Bottled. A mahogany brown coloured beer with no head. The aroma is malty with brown sugar, brown bread and alcohol notes. The taste is also nice and malty. Berry fruits and raisins amidst a woody background. A nice body and a real nice taste. Amazing how this brewery brews such variable beers.

(Bottle 33 cl) Gee, where did I get this beer? I don’t remember. But it doesn’t really matter either, because these Combe Aux Loups beers are excellent. This one is filtered, dark mahogany-coloured, nice head. Malty, slightly coffeeish with a discreet sweetness. Extremely harmonic and well balanced. 091203

<i>Bottled.</i> Dark brown. Sweet with clean maltiness. Some crystal malt character. Flowery, lighlty soapy finish with quite some bitterness.

Interesting and unusually dark biere de garde (in my experience anyway). Had a hard time describing it but here are my notes: "Heavy" fruits (plums, dates?), medium sweet (caramel), light alcohol.

Bottle@Les Planches pres Arbois, Jura, France. Brown beer with a reddish tinge and a light head. The aroma is watery, lightly roasted and caramel. The flavour is rich and quite weakly toffee. Overall a good mildly strong malty beer.