Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante (Collaboration Ale)
BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)

Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante (Collaboration Ale)Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante (Collaboration Ale)
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From:
BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
 
Switzerland
Style:
English Barleywine
ABV:
10.03%
Score:
77
Avg:
3.37 | pDev: 27%
Reviews:
83
Ratings:
204
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 29, 2020
Added:
Sep 21, 2011
Wants:
  9
Gots:
  29
Rare and Funky beer brewed with Spike from Terrapin for "Un Mare di Birra" Beer Cruise. Rum barrel aged Rye Barleywine (20% rye).
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

2.84/5  rDev -15.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
33cl bottle (2011) from Brewers Haven. Maybe 9 years is a bit too much. Muddy brown flat pour. Aroma is raisins, prunes, cherries, sweet and some tartness. Taste comes in very sweet, like prune juice on steroids, with an acidic tinge on the finish. Not overly welcoming, but a rye barleywine aged in rum barrels is bound to be sweet. Will continue to sip to see if the character changes.
Apr 29, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by calcnerd from Pennsylvania

Apr 22, 2016
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Reviewed by ChairmanHoltz from New York

1/5  rDev -70.3%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
This beer holds a special place in my plumbing system as the first drain pour it ever received. It's a failure in all respects. The pour looks like you sliced the corner off of a year-old bag of produce and let the juices flow. The resulting pool that collects in your glass is still, dead, and wholly unappealing. The nose is spoiled balsamic vinegar and the taste follows suit. The feel is flat, heavy, and it stays with you like a ratty stray dog you decided to feed. A true disaster of a beer. And it's $10+ for an 11.2 oz. bottle.

I can't imagine that when the brewers said "let's make a rum barrel aged English barleywine," this is what they envisioned. It is uncarbonated infected afterbirth. For what it's worth, BFM also makes √225, which is the greatest beer known to, well, me, I guess.
Jan 06, 2016
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Reviewed by cjgator3 from Florida

3.27/5  rDev -3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
11.4 oz bottle
Bottled in 2011
10.0276% ABV

Purchased this bottle for $9.99. Poured into a snifter. Very little carbonation with this beer. The aroma and taste is tart rum soaked cherries, plums, and raisins. The taste is extremely tart with some dark fruits and alcohol in the background.
Dec 31, 2015
 
Rated: 4.28 by leprechaunandfatman from Ohio

Dec 25, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by teamwiggum from Wisconsin

Dec 04, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by bigred89 from Maryland

Nov 01, 2015
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Reviewed by pat61 from Minnesota

4/5  rDev +18.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From cellar, purchased in 2011.
L: Pours murky brown with little sign of effervescence and no head.
S: Dates, plum pudding, traces of port, a little winey, some earthiness, lemon, citrus and acid.
T: Prune, alcoholic, rum, lemony tartness, vanilla, faint caramel with a buttery aftertaste. Not much rum character and the oakiness is restrained. The tartness masks some of the effects of aging.
F: Fairly thick, flat, like a heavy wine.
O: An interesting beer, not to everyone’s taste, that comes across like a tart, flat English Old Ale laced with a shot of vinegar. As a flat sour, I like De Oude Cam better.
Aug 01, 2015
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Rated by BMBCLT from South Carolina

1/5  rDev -70.3%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Zero carbonation. All around bad. This is definitely infected.

Drain-pour!
Jul 07, 2015
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Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming

3.29/5  rDev -2.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
A hard pour produced a small amount of foam that quickly disappears. Pretty much no lacing. Well, it's a 2011.

The colour is an opaque dark brown.

Initial whiffs reveal something very English Barleywine like with sweet caramel notes but that surrenders to a flood of sour aromas. That and some astringency.

Definitely a mix of English Barleywine and fruity, vinegar sourness. Could it be I this doesn't age well or was the intended result of the 2 breweries?

Decent mouthfeel.

Not a drain pour by any means but not something that I would buy again
Jun 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3 by XmnwildX12 from Minnesota

Jun 05, 2015
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Reviewed by bcp5296d from North Carolina

3.02/5  rDev -10.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Looks like a brown ale or flanders. Smells like an american red sour, and taste is the same. Thick mouthfeel but not much going on here but mild sourness. At 10 bucks a 375, this beer is grossly overpriced, but somewhat enjoyable as a unique beer. Possibly worth trying, but would not come close to buying again at that price.
May 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.86 by wellsnb from Ohio

Apr 03, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Matty123 from Connecticut

Feb 07, 2015
 
Rated: 3.01 by memphischas from Tennessee

Jan 21, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by wethorseblanket from California

Jan 18, 2015
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Reviewed by NateF90 from Connecticut

3.68/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
One-half of a 33 cl swing-top dated 2011 poured into a Beer'd Belgian flute (the other half went to my better half...). Not barely a hiss, but 5 pencil-tip sized bubbles worth of carbonation. Pours opaque and with apparent viscosity. The nose hits immediately with sour, lacto, acetic whatever. Sour. Not unpleasant though. As the glass warmed notes of wood and booze became more and more evident. Aroma is an integral part of a good sip of this beer more so than others. The flavor is again predominately sour, coupled with just a hint of oak and a finish of cherries. Not very deep, nor very subtle. I may have sampled this guy well past its prime, but I am very much so enjoying my half glass. Mouthfeel is heavier than I think I'd enjoy but not unpleasant. Mediocre brew definitely worth trying but isn't worth its space in the cellar (nor the price).
Jan 17, 2015
 
Rated: 3.35 by sendbeer from Georgia

Jan 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.16 by s1ckboy from Massachusetts

Dec 28, 2014
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Reviewed by GPHarris from Alabama

2.74/5  rDev -18.7%
look: 2 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 1 | overall: 2
2011

A - poured a dark brown, near black color into a snifter. No head and the carbonation obviously did not last.
S - fruit like raisins and cherries.
T - tart cherry, oak.
M - slick and coating but no carbonation.
O - had potential but the swing top didn't hold the carbonation.
Dec 21, 2014
Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante (Collaboration Ale) from BFM (Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes)
Beer rating: 77 out of 100 with 204 ratings