Champagne Ale
Franconia Brewing Company
- From:
- Franconia Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Bière de Champagne / Bière Brut
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.11 | pDev: 29.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 01, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 31, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.2/5 rDev -29.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
2.2/5 rDev -29.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
12 fl oz brown glass bottle with unbranded pry-off crown cap nabbed at a Total Wine & More in Austin, TX for $2.99 USD. "Franconia Champagne Ale" (note this is not "McKinney Champagne"). World tour 2016.
"Ale."
APPEARANCE: Deep copper body. Frothy off-white head. Pretty unremarkable across the board, though its head retention is nice at ~6 minutes.
AROMA: Raw sweetness, as of wort or beer that isn't done fully fermenting. Seems extremely poorly attenuated. There's some German bready malt character, but little else. Slightly doughy. Hints of red grape. Artificial fruit extract....raspberry? It borders on medicinal fruitwise.
A confused aroma that doesn't fit any particular style. Seems chaotic, but it's not boozy and there aren't any egregious off-notes.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Rife with artificial fruit extract flavours (grape, raspberry, blackberry) and raw wort-like sweetness. It's not awful, but it tastes like a homebrewer just threw random ingredients in willy-nilly without any regard for style conventions or brewing traditions. Very chaotic and imbalanced...I'm not sure what they were going for here.
TEXTURE: Full-bodied. Syrupy. Thick. Unrefreshing. Smooth. Wet. Horribly overcarbonated.
Badly executed any way you look at it.
OVERALL: Drinks like homebrew...the kind of beer your buddy makes as his third homebrew attempt and you smile and say "It's not bad" about to be kind. After all, it'll get you drunk.
High D / NOT RECOMMENDED
Mar 31, 2018"Ale."
APPEARANCE: Deep copper body. Frothy off-white head. Pretty unremarkable across the board, though its head retention is nice at ~6 minutes.
AROMA: Raw sweetness, as of wort or beer that isn't done fully fermenting. Seems extremely poorly attenuated. There's some German bready malt character, but little else. Slightly doughy. Hints of red grape. Artificial fruit extract....raspberry? It borders on medicinal fruitwise.
A confused aroma that doesn't fit any particular style. Seems chaotic, but it's not boozy and there aren't any egregious off-notes.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Rife with artificial fruit extract flavours (grape, raspberry, blackberry) and raw wort-like sweetness. It's not awful, but it tastes like a homebrewer just threw random ingredients in willy-nilly without any regard for style conventions or brewing traditions. Very chaotic and imbalanced...I'm not sure what they were going for here.
TEXTURE: Full-bodied. Syrupy. Thick. Unrefreshing. Smooth. Wet. Horribly overcarbonated.
Badly executed any way you look at it.
OVERALL: Drinks like homebrew...the kind of beer your buddy makes as his third homebrew attempt and you smile and say "It's not bad" about to be kind. After all, it'll get you drunk.
High D / NOT RECOMMENDED
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