La Caracole Ambree

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

October 2014: Shared 330 ml bottle at local tasting, ABV is 7.5%. Cloudy orange colour (i had the yeast poured in), white head. Aroma of over-ripe berries, also some cheesy notes. Bland and unfresh flavour, hints of over-ripe berries. Not good.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

A semi lucent mber colored beer. Big frothy textured off white head rises above. Some staying power. But not much lacing left behind. The nose and flavoring are a dance of sweet and sour. Caramel, fruit, yeast and spices. A pleasing smooth medium bodied beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Pours Burt Orange if you will. Head goes away quickly. Front foward apple taste with a meduim body mouthfeel. Finish is sour almost like a cider.. It was ok...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Aroma yeasty as well as fruity with hints of ripened apple and plum as well as some spice and peppery overtones with some slight hop bitter. Appearance is a hazy and cloudy golden amber with a nice and refined head on top that is full-bodied and well-carbonated and an off-white in color and diminishes to a light lacing. The mouthfeel is medium-bodied and smooth with nice complexity of fruit as well as spicy balance with a palate that is a bit oily and thick and a bit alcoholic. Flavor is yeasty, spicy, peppery, and fruity with an aftertaste that is a tad smoky and robust with a finish that is clean and similar to a Saison-style in my opinion. Overall, nice amber ale here with lots of flavor and very drinkable even given the alcohol content; great beer here...

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This was one great friggin' beer. I real suprise since I've never had a Caracole beer before so I wasn't expecting this. A nice flowery aroma, with caramel and yeast. Flavors of caramel, malts, hops (yes hops!) and light fruit make this beer just one to cherish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

low head...sum lacing...looks like murky red tea with foam....not bad at all in the taste department....missing sumthing...some flavours buried in there...a toned down belgian that a new beer drinker would like!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Hazy dark amber body is topped by a good-sized, white head. The aroma is very bright, almost witbier like. My wife compared it to being slightly like the Lindeman’s Peche lambic. The flavor is brightly fruity, peaches, pears and a slight bit of citrus juice along with a nice malt. It’s not sour despite the aroma’s suggestion that it could be so. A very tasty and drinkable ambree.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Hazy orange colour, mediumsized off-white head. Sweet fruity aroma with some nutty hints. Flavour is sweet fruity with hints of sweet hops and also some nuts. Sweet fruitish aftertaste.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Bottle. Hazy copper colour, very lively with a nice 1cm thick off-white head. It’s got a nice classy Belgian aroma of sweet malt, dried fruit, fresh yeast and perhaps some alcohol. Nice spicey taste, fruity with some light hops. Medium bodied with a long lightly hoppy finish. Alcohol is well hid in the taste. Very good.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a very light amber, giant head that disappears quickly, immediate aroma of apples and coriander. Taste is decent enough, lots of citrus and yeasty. This wasn't at all what I was expecting but entirely welcome. Very good.