La Saint-Claude De Printemps
Brasserie La Saint-Pierre
- From:
- Brasserie La Saint-Pierre
- France
- Style:
- Belgian Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.42 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 20, 2011
- Added:
- Jun 20, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
2.42/5 rDev 0%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5
500ml bottle acquired in Le Village de la Biere in Strasbourg, France. Served into a Guinness brewhouse series true imperial pint glass in Belfort, France. Reviewed live.
This is a springbier, but beeradvocate offers no adequate category for this. As always, we're forced to shove even categories like Belgian Golden Ale and Belgian Blonde Ale into the catch-all of "Belgian Pale Ale", often going even against the brewery's own recommendations (see Duvel for the most egregious example of this savagery). Many spring beers are offered year round! Let me contend that nebulousness of category is preferable to outright miscategorization. I don't want to see beer genres go the over-detailed route of techno music wherein each one has its own style, but come on now, this system has its flaws.
A: I can see the fecking yeast drooping down the side long before I even open the bottle. She pours a one finger head, quite thin, devoid of cream, and featuring below average retention. Colour is a textbok hazy copper.
Sm: Caramelized malt, light springyish esters me broken nose can't quite place, and fermented sugar. Yeast may or may not be there. All apologies for me broken nose.
T: The notes from the nose, in the order listed above. The climax is underwhelming fermented sugar, with dying esters and caramelized malt - though that said the malt is well handled, avoiding the pitfalls of say Spanish lagers (see San Miguel for a masterclass in how not to do malt). It's refreshing and pleasant, but far from complex or bold. The balance is a bit awkwardly favorable of the first two acts, shunning the final one, but the build is adequate for the style.
Mf: Sharp barley is coarse where it doesn't have to be and the overdone wetness thins the foundation. Not at all complementary of the flavours of the body. This should be a simple smooth and wet feel.
Dr: Averagish ABV, not-so-easy drinkability, and mediocre quality make this beer one to leave on the shelf, especially at its price point. I can't imagine what it would cost as an import.
Jun 20, 2011This is a springbier, but beeradvocate offers no adequate category for this. As always, we're forced to shove even categories like Belgian Golden Ale and Belgian Blonde Ale into the catch-all of "Belgian Pale Ale", often going even against the brewery's own recommendations (see Duvel for the most egregious example of this savagery). Many spring beers are offered year round! Let me contend that nebulousness of category is preferable to outright miscategorization. I don't want to see beer genres go the over-detailed route of techno music wherein each one has its own style, but come on now, this system has its flaws.
A: I can see the fecking yeast drooping down the side long before I even open the bottle. She pours a one finger head, quite thin, devoid of cream, and featuring below average retention. Colour is a textbok hazy copper.
Sm: Caramelized malt, light springyish esters me broken nose can't quite place, and fermented sugar. Yeast may or may not be there. All apologies for me broken nose.
T: The notes from the nose, in the order listed above. The climax is underwhelming fermented sugar, with dying esters and caramelized malt - though that said the malt is well handled, avoiding the pitfalls of say Spanish lagers (see San Miguel for a masterclass in how not to do malt). It's refreshing and pleasant, but far from complex or bold. The balance is a bit awkwardly favorable of the first two acts, shunning the final one, but the build is adequate for the style.
Mf: Sharp barley is coarse where it doesn't have to be and the overdone wetness thins the foundation. Not at all complementary of the flavours of the body. This should be a simple smooth and wet feel.
Dr: Averagish ABV, not-so-easy drinkability, and mediocre quality make this beer one to leave on the shelf, especially at its price point. I can't imagine what it would cost as an import.
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