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Les Bière Des Sans Culottes
Brasserie La Choulette
- From:
- Brasserie La Choulette
- France
- Style:
- Bière de Garde
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 90
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 10.45%
- Reviews:
- 108
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 09, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 01, 2002
- Wants:
- 40
- Gots:
- 10
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Had this on draft 10/19/19 @ the Beer Temple.
Banana, caramel & faint clove flavors here; rich but very drinkable, and way bolder flavors than I was expecting. I'd have another!!
Oct 21, 2019Banana, caramel & faint clove flavors here; rich but very drinkable, and way bolder flavors than I was expecting. I'd have another!!
Reviewed by rudzud from Massachusetts
4.07/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Thanks to JLindros for sharing this bottle.
A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a nice slightly hazy with tons of turbidity.
S - Big aromas of grassy floral hops, soft corn, light and pleasant, dry nose.
T - Taste is similar to the nose with loads of esters, flashes of grassy hops and light bitterness. Finish is estery.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, crisp, clean.
O - Overall this was a solid enough de garde. Excellent ester characteristics.
Serving Type: bottle
Jul 27, 2019A - Poured into a Kate the Great tulip a nice slightly hazy with tons of turbidity.
S - Big aromas of grassy floral hops, soft corn, light and pleasant, dry nose.
T - Taste is similar to the nose with loads of esters, flashes of grassy hops and light bitterness. Finish is estery.
M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, crisp, clean.
O - Overall this was a solid enough de garde. Excellent ester characteristics.
Serving Type: bottle
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
4.26/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Reviewed as part of BJCP training, 24C. Biere de Garde. I think the bottle code says June 14, 2017, but not sure, but that could just be a code and I'm getting more than it should have.
Fills a decent head but low retention as it fades quickly, super hazy sediment laden yeast sediment due to the age likely, blond deeper gold color
Nose brings a ton of Belgian golden sweet malts, toasty and a little bready with a candi sugar and almost syrupy sweetness, rich complex almost layered malt aromas, a bit of yeast additions with mild spice phenols, citrus esters, and a touch of warming spicy alcohol. Although the style says generally clean fermentation, these seem to shy into the saison area with malt more in the biere de garde, and are very welcome aromatics. As it warms a slight aged oxidation, papery note, expected with the age
Taste high malt flavor again, very toasty rich, little bready, big Belgian blonde like honey malts, but very complex and rich, layered almost decoction like malt complexity, as well as a sweet candi sugar like flavor, then a wave of nice warming alcohol, inviting peppery phenols with the spicy alcohol, a touch of fruity citrus esters, a mild hop bitterness balancing the malts and yeast additions, also bringing maybe a slight spiciness as well. A drier finish, a touch sticky, bit more perfumey alcohol and spicy phenols lingering with the mild honey malt characters
Mouth is medium to a bit lighter bodied, a little smooth creamy texture and lager softness, very high carbonation which gets a little prickly and increases the spiciness of the warming alcohol
Overall a very nice enjoyable beer. Delicious malt characters, complex, nice yeast additions a bit more on the saison side but still enjoyable, a nice warming alcohol hits the spot but might get a little hot for the style, and carbonation might also be a tad high (probably both from extra bottle conditioning over time). Still quite nice.
Feb 15, 2019Fills a decent head but low retention as it fades quickly, super hazy sediment laden yeast sediment due to the age likely, blond deeper gold color
Nose brings a ton of Belgian golden sweet malts, toasty and a little bready with a candi sugar and almost syrupy sweetness, rich complex almost layered malt aromas, a bit of yeast additions with mild spice phenols, citrus esters, and a touch of warming spicy alcohol. Although the style says generally clean fermentation, these seem to shy into the saison area with malt more in the biere de garde, and are very welcome aromatics. As it warms a slight aged oxidation, papery note, expected with the age
Taste high malt flavor again, very toasty rich, little bready, big Belgian blonde like honey malts, but very complex and rich, layered almost decoction like malt complexity, as well as a sweet candi sugar like flavor, then a wave of nice warming alcohol, inviting peppery phenols with the spicy alcohol, a touch of fruity citrus esters, a mild hop bitterness balancing the malts and yeast additions, also bringing maybe a slight spiciness as well. A drier finish, a touch sticky, bit more perfumey alcohol and spicy phenols lingering with the mild honey malt characters
Mouth is medium to a bit lighter bodied, a little smooth creamy texture and lager softness, very high carbonation which gets a little prickly and increases the spiciness of the warming alcohol
Overall a very nice enjoyable beer. Delicious malt characters, complex, nice yeast additions a bit more on the saison side but still enjoyable, a nice warming alcohol hits the spot but might get a little hot for the style, and carbonation might also be a tad high (probably both from extra bottle conditioning over time). Still quite nice.
