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New Belgium Biere De Mars

Percentile
87
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
4313.49/5.03.48/5.0Spring6.2%88.1Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Biere De Mars is New Belgium’s exploration of the classic French and Belgian brews celebrating the half-winter, half-spring month of March. Our bottle-conditioned version, however, goes where no BIERE DE MARS has gone before. After gazing at its cloudy, yet glowing orange hue, prepare yourself for a celestial collaboration of oats, wheat, barley malt and lemon verbena, all of which is set into orbit by unidentified flying yeast strains.
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 hopdog (5549), Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Mar 24, 2006  
12oz bottle shared courtesy of weeare138 (thanks!). Poured a deeper and cloudy golden color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of apple fruitiness, light yeast, and some citrus. Tastes of lemon citrus, some wheat, yeast and fruity.


 ElGaucho (1730), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/513/20
Mar 22, 2006  
Bottle at Don & Charlie’s in Scottsdale, AZ. Faint, malt aroma. Slightly hazy amber in color. Small, mostly eroding head. Fizzy. Not much lace. Fair amount of flavor. Some allspice. Interesting and unique. Not outstanding but no flaws and some flavor to keep things interesting.


 Fantomas23 (463), Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Mar 21, 2006  
Golden orange without much fizzle. My first sample was out of a disposable plastic cup in a Las Vegas hotel room. It was good then. A couple of bottles made their way back with me. Shockingly, it tastes even better out of a glass vessel. Slightly acidic twang. Maybe a little thin as it slips down the throat. Nice notes of lemon zest and hop spice, not surprising for an American interpretation.


 pantani (1896), Salinas, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Mar 21, 2006  
Foggy amber orange color, faint white head. Aroma is citrus, floral notes, caramel, and dried fruit. Taste is slightly hoppy, with fruit and caramel accents.


 talon1117 (620), Bellvue, Colorado, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/59/104/516/20
Mar 20, 2006  
Definately unfiltered. Golden-orange colored with a small white, fluffy head that disappates fairly quickly. Nose is faint but nice with orange peel really showing through. Also, lemon, floral, grassy, and a belgian yeastiness. Palate is fizzy and very slightly oily with a medium to full body. Flavor is nice, citrusy(orange and slight lemon), slight breadiness, slight sour flash, floral bouquet, and a touch of underlying caramel maltiness. Finish is quick and dry with slight acidic souness. Definately no saison, should be in the biere de garde category(if it exists). Very interesting, easy to drink, and really asks you to have another.


 skoisirius (573), Seattle, Washington, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/102/512/20
Mar 15, 2006    Updated: Jun 14, 2006
Getting a tip that this years batch was much better than past (2005/2006), I went ahead a gave the Biere De Mars a try. Poured a light orangish color that looked intriguing. The aroma to me was not much of anything, and if anything, wasn’t great. This hit my palate and sent shock waves of hoppiness, and bitterness, with almost a sour taste to it. I was not impressed, as I have had much better saison style brews.


YoungBuck (1), Billings, Montana, USA
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4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/518/20
Mar 14, 2006  
Bottle. Poured into a worthy glass with a gorgeous fluffy head atop a lightly hazt amber body. Nose is of brettanomyces and fruity citrus. Palate with great, filled with lightly bready malt flavors and silky fruit flavors leading to a slightly dry finish with citrus and a bit of lingering acidity. Excellent version of a rarely brewed style.


 muzzlehatch (4427), Burlington, Vermont, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/514/20
Mar 13, 2006  
12 oz bottle that came in a lovely box from Larry Pitonka (thanks!), BBD July 06, served at cellar temperature in a Corsendonk Christmas Ale glass. Just a touch of fizzy off-white head tops the opaque murky golden-amber body....nose is lemony, lightly farmy, sour-doughy, rather faint at first but with growing pungent floral qualities....the lovely fluffy, slightly fizzy mouthfeel supports a fruity, somewhat sour body that offers up hints of lemon, rosemary, honey and sour cherry....finish is rather herbal and dry with faint mineralic notes....mouthfeel turns a bit syrupy when warmer. All in all a fairly nice rendition, though no one would ever mistake it for Belgian.



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