Louisiane
La Brasserie du Château de Durbuy (prev. La Ferme au Chène) in Durbuy, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style Regular|
Score
7.16
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Ye effin’ Gods!! I search this most elusive of Belgian beers for 15 years, and when I finally get my hands on a bottle, carefully preserve it to settle, and in the mean time this ohmepoorheadcharacter gets his rating here before me! Huge, slightly yellowish head, fed by good carbonation from hazy yellow-orange beer. Rainwater, farmyard odours, grain, citrus, saddlesoap, yeasty esters. Quite nice at first, but becomes a tad oppressive. Surprising soft-sweet taste with perfumey flavours of rosewater/"amandine", faint citrus leaf, bit of sweet malt. Slightly less depth than the nose, but agreable all the same. Quite slick, on par with a reasonably high restsugar content, but not very thick MF, medium bodied at best. Not as complex as the better Fantômes, but way better than the ’ordinary’ Marckloff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
[Bottled (as Louisiana 2006)] Cloudy golden. Intense aroma of cherry and winegum. Medium sweet with rounded mouthfeel and medium bodied. Some perfume and esters reveal a close relationship to Fantôme. An excellent, rare ale.