BFM Cuvée du 7ème

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

2006 bottle.Hazy amber with a fleeting head. Nice aroma is mildly sour lemon with dry hay and mustard powder. Medium body. Lightly sweet n’ tart lemon flavor with dusty malt, dry hay wet wood and spicy hops, light oxidation. Different.

750mL, 2006 vintage. Pours a cloudy orangish red with a three finger fizzy light beige head, having only poured 3/4 of 0.3L. Aroma is fairly fruity with some citrus, apple skins, dusty earthy and floral hops. There is also some yeast, spices as well. Initial taste has flowers, dirt and spice. There is a bready character with moderate-high bitterness. Dry finish. Highly carbonated with a medium body. Not really that spectacular.

Pours a bubbly, cloudy burnt orange color with a big, foamy, light tan head. Smells pretty spicy with a sweet malt backbone mixed in with some hops. The hops werent as powerful as I was expecting. The taste is also quite malty and spicy. Definite bitterness lingers in the aftertaste and shows up in the finish. Pretty unique beer, but I dont see how this is classified as an IPA. Didnt really taste like one at all.

750mL Bottle. #00276. Fermenting bread dough, wet pineapple, and fresh spring grasses. Pours a deep, hazy bloodied amber, fuming with a pillowy, mousse-like sand-colored head. Flavor is a sweet wash of tangerine and apricot juice, fettered with a bit of oak-like brett and chewy sugars. Very complex in mid-colored fruits and bread. Good flavor profile for sure, but it takes a while for the hop oils to shine. The smack really runs with slightly old-tasting EKG. Light and fluffy. I like it as a beer, but it’s pretty far off style. Not really sure why this should even be an IPA. Good beer, with complex, pleasing well developed flavors balanced by some yeast characters and long-drawn hops.

Wow, rediculous head of insane and intense bubbles. It actually poured a 4 inch head in my goblet. 2 inches of which were above the glass. Frothy medium sized bubbles that reduce to a dense creamy foam on top. Fruity aroma (apricots) with some caramel, spices and floral hops. Color is a slightly hazy dark amber. Light, crisp and fruity with a noticable alcohol presence. Very smooth with a decent malt backbone and more spices. This is really not an IPA. A typical belgian quality brew. Enough earthy and herbal notes that this could easily be classified as a saison. Some hops and biterness are present but they are muted by the other flavors. Finishes kind of dry. Damn foams keeps surging out of the bottle. Lingering herbal notes. A decent brew but no IPA

Hazy amber-orangeish hue, with a frothy beige head, yeasty, sweet toasty malt nose, with a subtle wet winey oakiness, with some fruity citrusy accents, with an earthy herbal floral hop note, with a hint of mustiness in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity peachy, winey character, with some caramelized malts, with a juicy flowery hop note, remembering me of the bitterness of cooked rapinis as my mother used to do, with a hint of coriander spiciness, leading towards a malty, fruity, lingering hop bittering finish.

I think this beer looks better than it actually tastes. The color is light reddish brown with a cream colored head. The taste is a tad tart with some definitive herbal flavors. for the true connoisseur

Sample provided by jasonp. Hazy amber body with a large beige head - lasting, nice lace. The nose is lightly sweet and earthy with caramel, berries and hints of darker fruits. The flavor is very vinous with hay, bread dough and cotton candy. Medium body is soft with moderate, gentle carbonation.