Larche Thomas Becket Blonde de Bourgogne

Brewed by Brasserie Larche
Style: Bière de Garde
Sens, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Pours with plenty of head, nice hazy orange, but again too much carbonation to be perfect. Aroma is plenty of hops, grassiness, stench of fermenting vegetables of some type. I would have preferred a little sweetness in there to make it a little more appealing. Taste is malts, slight caramel, lingering syrup, woody hints on the back as it then comes to an end with a bitter finish. Like so many new French microbrews, it needs some refinement and closer care and attention to become truly amazing.

Bottle. Creamy white good mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Moderate malty and hoppy and yeasty aroma. Moderate biter flavor. Week fruity esters. Average light bitter finish. Oily palate. Soapy.

UPDATED: MAR 5, 2012 Bottle from vinmonopolet. Hazy golden colour with a white head. Fruity aroma with citric notes. Sweet flavour with lots of frutiness.

Fruity taste and aroma, some grains to the finish. Yeasty aroma. Very well carbonated. Amber colour and solid, lasting white head. (33 cl bottle)

Bottle 330ml @ home
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, dried fruits and yeast. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

0.33l bottle. Pours a near murky orange body packed with dark sediments and it has a nice big bubbly off-white head. Aroma is really champagne yeasty with some citrus and sour green grapes. Tastes quite much sweeter than the nose would have me to believe. Has a nice medium body, average carbonated and feels light oily in the mouth. Mild and light sweet flavors, some malts in here as well as some fruits and it has a mild almost chocolate-like flavor. Ends light dry with a mild yeasty aftertaste. Quite surprised that it tasted like this after smelling it, but I liked it, and I’ve tasted my first Bière de Garde.

Bottle 330ml. @ home.

[ Trade by yngwie ]. Clear medium yellow colour with a average to large, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate yeasty, soap, spicy, fruity, coriander. Flavour is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, spicy yeast, soapy yeast, sweet fruit. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110603]

dorée, mousse blanche Arôme de levure avec des notes de houblons et citron et je note cet aspect d’esters en bouche où une fois encore nous avons une bière française qui est trop poussive sur la levure. Le palais garde des notes de houblon amer qui reste couvert par cette levure rappelant la levure belge d’abbaye. Le tout termine sur une fine note épicée.

Bottle. Hazy gold, fluffy head. Rather Belgian aroma and yeast profile. Smooth, apricots, a little sourness.

On tap @ restaurant Chateauroux (France). Almost clear golden color with medium white head. Aroma malts, bit yeast, fruit touch. Medium body. Taste like a regular blonde, sweet, matls, fruits, dry end. Not bad.

Hazy golden with a large white head - fruity yeasty aroma - the same yeasty taste along with some malt - nice beer