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Abbaye de St Landelin La Divine

Percentile
69
overall
Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant
Style: Bière de Garde

Douai, France

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
1493.25/5.03.23/5.08.5%64.2Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
La Divine de St Landelin is a high density top fermentation beer with specially selected yeasts. After a prolonged storage period the beer is packaged in a traditional swing-top cap. It has fruity, woody and caramel aromas as well as a certain bitterness persistent upon the palate.
Soft and generous, La Divine is a “grand cru” of St Landelin and has an abv of 8.5%.
Ingredients: Malt, wheat, rice, hops, spices.

Note: 8% in the USA.
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 muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/512/20

Nov 21, 2008  
750 ml bottle from Beverage Warehouse in Winooski, VT (November 2008), served at cellar temperature in a Duvel glass. Big fluffy lasting head laces generously when it fails atop the translucent amber-gold body....grassy, initially pil-like fresh aroma on more exploration offers some funkiness, but also a touch of skunk-like unpleasantness....the body is moderately sweet to start, some tart notes coming in midpalate, with a lightly sour, milky character towards the finish, a bit of vegetal character....I get the feeling that the wheat and especially the rice did not favor this beer; on the whole, so-so.

 yayforbeer (647), Orange Park, Florida, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 16, 2009  
Sample with friends at the brewclub’s Teach A Friend To Brew meet 11/8/2009. Clear dark amber beer with light sweet caramel malt and bready aroma. Flavor was sweet malt and caramel, spicy, and with a little grassy hops. Good but not memorable.


 yespr (12104), Copenhagen O, Denmark
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 13, 2009  
33 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Spiced, slight yeasty. Phenolic and slight sweet. Vague fruity and towards a dry phenolic finish. Lingering caramelish touch.


 MiP (9070), Sønderborg, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 13, 2009  
Bottle, 8.5%. Sweetish caramelly aroma. Clear dark golden colour. Very small white head. Mildly sweet flavour. Rough, but nice hop flavour. OK aroma hop notes as well.


 drpimento (819), La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/102/512/20
Nov 10, 2009  
poured with an off white huge foamy frothy textured head and a boat load of lace. Color is a slightly hazy medium to light amber. Aroma is yeasty, malty, a bit hoppy sweet. Flavor’s about the same. Body is quite thin but ok carbonation. Not bad beer all in all. Finish is nice. Would have again.


 hellbilly (1532), scottsdale über alles, Arizona, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Nov 9, 2009  
bottle bb 5/28/09 sampled 11/5/09. pours a dirty dirty blonde color... surprisingly clear. it’s capped by a small white head which leaves behind some random spotty dots of foam. it smells rather dirty (or dusty) as well... combined with pale malt sweetness, apples, cocoa butter/white chocolate and pumpkin pie-like spices (nutmeg mostly). the flavor pretty much mirrors the aroma’s notes... still, really dusty, dirty and apple-y. the palate is a touch on the sweet side but seems to dry off nicely when it meets up with some hoppy bitterness on the finish. a soft airy texture gives the medium body a sort of... tingly mouth feel (probably the best component of the beer). it’s not a great beer (bdg?) but it is a decent spiced blonde... 6/3/6/4/13/3.2


 michael-pollack (2668), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/513/20
Nov 9, 2009  
750ml Bottle: Aroma of grains, honey, malts, and light yeast. Poured amber in color with a medium to large-sized, creamy, rocky, off-white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Clear. Lightly sparkling. Several small particles throughout. Good lacing. Flavor is slightly sweet. Tastes of grains, yeast, light pale malt, and light honey. Medium body. Thinish, dry texture. Average carbonation. Lightly sweet, grain, honey, and yeast finish is dry. Quite boring. 8.5%ABV is totally hidden.


 Muggus69 (517), Sydney, Australia
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/103/59/20
Nov 9, 2009  
25cL bottle. I kind of expected good things from this beer; abbey brewed, fancy name, 8.5%alc/vol, but at <3 euro a 6 pack in a French supermarket, that might have changed things. Fizzy orange body, small white ring of foam. Aroma is pretty rough; obvious alcohol, metallic spice, sweet plae malts. Full bodied, decetn carbonation, drying alcohol texture. Sweet pale malts combine with ripe apricot and start the flavour off well, but are thwarted by metallic spice and stale bready notes with an unsubtle alcohol to finish. Big disappointment!


 Lubiere (4518), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Nov 2, 2009  
A lightly hazed amber ale with a thick lacing off white head. A rather restrained candi sugar aroma, with light curacao notes. In mouth, a rather simple belgian ale with light curacao, fruity notes, caramel, light hopping and warming alcohol. Decent but non descript for the style. Bieropholie import, BB 28-05-10.



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