with a little sour cherry and alcohol hotness. Reminds me of various fortified wines - lovely but a little po-faced.

not what i expected it to be, i think i was thinking more of a farmhouse ale or saison, but this is so well balanced, nice hio kick on the front of the tongue, with a malty sweetness that goes down so easy. really interesting and complex beer, HUGE white head that took at least 5 minutes to dissapate enough for me to take a sip. very interesting to say the least.

Bouteille de 33 cl de chez Terra Vinea à Morteau (F). Bière cuivrée rouge très saturée, mousse beige claire abondante et sarabande de bulles fines et drues. Nez de malt assez fruité, sans aspérité, épicé, un peu alcooleux, Bouche généreuse et veloutée, texture douce et moëlleuse, goût malté-orange. Elle semble, au début, plus légère que son degré alcoolique, mais on se rend vite compte de son opulence.

Shared this one w/SkyCop32. Pours a great amber color not like most biere de Garde. Light but strong. Honey sweet but the alchol hangs out a bit to much.