Gavroche

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

dark brown, heavy mouse oveflow when opening bottle! Aroma of spice and caramel. taste is choclatey, toffee lots of sweetness in the aftertaste, burned cereals

Bottle 330ml. Delicious beer. Aromas of vanilla, toast, chocolate, and alcohol. Taste is sweet, with bitter notes; long and warm alcoholic finish. Creamy palate, medium-to-full body. Brown, with a creamy white head.

Bottle bought in Carrefour Calais, France. Deep ruby coloured pour with a huge head. Sweet aroma, Tastes quite sweet, roasty, malty, bready, fruity. Quite complex for a biere de garde. Nice one, will get some more on my next trip across the channel.

330mL bottle, pours a cloudy amber with a huge beige head. Sweet aroma of dark fruits, caramel malt and yeast. Flavour follows suit, with a lingering sourness, dryness and yeasty taste. Nice beer.

330 ml bottle from Belmont Party Supply. All head on the pour, a big rocky beige mess that leaves plenty of lacing. Underneath is a slightly cloudy amber-colored beer. Aroma of sour yeast, caramel malts, berry fruits, and toast. Flavor is also sour and malty, a little funky, with notes of berries, caramel, bread, paper, and metallic notes. Dry, bitter, and alcoholic on the finish. Medium bodied, with average carbonation and a metallic and malty mouthfeel. Decent beer. Nose: Rather muted with some slightly sour stone fruit notes, some light caramel and milk chocolate notes. Almost like chocolate covered cherries. Palate: Medium bodied and with crisp/sharp carbonation. Lots going on here. The chocolate covered cherry thing continues and is met with strawberry and light toffee/butteriness. The palate is really sharp at first, but as the carbonation releases the taste buds, they are overwhelmed with fruit and dark candies. Notes: Had no earthly idea what to expect from this beer. I bought it simply because it was from French Flanders. Stunning beer. Wish we could get it here.

33cl bottle: This one pours a slightly hazy, amber color. There was a fairly big ecru head that dropped away rather quickly. The aroma is nice. It is somewhat bready, with some faint caramel malts. Some faint fruits in there also, as well as a light amout of earthy hops. It is a bit "tingly" on the tongue. Some dark fruits, caramel, and a dryness in the finish. Pretty decent.

About 1/3 of the content jumped on the table immediately after opening. The rest porured hazy ruby to dark copper wit a huge, fluffy and slightly tanned head. Sweet caramel and creamy toffy on the nose. Bready malts, dark fruits, raisins and some plums. Burnt sugar or syrup and touch of alcohol in the finish. The taste is dryish malty with some sweeter fruitness and sugary elemets. Quite alcoholic finsih. The palate is medium bodied but finishes a bit thin. High-carbonated, sharp and alcoholic texture, ends sticky.

Is this thing corked? Because the bottle lip would make you think it was. Very fruity aroma and slightly chemical. Nice red/amber cloudy pour into a snifter at L’Albatros in Cleveland, with an inch tall off-white head. The flavor was incredibly similar to a Williamsburg Pale Ale. Not my thing.