Thiriez L’Ambrée d’Esquelbecq (Amber)

Brewed by Brasserie Thiriez
Style: Bière de Garde
Esquelbecq, France

Serve in Stem glass, Tulip

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Taster from bottle at Binny’s, Downers Grove. Nice warm, spicy smell, slightly cloudy caramel color. Taste is somewhat fizzy in the style of a warm ferment. A little fruity, and slightly nutty.

Bottle gushes when opened, pours hazy amber with strong head and visible effervescence as well as some floaties. Aroma is light tart pepperiness, raisin, bread. Taste is candy caramel, raisin, tart green grape, freshly baked bread. Body is light, frothy, effervescent, and with a dry tart grapey finish. Overall, an extremely delicious beer. Very enlightening to drink as I experience very different (yet delicious) results while brewing with their yest.

2*330 ml bottles bought in a mixpack and shared at tasting. Pours hazy dark amber with a frothy off-white head that slowly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, malty and tiny metallic with plums, raisins, bread, apricots, sweet oranges, caramelized nuts and toffee. Taste is very sweet and fruity with bread, wild strawberries, wood, hazelnuts, toffee and hints of vanilla. Mouthfeel is tiny watery, slightly sticky sweet and light to medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and very tiny sour with bread, wood, yeasty esters and plums.

(Bottle) Pours dark amber brown with an off-white head. The aroma holds toffee, caramelized nuts, grass, light spices/herbs and dough. The flavour is light to medium sweet and light bitter with nuts, caramel, light grass and light dough. The mouthfeel is round and fairly clean with a light carbonation. Nutty and tiny phenolic finish. Light to medium bodied.

Bottle at Gott i Lådan, Billdal, 120421. Amber beer, nice offwhite head. Yeast floating in the glass. Malty toffee aroma, nutty, fruity. Malty flavor, chocolate, nuts, roasted, hazelnuts, caramel, hop notes. Nutty finish, hops and fruity notes.

Bottle 33 cl, GIL. Pours clear dark copper amber with a grest beige head leaving lace. Aroma is weak to medium malty fruity spicy and caramel sweet. Flavor is nutty acidy and malty in start, a bit watery, more fruityness and bitterness kicks in in the middle with some sweetness sustaining to the end. Nice dry bitter aftertaste.

Sampled at Larsniclas testing. Pours amber with a big light brown head. Smells red berries and caramel malty. Tastes sweet nutty malty abit barry with a similar finish.

Bottled GIL Hazy amber. Medium tan head. Sweet and malty aroma and flavur with sweet berries. Nutty flavour with some raspberries.

Sample at ÖÖWF 2011. It poured a dark hazy orange-golden liquid. Peppery smell with caramel. Mild taste but also with peppers and caramel. Easy to drink.

33 cl bottle shared with gnoff, sampled on March 10, 2012 Cloudy light brown color, thin yellow head. Aromas of cotton candy and grain. Malty bready and sour taste. Thin with a sweet and sour finish. Seemed off.