fiulijn (5880), Como; Lausanne (CH); Malmö (SWE), Italy Jan 9, 2002 [2000 brew, 5.6% ABV] Amber ale. Very nice hop aroma, lightly spicy, fruity. Lovely flavour, balanced in sweetness and bitterness, with prevalence of hop in the final; dry. Long aromatic palate. The basic ingredients, malt and hop, but brewed with real Art. dirkbreedveld (225), Netherlands Jun 19, 2002 good quality amber, which can compeed with the tradional Palm, it’s not my type of beer, but beautiful presented and pleasing Spiesy (2331), Global Citizen, Greater London, England Jan 1, 2005 Bottled. Cloudy amber colour topped with a beautiful big foam. Postcard material this. Litchi aroma, sweet with some acidity, with the balance of prima ballerina. Exceptional drop that I’ve been looking forward to rating. I picked the set of 3 La Gauloise beers up in Brugge recently and this was the stand out. Bov (4659), Bienne, Switzerland Jan 22, 2001 cloudy amber colour, beautiful big foam, litchi aroma, sweet with some acidity - very pleasant maeib (4012), Wootton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England Feb 18, 2006 Bottled. An amber coloured beer with a lovely long lasting white head. The aroma is very yeasty with some lemon notes and a real medicinal character. Relatively spicy and peppery. Inviting. The taste is also yeasty and a little herbal. Nice hoppy bitterness and a bit of an Orval thing going on.
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