Duyck Biere du Maquis Torra Ambrée à la Myrte

Brewed by Duyck
Style: Pale Lager
Jenlain, France

I poured this beer with great curiosity: a brew claiming it was made with myrtle, how original! The aroma wasn’t bad and actually brought dreams of South European shores. The head was middle-high and did not last very long on top of a dark gold body. This beer is very well-balanced: it is a challenge to brew a beer with exotic herbs without destroying the taste, but the combination was successful in this case. A nice and original experience it was. Original too, the fact that this "Corsican" beer is actually brewed in the far North of France, that is was bought in Denmark in a store owned by a Czech, drunk by an expat Frenchman and rated (as first ever) on an American web site. Oh well, the world is a big and exciting place - Skål and à votre santé! (Sorry, I don’t know how to say it in Corsican)

Has a nice amber color. the taste is not bad but a bit shap with a spicy aftertaste.

oh my god, this reeks. here i’m just pouring it and bam, this damp fruitcake aroma hits me. what could i do? i hit it back. awful to start out a relationship with a beer like this. we both cooled-- though frankly the aroma was still poking me and leering in a antagonistic way. i wanted to compliment it’s appearance and tried to think of synonyms for it’s bright, vivacious pour. it has some little salvador dali melting clocks of lace, but generally a retiring head. it’s pale orange color reminded me of yams-- but it’s more than that-- it smells like yams too. yams, rosemary and dog biscuits. not surprisingly after that comment, it hit me again. now it’s true i wouldn’t know a myrtle from a muffler shop, but i’ll give it the benefit of assuming that it’s the source of that sweetness, and not an injection of corn syrup dictated by a focus group of fifteen year olds. though it’s a puny bottle, i think i got into it’s super sweet rhythm. medium carb and body, watery feel, with a carmel sticky bun flavor and somewhat interesting citrus bitterness, i kinda stopped hating it. i almost liked it. almost. remember it hit me twice and never apologized. at least i get credit for a corsican beer. WHAT?!? corsica’s NOT a country?! fuck! !

Bottled. Brown beer light head. Light ginger beer aroma and a weakish ginger and water flavour. Overall tastes like a ginger beer to me.

A clear red beer with a nice orange head. The aroma is very spicy with notes of berries, lemon, and grass. The flavor is very sweet - like a sodapop with strong notes of juniper berries. The end is quite dry.

Bottled. Clear orange coloured with a white head. Sweet fruity aroma with notes of malts. Sweet flavour of malts and fruits with notes of caramel. Hoppy finish.

Beautiful amber color. Strong aroma of caramel mixed with myrtle (rosemary-like, minty), that I don’t like too much… Good body strength, some malty sweetness, combined with the herbs and bitter enough. Heartless, but drinkable.

Bottled. Clear amber colour. Lovely aroma of rosemary and juniper. Sweet with clean, rounded mouthfeel. A beautifully spiced highly average beer.