Sainte-Hélène La Frangine Bière de Gaume Ambrée

Brewed by Brasserie Sainte Hélène
Style: Belgian Ale
Virton, Belgium

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle 75 cl. Pours an cloudy amber with a lively but dissipating off-white head. Aroma is a little foul and chemical yet also with a whiff of honey. Medium body, overripe fruit, yeast and phenols. Warming alcohol in the finish. 280110

Bottle 75cl. @ home.
[ Trade by SHIG ]. Clear medium to dark amber color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity - berry, moderate yeasty, soap, leather - woody. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average duration, and a peppery finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20090512]

Bottle @ Vilvordia Bierproef Festival, Jette, Brussels. Pours a hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Fruity malty spicy flavor with some hoppy hints. Has a fruity malty spicy bitter finish.

75cl, new exclusive brew Anno 2008, from Willems Grobbendonk, complex brew, balanced, hazy, rocky head, good brew

Tasted at VBPF, Jette 25.04.’09. Hazy almost amber color, with creamy head. Aroma malts, hops, fruit. Medium body. Taste spice, malts, good bitterness. Bitter aftertaste. Good.

Huge dense cream-coloured head over hazy amber beer with a faint mossy shine. Bananaester & caramelmalt, fruity & leafy, and finishing on fine noble hops. Good! Bitterish, hoppy, on an underbuild of caramel that is just not sweet. Dry, leafy even earthy flavours, undergrowth, moss and oak. Excellent balance in addition. Medium bodied, titillating, slightly burning MF. Excellent, another brewery that is bettering its act, instead of lapsing into slumber. This is a beer that could be drunk anytime, on any occasion.