Saint-Monon Ambrée

Brewed by Brasserie Saint-Monon
Style: Belgian Ale
Ambly, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

From ZBF 2010. Pours a slight hazy yellow. Dried light fruits and apricot aroma. Taste is powdery, grainy, light-bodied. Meh.

Bottle at Zythos Beer Festival 2010 in St Niklaas. Orange and clear, aroma of citrus. Slightly sweet citrus taste, maybe some apricot. Decent but unexciting.

On the label, Dolmenius St-Monon. A hazy orange colored beer, with a big beige head. It disappears quickly. The aroma of sweet fruits, like peach. Some spices in the back. The taste of sweet fruits, citrus and peach. A little bitter with some coriander. The aftertaste is sweet with a little bitter.

33cl bottle from Dranken Geers. Hazy amber red colour with very thin beige head. Woody aroma. It’s got some orangey type fruit in the mouth, with some malt to back it up. Unfortunately the woodyness dominates and makes it, if not unpleasant to drink, then less appealing.

Bottle, bought @ Willems, Grobbendonk.
[thanks to Skou for bringing this home to me]
Pours fine orange (not really amber) with a small, fizzy, off-white head. Aroma has lots of oranges, light citric, some biscuity malts and yeast. Medium to high carbonation, rather watery palate. Flavour is sweet, light bready and biscuity malts mixing with fruity esters and light hops. Fairly drinkable, but not terribly exciting.

Amber colored brew. Fruity, yeasty aroma. Flavor is yeasty, some citrus, some sweetness, a bit wheat. Kinda nice, but thin.

Light amber in color and cloudy with a decent sized white head. Aroma is of light hops, wheat and citrus. Taste is the same.

Tasted in 2004: Orange color, a bit cloudy. Vanilla and orange aroma. Just a bit yeasty flavor with vanilla, cinnamon and orange. Not bad, even has a bit of complexity.