Abbaye de St Landelin Ambrée

Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant
Style: Belgian Ale
Douai, France

Glugs musically from the (750ml) bottle. Spritzy and almost Rose (wine) red. The fizz soon settles down, but a creamy head remains. Slightly cooked malt, hops, strawberry and metal in the snout. Quite a silky mouthfeel. A sourish metallic fruity flavour not a million miles from the Tanglefoot I had last night. Sweetly malty and subtle. None of the whiskeyish graininess and acrid metal I was expecting. A hugely drinkable fusion of northern French and Belgian styles, possibly very lightly spiced.

0,25lt Bottle. One of the few beers that I never tried from a new liquor store. Interesting amber color , huge foamy head. Malty aroma, caramel and fruit tastes. Pretty good beer, a class better than the blonde version.

75cl bottle from Carrefour, Calais. Attractive clear amber colour with a lasting thick white head. Malty aroma. Candy sugar, bit of whisky even in the mouth flavours. Nice hoppy tingly finish. Really nice amber actually. Good balance of malt and hop.

This beer has a amber body - hue apperance and a coarse white scum collar. I have drunk the beer from the bottle and it had a lot of carbonic acid. The initial flavor taste is bitter.

Pretty aged bottle Brown-amber beer with positively ghastly chunks of funk; big bubbles not able to sustain the disparate head. Very fresh-fruity nose, carbonated fruitjuice-like (pineapple?), liquorice and caramel. A fruit caramel! Liquorice, bitterish flavour, partly roasted, burnt malt, partly wood. Rosewater and caramel flavours. Again a quite fruity character. Very little apparent oxidation, no acidity. Slick, because of the protein precipitation, medium bodied, thinner texture than when young. Not bad, has always been one of France’s best - and few original - abbey-style beers. Amber was the original colour. Drank this one from the tap once - in Crespin!

Neutral fruit aroma, light malt, and a bit of hops. Some alcohol and band-aid. Medium amber clear with thin lacing off-white head. Medium-light watery body with light carbonation. Malt stale grain start, low acidity, fake sweetness. Mild hops, some band-aid. Alcohol flavor reminiscent of a malt liquor or European strong lager. Dull finish with tinny after.

Oranges, sugar candy and all spice dancing around in the nose. The body was yeasty and off dry organish all leading to a rounded earthy finish. Not bad.

A clear copper color with a thin beige head. Sweet malts, fruit and some vegetal characteristics in the nose. Sweet with some prune/metalic tastes, sweetness lingers. Alcohol evident, not well masked. A rather uninspired Belgian Ale.