La Choulette Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie La Choulette
Style: Bière de Garde
Hordain, France

Best before Dec ’05. Pours medium gold into a tulip. Bright white micro/congomerate head leaves lacing as it recedes. Bread, hay, caramel and honey aromas. Creamy caramel with a sweet honey finish. Almost cloying, but as it is just short -- and dry -- it is nontheless enjoyable.

Thanks to my colleague Peter for bringing this back from France. Golden colour with a white head. The aroma and character of this 75cl bottle developed interestingly during the half hour I was enjoying it. My final impression was of a yeasty aroma and a rich fruity taste with sweetness, dough and spice and a background dryness. Good.

Light golden in color with a rambunctious head. Aromas of flowers, perfume, figs and leathery yeast. Tastes a bit sweet (with malts), and finishes very light, which is both delicate and disappointing.

Bottle from Super Saver. Hazy gold pour with aroma of hopcitrus, fruit, and some candi sugary malt. Tastes hopcitric, fruity, with some barnyardy yeast hints plus some pear and green apple in the finish. Stays pretty carbonated througout.

Bottle, from Fabeers in York. Deep gold, good white head and moderate condition. Gentle flowery hops and sweetly fruity malt in the nose, more grainy sweetness in the mouth with hints of melon and some balancing nuttiness that lingers into the finish but stays predominantly sweet and malty.

Bottle 25cl. Delirium cafe, Brussel. Golden beer with a small head and some yeast particals. Smells malty, a bit herbal(odd).Tastes malty and sweet with some cellar notes(bbe: april ’06). Finishes sweetish, sourrish, slighly bitter and a little cardboard(a pity). Nice one.

This has the strangest aroma, lots of wetness going on, somewhat damp garage, pine box, animals that have been out in the rain, with some very ripe fruitiness on the other end of the scale. Nice dry herbal flavors, with a bit of fruitiness, that is very welcomed and stays very light on the palate throughtout the entire session, and the flavors are somewhat blurred, but not bad.

Poured a filtered clear gold with a soft fading head. Aromas of bananas and flowery noble hops, and flavors of banana, green apple, lemon, and herbs. Medium body and maltiness leaves a nice light honeyish finish. Refreshing but still sweet.