Saint-Germain Page 24 Bière de Noël

Brewed by Brasserie Saint-Germain
Style: Bière de Garde
Aix-Noulette, France

750 ml bottle thanks to Brent from redlight redlight. Pours a rosy amber. Pretty fruity nose with hints of bubblegum and warm spices. The flavor is slightly sweet with a bitter finish. Surprisingly dry. This may not be the fairest rating as I have a cold.

Caramelly, nutty, aromas with figs and candied plums with a slight spice. Pours reddish amber with a thin white head. Smooth and malty with slight caramel and toffee notes and a spicy dry finish. Nice biere de garde.

Name: Page 24 Bier de Noel
Date: December 29, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: hazy orange, wispy beige head
Aroma: sweet fruity aroma with a drying earthy spicyness
Flavor: sweet and fruity flavor, nice spicyness, balancing earthyness, light bitter finish
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

An amber brown color with a good head leaving behind a thin satin canopy. Smells of darkfruit with minerals. Medium nectar with ample effers. This brew is uneventful featuring a lot of not much in terms of flavor. Just mildly sweet cornering darkfruit. Worth drinking but I would not pay for this. Thin around the edges, no mid palate and a boring finish. Why do they even make beer like this?

Bottle@Home. Citrus, toffee and a hint of raisin in the aroma. Brown colour, beige irregular head, few lace. Sweet, light citric, light bitter, some citrus, hint of toffee, some spices. Light bodied, sticky mouth feel. Easy going, bit too sweet but still nice.

750ml Bottle: Aroma of fruit, apple, and light yeast. Poured amber/copper in color with a small, fizzy, tan head that diminished quickly but lasted around the edges. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Full of tiny particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of malts, caramel, light yeast, light fruit, slight spices, light honey, and a hint of wood. Medium body. Tingly, slightly dry texture. Average to lively carbonation. Sweet, malt, caramel, honey finish.

Bottle - 75cL swing-top - from the Rare Beer Club. Pours a translucent copper with a short, fading white head. Aroma is grassy and yeasty with dried fruit, light caramel, and sweet malt. Taste is sweet malt, light caramel, hints of honey, dusty yeast, grassy hops and soft spices. Body is light-medium and the carbonation delicate. Ends with more honey, sweet malt, dried fruit notes, spices, light yeast, caramel, straw and grassy hops.

750 ml swing top bottle poured a hazy dark amber with a small lasting tan head. Aromas of pear, toffee,cherry, light spice, yeast and light carmel. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of pear, yeast, spice, toffee and light carmel with a smooth lingering yeasty spice finish.