Established in 1989
Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile
in Gérouville, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
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Grand-Rue, 96 Gérouville 6769
+32 63 577515 |
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottled. Yellowish golden colour with a mediumsized white foamy head. Aroma is sweet bread, fruits and some mild grainy tones. Flavou ris grainy, herbal, earthy and some mild citrusy tones. Watery.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle in an ancient 75 cl swing top bottle, this beer from one if the very few relics left of ancient Wallon brewing. Golden color. Yeasty, vegetable and musty aroma. Dusty, slightly grassy and musty flavor with melon. Hints of caramel. Dirty mouthfeel. Too bad. I wanted to rate this beer higher but I simply couldn’t. Maybe it doesn’t travel well.
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”.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
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 like soap, cardboard (prob. oxidation) & metal; Taste is extremely sweet, huge amount of artificial sweeteners & malt sweetness, sweetness just keeps lingering & gaining a weird unnatural / chemical profile. Body is a bit thinner. Even by soft drink standards this is very sweet in a sweetener type of way.
tderoeck (20818) 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.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 1.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Gigi Double Blonde Bière de table (by Brasserie Gigi de l'Etoile):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 3/20, MyTotalScore: 1.6/5
23/I/15 - 25cl bottle @ "I need to get rid of my Belgian ticks" tasting - BB: 23/X/08 (2015-66) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear pale yellow beer, no head. Aroma: cow stable, malty, grains, cardboard, dry, dusty. MF: no carbon, medium to light body. Taste: sweet, sugary, artificial sweetener, candy, yuck. Aftertaste: ditto, plus some grains and malts.
Benzai (22911) 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.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Sampled from bottle (vintage 2007, thanks to Alengrin) @ Tim needs to get rid of his ticks tasting. Clear pale yellow golden color, virtually no head. Smell and taste malts, wort, sweet sugar, sweet, some iron. Low body and carbonation. Crap.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Very unusual winter beer since it comes from a very low-profile brewery which otherwise produces only table beers. Vinous, spicy, sweet and honeyish, light acidity; unlike most other Belgian Christmas ales, but I liked it. Not sure if they still do this every year, though.
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.
