La Bavaisienne Blonde

Brewed by Brasserie Theillier
Style: Bière de Garde
Bavay, France

Green bottle. Wild yeast, grass, and citrus aroma. Some good notes of sparkling cider. Pepper and malt, very fruity with lemon and peach - nose is a knockout! Extremely sediment-rich pour, golden body with a huge rocky cream-colored head, with abnormally copious lace. Taste is dry and peppery with straw and perfumed grass, prominent malt and a bit of calcium. Touch of earthy cigar/tobacco, but not ashy or burned. Really soft and rounded with a slight chalky coating. Medium body with a bit too much alcohol showing. Definite Saison overtones, spicy and balanced with neither too much sweetness, spice, or bitterness. Complex and classy - delicate flowers, individually picked and pressed. Doesn’t quite live up to the initial enticements, but still a really good one.

Bottle. Very saison-ish. Lots of head and a golden hue. Aroma is fruit & earth & other stuff. What one would expect, whatever that means.

25.4 oz bottle. Cellared for a year. Cloudy brown with a white head and blanketing lace. A slurry with the last pour. Lemon juice and zest; mild peachy malts. Crisp carb, chewy but not heavy. Lemon and orange melt away leaving caramel and toffee. Mellow, bitter finish; some resin. Beautifully balanced and delightfully drinkable. Another elegant brew from La Bavaisienne.

A soft easy-drinking blond. It so goes down easy. Not overly sweet. Niceheadand pleasant aroma. A harder-to-get French beer Worth it.

Thanks to bu11zeye for this great bottle. The pour reveals a cloudy golden color with lots of yeast in suspension and a thick white head. Good aroma of hay, barnyard, field flowers, it’s farm character is so present that you can almost smell a farmer staning in the middle of the field, but happily, you don’t. The flavor has a solid farmhouse terroir with citric grapefruits, hay and yeast. The body has a light to medium thickness with a creamy texture and expansive carbonation. Not as amazing as its big sister can be but still very solid.

Luminous gold. Thick, cakey froth deposits an abundance of intricate lace all over the lace. Dough, fresh straw, grassy hops and candy apples fill the nose as peppery esters tease the senses. Natural carbonation caresses the palate with a pillowy softness. Initially tangy and uplifting yet starchy, sweet, and doughy with a vibrant straw and fresh-bread malt frame. Hop character boasts ultra refined flavors reminiscent of honeysuckle and grass, as well as a clean and assertive bitterness which evokes thoughts of black pepper and aniseed. Minerally grit coarsens the otherwise voluptuously soft body. Elegant malts are squeaky clean and sport a vivid yet delicate honey-glazed sweetness. Yeast leaves its mark with a musty and plastery quality. Finishes with a scratchy bitterness which complements the minerals and accentuates the soft, honeyish malts which linger. An extravagant yet rustic ale that’s undoubtedly overlooked/underappreciated because of its subtleness. That’s unfortunate, because this is yet another brilliant example from Theillier, if you ask me. Now if they would just ditch the green bottles…

Thanks to egajdzis for sharing this... Appears a hazy, medium toned gold with a small off-white head that slowly fades out. Scattered lace is left around the glass. Smell is earthy, notes of caramel, toffee, vanilla cream, yeast, and mild funk. Taste is of the mentioned aromas with standouts of caramel, cream, and mild spice. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, creamy, on the sweeter side, and balanced.

Not bad. The body’s a slightly hazy gold with bunches of swirlies and a thick, creamy, somewhat yellowed head. Lots of lacing. The aroma has bicuity malt, orchard fruit and apricots, old flowers, and a bit of soil. Smooth drinking and slightly oily on the tongue. The malt gets a tad sweeter in the flavor, but it’s strongly countered by grasses and an earthy floral bitterness. Actually a pretty good ale.