Gigi Speciale
Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile in Gérouville, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Non Alcoholic / Low Alcohol Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.00
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77ships (14591) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Tim needs to get rid of his ticks” Tasting. Enjoyed together with tderoeck, Benzai & Alengrin. 2007 Vintage. Never heard of this brewery before. Clear golden with no head. Nose is sweat, chemicals, cooked apples & metals. Taste is artificial sweetener, metallic, chemical, fake, light oxidation. Thin. Lots of sweetener. This may “authentic” but I cannot call something that taste this heavily of artificial sweeteners “artisanal”.
tderoeck (20788) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
Imported from my RateBeer account as Gigi Speciale (by Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile):
Aroma: 2/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 2/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 2/20, MyTotalScore: 1/5
23/I/15 - 25cl bottle @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: n/a, 2007 vintage (2015-67) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale blond beer, no head. Aroma: dusty, card board, funky, weird, off. MF: no carbon, light body. Taste: sugary, lots of cardboard, bad, artificial sweetness, dirty. Aftertaste: dirty, metallic, bad.
Benzai (22909) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4
Sampled from bottle (2007 vintage thanks to Alengrin) @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Clear very pale yellow golden color, almost watery even, no head. Smell and taste some malts, some wort, a bit metallic, cardboard. Watery texture. Didn’t age too well. But what’s to expect from a low able table beer.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5
The ’tripel’ version among Gigi’s table beers, with loose, unstable, snow white head and ’dirty’ orange blonde colour, clear. Aroma dominated by saccharose (artificial sweetener), grainy, chamomille, some grassy hops, vague impression of wild yeast, bit lightstruck too. Grainy taste with sweet saccharose, some herbal, mild bitterish hops in the finish but less so than in the Gigi Double Blonde and therefore a tad too sweet - though I can easily forgive this in view of this particular beer style. Gigi remains the most authentic and best table beer producer in Belgium, glad I’ve been there.
omhper (39870) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 17 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Bottled. Clear golden, no head. Plum aroma. Saccharine sweet with clean hard mouthfeel. Some interesting fruiy flavour, and definite thirst quenching qualities, but the saccharine sweetness gets too much.
Sloefmans (14286) reviewed Gigi Speciale from Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Light amber with greenish shine, very pearling to fluffy off-white collar. Spicey nose, especially parsley, touch yeasty. Sweet taste, a bit artificial too. Spiciness is still there in the background, but gets killed by this unpleasant sweetness. Aspartame-based "Traubenzucker", if such thing would be feasible. Light MF, OK, but a slickness again reminding me of artificial sweetener. By far my least preferential from the Gigi light brigade. Sad about the demise of the Unicbier, which was all the better.