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Brewed by La Choulette
Style: Fruit Beer
Hordain, France
Serve in Flute

bottled
common

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RATINGS: 222   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.23   EST. CALORIES: 186   ABV: 6.2%
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La Choulette, in the beer-loving north of France, is a small, charming farmhouse brewery that dates back to 1885. La Choulette's bierre de garde now stand among the greatest beers in the world.


2.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 4/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
npdempse (932) - St. Petersburg, Florida, USA - AUG 15, 2003
No sir, not up to snuff. Yellowish pink, with a bubbly white head that quickly disappears. Sweet aroma of raspberry yogurt mixed with a bit of tangy funk. Strong raspberry flavor, fairly sweet, with an odd bitter sourness at the end, not at all like proper lambic, but hard to place. Watery mouthfeel.

3.3
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Jokes (1453) - Chicago, Illinois, USA - AUG 1, 2003
Lively cork. Pours a deep berry red. The head was light and fluffy, slightly off-white and leaving a decent sheet of lace on the glass. The aroma is dominated by tart raspberries with faint notes of malt in the back. Tart fruit instantly hits the tongue when commencing drinking. A bit of sweetnees comes out, but the beer remained tart and acidic throughout. Not very complex, but the flavor isn't terrible. An easy drinking summer beer, but not really something I would drink that often.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
CaptainCougar (6857) - Columbia, Maryland, USA - JUL 20, 2003
Light copper with ruby hues throughout and a big thick white head. Aroma is toasted malt and raspberries. Flavor is full, with good balance between a soft malty body and a sweet, yet tart raspberry juice. Finishes dry and fruity. A very enjoyable and well balanced fruit beer, although it's more like a biere de garde with raspberry juice.

4.4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 9/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
JPDIPSO (4957) - Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA - APR 15, 2003
Yes, this cork nearly did kill me!!! One little push with the thumb sent it EXPLODING out. Amber, with a touch of ruby, color with a diminishing fluffy pink head. Joss nails it with raspberry yogurt aroma. Quite like raspberry soda to start, then a nice light malt spine. Acidity just enough to wipe out the sweetness. Borders on being to sweet and soda like, but the finish is so nice, that it helps you forget you are drinking a "fruity brew". If the finish was not there, this would be another "berry weiss" type brew. This would be an ideal picnic brew.

2.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 10/20
jonas (4613) - Garching b. München, GERMANY - MAR 18, 2003
Raspberry yogurt aroma - makes me hungry yum. neon redwine color, no head. Pretty neutral and Watery. Boring - next.

3.9
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 15/20
RichardGretton (3759) - Leicestershire, ENGLAND - FEB 2, 2003
Red beer with an ale head, rather than a typical kriek style head which is very light and soon disappears. The aroma is dominanted completely by strawberries producing a vimto like aroma. The flavour is a mixture between the malts of a biere to garde, the hops of an English bitter and a strawberry fruit beer. Very light and refreshing, I think it would make a great summer beer.

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
mwesth (279) - Skovlunde, DENMARK - AUG 19, 2002
A nice biere de garde with raspberry juice added. Very refreshing, but a bit too sweet for me.

3.2
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
MartinT (6350) - Montreal, Quebec, CANADA - JUL 21, 2002
Very sweet raspberries stuck together in a heap by old bubblegum…The juice they yield, while you try give them freedom, is wine-like and doughy…Refreshing but way too sweet…

3.5
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
daboskabouter (1470) - Fergus, Ontario, CANADA - FEB 13, 2002
Very nice aroma of raspberries and a great dark amber color. Body is quite maltily sweet with just a touch of tartness in the palate. Smooth and drinkable, but a little sweet for me.

2.6
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 10/20
omhper (15965) - Stockholm, SWEDEN - JAN 21, 2002
Deep red. Light bodied, sweet, vanillaish, sweetish raspberry flavour and light bitterness.


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