Laubicherie Bière de Ferme Blonde Truffe

Brewed by La Ferme de Laubicherie
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Sarlande, France

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Bottle: Poured a yellow with little to no head. The aroma is floral and earthy. Taste was pretty bland with light floral and barely.

Dec 2009: Brown dumpy 33cl bottle, obtained from Biershop De Bierboom in Brugge. This is a Blonde beer with truffles added, this small farm brewery do weird stuff with their beers. The famous French Black Truffles are found in the same aera as this beer is brewed. Poured into a Westmalle chalice with as much of the sediment as possible remaining in the bottle. The beer was a thin, pale yellow with no head at all, reminded me of a scrumpy cider in looks. There is also a very slight haze in the body, plenty of carbonisation, clearly see bubbles rising through the beer. Female pigs are used to find Truffles, they grow just below the surface and are found by smell. The smell given off is akin to the aroma a male pig gives off when after a mate. The smell of this beer wasn’t of pig sweat, but it wasn’t far off. A biliousness, disgustingly sweet vinagerous smell hits the nose, my vocabulary isn’t large enough to put the stench into words, sorry. I was looking forward to this beer, I have another one from the brewery, with Hazlenuts added I think, not looking forward to that so much now! The taste is weird too, a sweet sourness and nasty farmyard/horse/manure/fertilizer/pig taste produce something quiet unique in the beer world. Sadly it is an experience I wouldn’t want too try again. I might of course of had a bad bottle with a yeast infection!

Cloudy pale yellow, super bubbly with zero head. Aroma of truffles, earth, some banana. Taste more like a truffle soda than a beer. Not for me.

UPDATED: JUN 6, 2009 The first time I tasted that beer it was a good and nice one. The second time I drunk the beer, a few months later, I was rather disappointed. Maybe I had a bad bottle or something, but the beer had no head, no foam, looked sparkling (and sounded like sparkling) and when I looked at the beer itself it looked like (yellow) piss (really). The smell itself was quite OK: not too strong, but it smelled like truffle. But I was most of all disappointed about the flavour: the good flavour I had the first time was terrible this time: a truffle taste far too sharp that keeps hanging in your mouth unnicely. Halfway the glass I stopped and emptied the beer into the kitchen sink. Maybe I should try the beer again and give it another chance, but this one was really not good at all.