Gwiniz Du

Brewed by Brasserie Britt (Brasserie de Bretagne)
Style: Traditional Ale
Trégunc, France

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Stein, Yard

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Bottled 33cl
Dark ruby, good off-white head. Light fruity (plums) nose. Medium-bodied. Carbonated. Fruity flavors (plum, fig) in the quite light malty base. Hints of sugar. Some yeasty notes and woody aftertaste.

Nice hazy reddish amber with a thin off white head. Sweet malt and fruity aroma, with prunes and light berry notes. Sweet caramel malt with peaty nutty notes, and a nice vinous finish. Medium bodied. Hybrid between a brown ale and a bière de garde.

Dark brown hazy hue with reddish highligts, thick foamy head, sweet, fruity of raisins, prunes in a soft wheatfield of buckwheat follows through on a medium-bodied palate with sweet mallted caramel, chocolate leading to his fruity aspect of prune and raisin hiding well his bitterness finish.

In Au Trappistes in Paris: This has a lovely brown body and light creamy head. The chocolate nose impresses but the overall experience is let down by a fairly sparse body. While this is on lees there are no notes of diacetyl or autolysis. Good lacing all the way down

Yeasty barnyard sour malt, some bread, and light hops. Clear dark red-brown with foamy light tan lacing head. Medium body with medium-heavy carbonation. Starts with light acidity, sweet caramel malt. Raw vegetable. Finish is light bitter with acidic tang, same light sweetness. After is mild nutty bitterness, but not lasting or strong.

Bottle. Golden (hazy if you pour the whole beer) orange/red colour with a beige head. Malty aroma. Has an unpleasant metallic aroma in the beginning, but it disappears as it warms, and makes way for buckwheat instead. The flavour is malty and it has a slight sourness, but is also sweet. A bit dry. Not so much to say. A decent beer.

[At Fete de la Biere 2004, Lausanne] A dark amber beer with a fine head. The aroma is sweet malty and the flavor is sweet with notes of roasted bread. A fine beer.

Ample buckwheat roastiness leading to nascent oxidation...Dry fruit in a bed of ashes creating suggestive caramel sweetness...I am afraid I have to condemn it for inducing boredom...

Deep orangey copper body with no head, but intense carbonation. Light malty aroma with licorice and dark fruits. The flavors come out rather strong at first, but they just don’t carry in the finish, that is particularly watery while being slightly tart. In the middle, there’s a big sugary and peppery rye and acid fruits aspect, but the shortness kills it. A bit too candyish, but I like its differences, if only it had a bit more lenght...

Brown color with reddish hues. Cloudy like every other Britt I’ve had the privilege to taste. Very subtle aroma of malt, fruit (maybe melon) and caramel. The flavor is slightly tart and fruity (melon). Bitter finish. A strange and intriguing beer.