Gayant La Goudale

Brewed by Les Brasseurs De Gayant
Style: Bière de Garde
Douai, France

330ml bottle. Deep yellow, frothy head which dissipates. Sweet and lightly spicy aroma, corriander maybe. A tad fizzy on the tongue, but otherwise pleasant sweet light malty palate. Light grainy taste, wheaty even, and a very crisp bitter finisb. Slightly alcoholic, but not imposingly so.

Golden yellow coloured with an average white head and carbonation. Sweeter herby.spicy malty aroma. Full palate. Finish is light bitter, little alcoholic touches, malty. Nice one.

Rich, but clear, golden body is crowned by a creamy white head that slowly descends into a skim of whipped cream.

Honeysuckle and a solid pilsener malt base make up much of the olfactory experience. Hefeweizen like elements of clove and banana appear in moderation. Further spicing continues along the way of cracked black pepper. Dried hay and fresh linen round out the soft but pleasant aroma.

The flavour is sweet with breads, bananas and marshmallow cream, picking up some spicy acidity towards the finish. Lingering are notes of water crackers and pepper.

Not much more than medium bodied, but with a supple texture, sliding from slick to creamy. The carbonation could stand to be a little firmer, but works.

Fresh and clean overall. Seeming underpowered and reserved keeps it from scoring higher. 75cl bottle, Duvel tulip, bbe 28-12-08.

0.33 l bottle. Golden color with fluffy white head. Sweetish, mainly malty aroma with vanilla, toffee, clove, pepper and restrained fruitiness. Sweet, malty and spicy flavor, a bit cloying due to very low bitterness. Some alcohol, some clove and pepper as well as some estery fruitiness.

Date: 05/20/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog II

clear yellow, whispy white head, sweet malt aroma with lots of yeast spicyness, slightly sweet flavor, nice balancing spicyness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Bottled. Golden colour, mediumsized white fluffy head. Aroma is malts, spices, citrus and slight hints of alcohol. Flavour is smooth malts along with herbs and spices. Slight grapefruity notes also along with a nice alcoholic touch to it. Gets even nicer when warming up a bit.

Fruit and malt nose, deep amber, small white head. Soft malt flavour, some citrus. Light bodied, strong feel from the abv. Okay. Thank You R.

Bottled, Goudale is certainly not a good ale. Aroma of a strong lager, bit yeasty. Looks like one too, some darker gold and thicker head maybe. The taste of alcohol doesn’t do justice to the herby palate, but this still doesn’t live up the the magnificient Gavroche.