Bière des Sans Culottes

Brewed by Brasserie La Choulette
Style: Bière de Garde
Hordain, France

Bottle. Light golden with small hazy particles. Aroma of sweet flowers and grassy fruit. Taste is light and foral with strong yeast. A bit too carbonated.

Clear golden, big head of large bubbles. Musty, fruity nose. Notes of citrus, straw, sweat, earth and spice. A bit flat but still somewhat interesting. I’m not a huge fan but I wouldn’t count this out.

hazy gold, white head. aroma of honey, peach, funk and canned fruit with some perfumy flowers. flavour is full of fruit with orange and lemon to apple and pear. syrupy sweetnes isn’t overdone. bready malt with earth and spice lay down the back bone. fine prickly carbonation. honey and pineaplle in the finish. quite nice.

Bottle at Maproom: Earthy nose with hints of citrus and grass. Toasty malts are there with all kind of funky yeast flavors on top. Light bodied, funky through to the finish. Dry and grassy at the finish...yum!

Musty wheat and Belgian ale aroma. Mild floral notes, honey, sort of fruity. Hazy medium amber with thin white lacing head. Medium bodied with medium-high carbonation. Carbonic acidity. Wheat-like malt flavor, honey, and medium sweet. Finish has some light bitterness and farmy musk. After is weak and a bit dry. Decent beer.

This was interesting. Took a while for me to get used to this. As it warmed had more of a basket, blanket, outdoor, funkified flavor. Good texture. Lots of bitterness/sourness, but not hopped up hops. Bubbly. Citrus. Good.

Surprised that this bottle made it into the U.S. with this label intact, topless lass and all, ...maybe it’s less lascivious, maybe the nipples aren’t so distinct... Appearance: slightly hazy, fully peachy, tangeriney color, with a fine layer of fizzy white foam, that alas, dissipates too soon. Aroma: soft, yet fruity, orange is brightest here, citrus is strong, and there’s a particularly spicy factor at work as well, lush and invigorating. Taste: mmm, fruity, yet mild, mellow, medium body, small finish, but flavor is just right. Not sure where the difference and deviation is between this and the regular Choulettes...did they drop their trousers while brewing? No, it is significantly different, all my jokes aside, it is smoother, fruitier, without the lemony/orange citric taste, very mellow, easy-drinking, a perfect choice for dinner, picnics, celebrations, patting yourself on the back, whatever it takes. Very well-rounded, the malt meets the hops almost perfectly, and the flavor remains king. Mmm, tasty, and this is so amiable and perfectly integrated, that, were it more affordable and readily reachable, I’d take it on more often as an everyday brew. Just loosen the belt, lose the fancypants and go "sans culottes", I says...

What a nice surprise this was. Sparkling yellow color with a real barnyard aroma. Tastes of light yeast, orange, toasted malt and nice fruity esters. Medium bodied and lightly sweet. Wish the head stayed a bit longer but it left a sticky lacing all around. Really enjoyable.