Abbaye de Crespin Secret Des Moines

Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant
Style: Bière de Garde
Douai, France

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

6.6% large bottle (75cl) with champagne cork, thin head, not much aroma, slightly malty and sweet.

750ml corked bottle from Aldi, Tavira, Algarve. Deep orange gold with a high uneven white head tufting the glass. Sweet yeasty aroma boasting hay, coriander, sherbet lemon, slight barnyard,custard and nutmeg spiciness, some boiled vegetal notes. Soft and sherbety with discreet tangerine and green dusty spice; parsley, maybe orange peel. Silky and flavoured, difficult to pin down, faintly oozing quality and compared to my last 37 beers, SOUL. Quality.

Bottle. Golden body with a medium off white head. Fruit, malt, caramel and light hops in aroma. Flavour is quite yeasty with notes of fruit and light hops. Medium bodied.

Bottled(750ml). -Who would’ve tell that I would be second to rate this beer, and first after almost six years. Will it be as bad as SilkTork wrote or has it become better through the years?
Well, Nothing special here but it deserves more than 1.7. Sweet malty, mild wheaty and weak spicy with notes of rice and touch of alcohol in the sweet finish. 6.6%ABV.

A medium quality, characterless, boring, dull, lifeless, nondescript......yawn.