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Duyck Jenlain Bière de Mars 3.05 15

Duyck Jenlain Bière de Mars


Percentile
50
overall
Brewed by Duyck
Style: Bière de Garde

Jenlain, France

bottled
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on tap
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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
153.17/5.03.05/5.0Spring6%39.5Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
With this fine, malty ale, the Brewery Duyck continues the long tradition in Northern France of cooking up a special brew in the first months of the year to celebrate the longed-for end to winter’s cold and darkness. Bière de Mars, or "March Beer" - so named for the season in which the first bottles were usually ready to drink - was made from the best ingredients of the last growing season, and was heartier and more flavorful, meant to be laid down and drunk for many months. The chief aroma is of grain, in this case France’s famed barley and wheat malt, which is balanced on the palate by the refreshing and bitter fruitiness of great Alsatian hops. Intended to be served chilled.
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 bu11zeye (5608), Frisco, Texas, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Jun 28, 2009  
(750ml bottle, courtesy of mar) Pours a clear yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of metal, grain, mustiness, grass, and lemon peel. Flavor of grass, grain, sweet malt, florals, and some lemon.


 Cletus (5057), Connecticut, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/57/103/516/20
Apr 1, 2008  
Pours gold with a white head. Smells funky with some lemons, touches of hay, horse blankets, some touches of sugar and perfumy. Tastes of dry malt, some touches of sugar, some tea and earth, some bitterness, hints of grassiness on the finish.


 JPDIPSO (4926), Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Jun 9, 2009  
Lightly golden color with a taller off-white head. First sniff impession... are you sure this is not a malt liquor? Grains, white grapes, light grass and bit of honey in the nose. Not bad, just not a Bière de Garde scent. Grainy start with a bit of earth in the backdrop. Middle has a bit of alcohol that carries into the finish and linger. For a brew listed as 5.4% that is not necessarily a good thing. Some sharp bitterness in the finish as well. A earthy floor malt component that sticks in the linger. I see that the description indicates to be served chilled, perhaps cellar temperature is not forgiving for this brew. Low strength, but euro strong lager flavors. Just doesn’t work for me.


 Rciesla (3750), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/103/511/20
Jun 19, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a pale gold body with a white head. Grainy with some light dried fruit, earth y tones and some light grass and tea bitterness. Okay i guess.


 bb (2930), Martinez, California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
May 13, 2009  
Bottle. Golden beer with anoff-white head. Malt and light spice aroma with light grass. Malt and honey flavor with light spice. Medium-light body. Honey and light spice lingers.


 BMan1113VR (2916), Los Angeles (and Dallas), Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Dec 18, 2008  
Bottle. Pours with a small, white head and a hazed yellow body with bubbles rising. Head recedes and leaves acceptable lace. Aroma of skunk, toast, butter, pear, caramel and green pepper. Taste is dry with a mild or neutral fruity yeast with a element of buttered bread and light alcohol. Easy to drink. Watery mouthfeel and light-ish carbonation


 DuffMan (2768), the land of bitumen, beef & beer, Alberta, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
May 16, 2008  
Hazy deep golden with a largey finely bubbled white head leaving gentle lace. Surprisingly malty aroma, sweet, with dried grass and subtle perfume. Sweet cereal maltiness, hints of chamomille, reedy/stemmy bitterness. Certainly malt-heavy, very nice.


 puzzl (2646), New York, New York, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Aug 11, 2008  
Shared from a bottle. Very sweet floral aroma loaded with a murky yeasty grassiness. Sweet flowers in the flavor with a clean, vegetal finish. A bit sharp in carbonation.



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