Gavroche

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

Serve in Stem glass, Tulip

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Name: Gavroche French Red Ale
Date: 08/03/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy light amber, fine creamy white head, sweet biscuit malt flavor with some nice toasted, light bitter finish

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a extremely large sized head of all foam finely sized tan colored bubbles that was mostly lasting and left behind a hazy strongly carbonated brown colored body. The aroma was hoppy malty musty cinnamon and Irish Red malty. The vinous mouth feel was tingly from start to finish. The flavor contained notes of vinegar malt and hops. Not one that I would buy again. It was just off.

Dark reddish color, slightly cloudy; big, off-white head. Alcohol, caramel, and a fruity touch in the aroma. I found it rather monodimensional... syrupy maltiness, and just a slight tarty note in the finish. Full bodied. Alcohol is a bit too evident.

Clear reddish pour with large frothy off white head. Musty, rather unpleasant aroma. Metallic, milky aroma. Funk, must, Kind of sweet, hard to describe. Some booze, kind of astringent. Very hard to describe. Earthy.

Cloudy orange colour with a small beige head. Malty, toffee sweet aroma with a fruity and light yeasty note. Malty, caramel sweet flavor with notes of fruit. Light dry floral finish.

its quite good. The Alcohol actually hits you hard at first, caramel and slight cereal makes this good. the malts is nice and hops are little in presence. The rest of the beer is a pleasant expirence.

Bottled. Thanks oh6gdx. Hazy brown in colour, minor white head. The aroma is sweet with rasins and yeast. The flavour is alcohol like with rasins and malt.

cobber of color with a beige head. An aroma of malt, hops and boring toffee. A flavor of toffee and hops.

Bottle. [ Thanks to oh6gdx ] Clear medium amber color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, molasses, bread, roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. (271007)

Bottle. Pours cloudy dark/rich orange. Decent head with nice long lasting lacing. Dry yeast on the nose. Bread. Dirt and earth. Lively carbonation. Quite dry on the palate. Very yeasty. Earth. Just a hint of fruit turning slightly metallic. Zero fro two from this brewery for me. Just not a huge fan of the house style.