St Feuillien / Green Flash Bière De L’Amitié

Green Flash Brewing Co.
Brewed at Brasserie St-Feuillien / Friart
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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(750ml bottle, courtesy of blutt59) Pours a hazy straw body with a tall white head. Aroma of banana, citrus, florals, pepper, herbs, and florals. Flavor of banana, herbs, Belgian yeast, citrus, and grass with a dry finish.

Name: Biere de L’Amitie
Brewery: Brasserie St-Feuillien / Friart
Date: October 04, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Hop City, Atlanta
Appearance: hazy light gold, tall frothy white head, lots of sticky lace
Aroma: sweet spicy aroma, pale malt sweetness, plenty of phenolic spicyness, floral hops
Body: light and bubbly body
Flavor: sweet and spicy flavor, sweet pale malt, phenolic spicyness adds balance and depth to the sweetness, floral hops, just a touch of finishing bitterness

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

Name: Friendship Brew
Date: November 19, 2012
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Kennesaw
Appearance: black, fine tan head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet spicy aroma, licorice spicyness, phenolic spicyness
Flavor: rich spicy flavor, lots of phenols blended with a variety of spices, sweet licorice, dark chocolate, spicy rye
Overall: funky and different, a nice change of pace

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.2/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+ /4

Draft. Small white head atop hazy apple juice body. Aroma is moderately sweet, straw, funk, some lemon. Taste is moderately sweet, straw, some lemon, funk, alcohol, fairly dry. Medium body, light acidity.

750 c&c from South Bay Drug. Cork ejected with a bang. Pours dishwater gold with a 4 finger frothy/foamy off-white head. Smells like a tripel; kandi, yeast/spice. Medium body; frothy carb. There’s a strong spice/herb/hop flavor that is dominant. Or maybe that’s rye. It’s incredibly floral/herbal, and it’s even bitter. So lots of complex flavor. It’s strongly flavored. Finishes like a dry hopped tripel. Excellent.

Corked bottle. Poured a cloudy deep amber with an average rocky off-white head that lasted and produced excellent lacing. Moderate to heavy tart fruit, hops and yeast aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium to heavy complex bittersweet and yeast flavor with a medium to heavy bittersweet finish of moderate to long duration. Exceeded my expectations.

Bottle... Cloudy straw-colored ale with a small, wispy, white head. Decent retention. The spicy, bready aroma offers lots of lemon zest accompanied by clove and coriander. Light to medium-bodied with biting carbonation. The flavor and finish, although crisp and bready, is also moderately sweet, spicy and herbal. Lemon zest here as well. Generously bittered with grassy hops. Overall, very enjoyable. Much better than the sum of its parts.

Draft at Pizzeria Paradiso, courtesy of Greg - thank you sir! Very pale yellow, solid lacing. Aroma of freshly cut grass. Taste is very strong hops, but not too bitter. Good balance and complexity.

On tap at Capone’s. Poured a deeper and cloudy golden/yellow color with a smaller sized white head. Aromas of bananas, fruity, yeast, and citrus. Tastes of bananas, citrus, and a little earthiness.

Very pale golden coloured beer. The nose is surprisingly light and soft. There is a touch of soft berryish fruitiness as well as some light spice, but it is quite light. The palate is quite soft – there is a touch of Belgian malt but the yeast and spice are very subdued. Light lingering spice. It’s nice, but much more subtle than I would have imagined.

750 ml bottle poured a clear yellow with a lasting white head. Aromas of straw, pear, citrus, light earthiness and light spice. Palate was light bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of straw, pear, pineapple and citrus with a crisp dry lingering citrus finish.