BFM Cuvée du 7ème

Brewed by BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Saignelégier, Switzerland

Hazy golden-amber body with a big, frothy cream-colored head. Rich and warm dark candy sugar and caramel aroma plus alcohol and earthy hops in the background. Flavor has qualities of menthol and plastic plus medium sweet caramel, figs, leather, and furniture polish, and a medium phenolic/bitter finish. Overall the flavor is intense and somewhat medicinal. Strikes me as a hoppy and phenolic dubbel.

cloudy white head and three inches of white head. Slighty sour with some wheat and yeast on the nose. Yeast body with some fruity taste.

Bottle. Pours a murky orange-brown body with a creamy medium-sized white head. The aroma has pineapple, lime, and grassy hops. High carbonation and btterness - cookiesh dough flavour with some pear skins and mild toastiness. Pretty good but I found it difficult to pinpoint the specifics.

bottle. an ugly cloudy gold under a small white head. lots of sediment in this one. bitter tart citrus, grapefruit, hop flavors. kind of weird. very bitter and thin.

Pours dark orange with a ridiculously large light tan head. The aroma is very spicy, earthy, barnyard, sharp fruits and citrus. Medium body with semi-sharp carbonation. The flavor starts sharp, tart, dirty and earthy - very crisp. The finish is sour, spoiled, veggie and spice. For a highly priced and rated biere de garde I expected far far better than this. Very dissapointing.

750ml bottle, 2006 vintage. Tart, spicy aroma, very lightly sweet and toasty with notes of tangerine, pear, citrus, musty wood, dried flowers and some light brown sugar. Hazy orange-red color with a lasting, thinly foamy, off-white head. Flavor is immediately tart and citric, mellowing a bit to show some background sweetness, spice, tropical fruits and pepper, as well as a heavy dosage of earthy, musty yeast towards the much drier finish, which seems to show a brief metallic glint. Lingering herbal and citric quality. Moderately acidic, fairly effervescent, very slightly warming and dry on the palate, body is medium-full. Kind of an odd one, but not unwelcome. To call this an IPA seems a bit of a stretch, though -- the bottle refers to itself as "Rousse de garde".

Bottle shared by bgburdman: Copper in color with a rocky off white head. Aroma, fruity, some yeast, and some caramel notes. Flavor, spicy notes, caramel, some heat, and some fruits as well. Some slight woody notes, interesting.

11.2oz swing top. Pours a swampy orange color with a ton of sediment, small off white film. Nose is really funky with a kind of weird fruity, yeasty hop combination. Flavor was also quite sweet and funky. A kind of yeast hop bitterness on the finish. One of the stranger beers I’ve ever tried, especially in the IPA category.