Reviewed by ajm5108 from Pennsylvania
4.31/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
4.31/5 rDev +7.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Translucent gold, lots of champagne carbonation, medium soapy head, small yeast globules. Aroma is earthy, slightly sweet & delightful - apple must, bees wax, honeycomb, white grape tannin, straw and light horse saddle. Taste leans more towards that sweeter side but presents enough contrast to maintain balance. Notes of white grape must, mineral water, honey, dry yeast, loam, cider, oak, light grassy hops on the end. Finish is very dry, like mineral water. Lots of depth, good contrast but it marries well. Didn’t love the finish but still a very goos beer.
May 06, 2018Reviewed by Yoann from France
3.74/5 rDev -7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev -7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a bottle to a tulip
A - Transparent golden with thin particles floating
S - Nutty malts, herbal hops, still some alcohol
T - Good balance
M - Not very carbonated but correct
O - Don't be fooled by the look of the bottle, it's actually good!
Apr 16, 2017A - Transparent golden with thin particles floating
S - Nutty malts, herbal hops, still some alcohol
T - Good balance
M - Not very carbonated but correct
O - Don't be fooled by the look of the bottle, it's actually good!
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
4.13/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.13/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Before the wine-drinkers got started on their bottles, I put Sans Culottes in their hands. Their responses repeated a previous test that went something like: "Ou la-la, this goes well with appetizers." So, if you want to convert others to craft brews, keep this biere de Garde in stock.
This beer faintly has the characteristics of wine and seems to complement most foods originating from the kitchens bordering the climates where good wine is made. Pretty with abundant foam and lace, the fruity nose has many layers of taste and just enough carbonation to cut through appetizers' oils... or most foods.
MJ's "Guide" gives it 3.5 stars of 4 and said it has "a yeasty note like that of Champagne."
Sans Cullotes is reviewed also in the "1001" and deserves to be on that list. The reviewer tells the story of how the owner of 25 years then (published in 2013) had lots of previous experience in French farmhouse ales. IMHO, it shows.
11/11/19 Had again twice, once on tap and once bottled. The tap may have tasted better, but this ale needs food to really show its stuff. And the bottle was good on the second day, as well. I'm still looking to repeat their Amber and Blonde and Framboise should I ever be able to find them. In case I don't, I did go on La Choulette's website and they had lots of pretty pictures (very French), but I couldn't find the English translation button (also very French.)
Apr 26, 2016This beer faintly has the characteristics of wine and seems to complement most foods originating from the kitchens bordering the climates where good wine is made. Pretty with abundant foam and lace, the fruity nose has many layers of taste and just enough carbonation to cut through appetizers' oils... or most foods.
MJ's "Guide" gives it 3.5 stars of 4 and said it has "a yeasty note like that of Champagne."
Sans Cullotes is reviewed also in the "1001" and deserves to be on that list. The reviewer tells the story of how the owner of 25 years then (published in 2013) had lots of previous experience in French farmhouse ales. IMHO, it shows.
11/11/19 Had again twice, once on tap and once bottled. The tap may have tasted better, but this ale needs food to really show its stuff. And the bottle was good on the second day, as well. I'm still looking to repeat their Amber and Blonde and Framboise should I ever be able to find them. In case I don't, I did go on La Choulette's website and they had lots of pretty pictures (very French), but I couldn't find the English translation button (also very French.)
Les Bière Des Sans Culottes from Brasserie La Choulette
Beer rating:
90 out of
100 with
151 ratings
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