Cimes Yeti

Brewed by Brasserie des Cimes
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Aix les Bains, France

Overall this is a very unusal beer that goes down very smooth. It has hints of grape in it and is very thick on the palate. A really good beer that I would recommend. it really didn’t fit the belgian strong ale style to me.

when in chambery, france we went to the grocery store. this is the first beer that stood out on the shelf....not because it was a strong ale at 8% but because it has an abominal snowman on the bottle hmmmmm? thats where it all started. this one stood out as one of the top 2 most different beers i had on our trip. curious that others either love it hate it...i thought it was rather good. nose of malty sweetness and herbal extasy. a plant like feel to the nose almost soil earthiness. in your mouth it doesnt follow the normal palate it is slik and fast and comes out of the gates screaming like a whipped child. some fruit of darkness (the band) and a wimsical feather of basil or reefoot. the alcohol wasnt really present moreso as the beer warmed. not something you can drink many of but definately worth a whirl around the filiform....since then im naming my first child YETI....we kid because we love.

After finishing and attempting to review Yeti, I feel like a phoney, a failure, a fraud, a fool...there was no way I could pin down any exact associations for the flavor of this brew...it was so unique, so elusive, I couldn’t be anything but impressed...and depressed by my inability to name it! Appearance: a clean, bright, shiny amber hue, with a smallish white head. Aroma: utterly unique! Sharp. piney, open, alive, and...strange...I’ve been stuggling with it for days now, for the memory of it’s flavor returns, but it’s so hard to nail! Not too sweet, and not at all sour, candyish, without coming near cloyingness, and a trifle fruity, without resembling any particular fruit I know. This oddness about the aroma continues throughout the flavor, and I’m utterly dumbfounded. No mistake, it’s good, and tasty, but utterly foreign to any sort of associations I could muster up! No part of my paltry wits can piece it together!...but I try...a blend of fruit and vegetable, a hint of herb, light, but flavorful, with a long, tasty finish. The 8% ABV doesn’t show up much, and the flavor is memorable, if too mystifying to categorize. I don’t know what category this "truly" belongs to, it’s in an order of it’s own. Glad they found this Yeti!

Golden coloured. Fruity aroma. Very sweet and boring flavour. Rather light bodied.

Honey sweet amber ale with Belgian notes. Creamy mouthfeel and a herbal bitter finish. The sweetness is crude - the mouthfeel is bland, fat and oily - only the herbal bitterness keeps this beer drinkable, and even that becomes like chewing lavender after a while - interesting at first, but the initial interest soon fades as the perfume starts to saturate and irritate the palate. This is an ugly bastard of a beer. Cloyingly sweet. Crude alcohol. Bland, oily mouthfeel. And irritating perfumed herbs just to rub things in. The more you drink the worse it gets - and I kept drinking in the hope of it getting better! The bouquet is the only decent thing about this abortion.

Pours a semi cloudy pink gold. With a whispy white head. Sweet butery Belgian aroma. Very formidable flavor. Agressive and woody at first, it immediately softens up into a nice, broad maltyness.

Dark golden color be-speckled with white particles of yeast. Smaller lid of off white small bubbles. From the start of the first sniff I can tell this is going to be an strange journey. Ike and Mikes are jumping about in a pool of honey waving bouquets of goldenrod and petunias. Spiced apple and pear compote flavors. Mace, allspice, lemon, orange zest all swim easily in this pool. Light burn of acidic hops and alcohol converge near the end. A interesting and challenging potation. Thanks slikwily for forwarding this strangely wonderful brew.

Light golden color with a small white head. The taste is sweet and artificial. Kind of watery.