Bière Darbyste

Brewed by Brasserie de Blaugies
Style: Traditional Ale
Dour-Blaugies, Belgium

Cloudy, bold and muted orange in color with tight bubbly lace cascading slowly down the sides of the tulip like a custom wedding invitation. Sugary fruit salad served out of a grapefruit core comes to call for the aromatic portion of the show, meeting up with lemons used in place of the ball in a farmhouse softball match, not to mention the anticipated fig additives. Lovely souring nodes break open the palate door with fig-like tangerine suggestions. Takes that lime juice that’s been sitting on the fridge door for years and makes a tasty wonder out of it. Some sugar-saturated Lemon Heads with double the coating. Such a tasty deviation from the standard run of the mill. Thanks for sharing MIBRomeo!

cloudy off orangish yellow w/ a full white head and some nice lacing. Has that murky aroma and some yeast and floral hops hints of a lambicy horseblanket. Highly carbonated palate good body. Lightly sour and fruity apricot & fig lightly acidic has a tart finish. hints of a floral hop. Pretty good.

Chuck and I picked this up in Minnesota. The beer pours to a straw colored murky body with a thin white head. The aroma is a floral and citrusy Belgian yeasted beer. The flavor is grassy and vinous. Oaky and tart. i love the tartness of this.

[Bottle 750ml, dates unknown, chilled]
Cloudy amber with a tan and frothy head. Exceptionally complex nose since it has a bit of everything: citrus, floral, raisins, vineous/grassy feels, barnyard… well, at the end, it is supposed to smell figs, but I’m not certain about that. Taste is unpredictable. Oak/Barrel/aged ? Acidic for sure. Texture is medium and carbonation is high. Very interesting beer and I understand why it only fits into the general Ale category since its definitely a one of its kind.

Musty, barnyard nose that is mostly sweet. Orange color, tight bubbled head with lacing. Light fruity malt, yeasty notes. Tart, lactic end. Medium body. Reserved overall, but sophisticated and complex.

I like this drink, even though (or, perhaps, because) I can’t detect the figs in it anywhere. Hazy dark straw body, some particles, and a dense, creamy head, most of which hangs around for the length of the drink. The aroma is quite yeasty with a citric tartness and a lightly bitter grassiness. Soft bodied, it has a refreshingly, lightly sour flavor of grapefruit, yeast and a lively spiciness... but, no figs. The finish is refreshingly tart. I could drink alot of this. Whilst eating figs.

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Deep orange color, medium head - some floating but that might have been because of wrong pouring. Grapefruit and grass nose. Again mustard seeds and also cellery nose.

Bottled. Delirium Cafe, Gothenburg, Sweden. Hazy orange, large white head, loads of yeast. Soruish and grassy aroma; cedar. Dry and sour flavour with late bitterness. Marcipan. Too thin.