Ducassis
Brasserie Des Légendes

Cerveza con una pequeña cabeza espumosa de poca retención. Cuerpo ligero y carbonatación alta. Aroma a grosella. En boca tiene una ligera acidez aunque resulta algo plana.

 

Bottle 250 ml | Batch # L141 | Best before end of 07-2016 | Bar code 5 425005 660465
Served in tulip glassware

Appearance: Brown, when lighted up - Amber Red Cloudy | 20 mm foam quickly disappeared | Almost no bubbles | Noisy
Smell: Fruity, Black Currant
Taste: Black Currant (Beer contains 30% of berries), At the edge between sour and sweet
Mouthfeel: Sharp, Watery
Overall: Light fruity beer for ladies

NB: Nowadays Ducassis has new labels design and 3.00% ABV

A: Massive head of pink foam from top to bottom. Taking too long to settle. Girly pinky red body.
S: Ribena.
T: Pure Ribena. So foamy at first that the fizz has all but gone. Better with the second pour. Actually has a nice sharp fizziness but it's so foamy I'm not able to drink it. Reckon I'll get quarter of a glass out of it. It's actually very nice as an alcopop, but it ain't no beer. Just imagine fizzy Ribena.
O: Only got half a glass out of it. Ridiculously foamy. It was ten minutes before I could drink it properly.

 

 

 

 

 

I had a few ticker-inspired impulse buys earlier in the week... This is the first of those reviews...

Bottle into Captain Lawrence tulip.

A reddish purple murky color-- looks like a really bad bruise after a few days. Light tan head furiously bubbled for 30 seconds, but faded fast. The beer seems more like a wine spritzer... Virtually no fruit character, and certainly no black currant. The little fruit I find is more like a generic berry note, like wild berry fruit punch.

This isn't the worst beer ever, but this is like a Belgian version of Wild Blue... And that isn't a good thing. No lacing, no retention, very weak nose, and a flavor that barely hits any of the promise the label appeared to make. The body is very thin, and pretty overcarbed.
This is pretty unenjoyable in most aspects by which I would rate a beer.
This reminds me of blackberry Clearly Canadian-- but not in a good way.

From Tap In BLOWbeerBAR
.Dry red colour, with white-pinkly head.Smoothy. The smell is black currant, and some spicy. Natural black currant, no chemics. And the flavour goes better. Black currant in your mouth with some funky flavour, and dry finish. the one i´ve tried has 3º.

A: Nice color. No head at all from my pour and there is fruit bits at the bottom of the glass.

S: Overwhelming fruit smell.

T: Nice tart currant taste. A hint of funkiness that is a little off-putting.

M: Smooth, almost no fizz. Kind of like drinking grape juice that is slightly carbonated.

D: I could drink this. I'd definitely choose it over a lot of drinks, but not one of my favorite lambics. Definitely a nice summer choice.

(served in tulip glass)
A- This beer has a deep cranberry crystal clear body with some bubbles racing through floatsum to the surface. The thin bubbly white head last for a good bit.
S- This beer has a fruity dry black currant aroma. There is a slight farm note that grows as it warms with black currant skins in the finish.
T- This beer has a dry black fresh currant flavor with a soft iced tea flavor and a finish of carbonic acid bite.
M- This beer has a medium mouthfeel with a crisp finish and no alcohol heat.
D- This beer is almost a dry cassis soda pop that is refreshing that showcases the berries but little malt or hops support. There is lots of sediment in the bottom that makes the 11.2oz bottle even smaller.

A- Pours a slightly hazy brownish-red. Soft lavender-tinged head rings the glass

S- Tart currant aromas

T- Very light in flavor. Its tasty, but so is ___-flavored soda water. Something's sorely missing here.

M- Thin. Ribena has more body (and more flavor for that matter) than this. The amount of carbonation is pleasant however

D- If it were 100 degrees out by the pool, this would be da bomb. It drinks like flavored soda water.

I decided to try another cassis to compare to Lindemans.

It's almost a grapefruit color, with a thin white head. Honestly, i'm having trouble distinguishing the smell from Welch's grape juice. The faint taste is washed away quickly by what feels like a gush of soda water. The lingering taste of currant is somewhat pleasant, but overall I'll stick with Lindemans.

Pours a clear garnet with a small white head. Nose smells like tart berries with sugar sprinkled on top. Flavor is tart and dry cassis with a smooth overall tone. It doesn’t sway or wander from the original hits you get and over time it gets even nicer. Feel is low on carbonation and is smooth overall. For a flavored beer, this is actually pretty smooth - though I will admit that I kind of dig these kinds of brew. I am not sure if cassis is a flavor everyone would go for, but I like it and think it is worth trying.

Appearance: Pours a cloudy pink lemonade color with a sturdy pale lavendar head that leaves shards of lace; little floaties abound in suspension

Smell: Others must have had old bottles as mine has a fulsome aroma of tart black currants

Taste: Opens with a slightly tart flavor of black currant and that flavor persists for a long time on the palate; the finish is dry, with a touch of woody flavor

Mouthfeel: Light body and highly carbonated

Drinkability: A lovely beer for a summer apertif; others have complained about the lack of complexity but that is not the point with this beer; it is the beer drinkers answer to a kir

What an uninteresting Belgian beer! It pours a slightly reddish purplish color, with little if any head. There is little carbonation either. The smell is a bit fruity and nice, and clearly the high point of the beer. The pour is a little hazy but there are no yeasty bits floating about. At the bottom of the bottle you find some loose sediment. They tell me the fruitiness is blackberry currants. I won't argue. The beer is very bland, there is a hint of fruit in their somewhere maybe like watered down grape juice, no hoppiness at all. The mouthfeel is just light and insubstantial. This could be a thirst quenching summer-ade, but why spend the money for that. This is just a bland, uninteresting, light bodied, beer that hasn't much going for it. There is a little bit of a bite at the end, but no soury feel or interesting yeasts coming through. Keep looking.

Pink in small quantities with a pink-ish/red color overall and a bit chuncky. The light pink head dissipates quickly leaving a light carbonation ring. Interesting grape juice aroma with some tart raspberry character and light medicinal qulaities. The only beer I can remember that tastes so similar to grape juice. Light bodied and a bit airy with a lightly tart raspberry-like finish.

Per Label: "Kasteel-Brouwerij" & "Cassis"

Per BDG website: The first top fermented beer to be made with real blackcurrant berries.

(330ml / 11.2 oz. sleek yellow-ish brown Euro-style bottle)

Pours with an off-white, purplish tinged, initially two-finger thick head that leaves some lacing patterns as if slowly subsides. The beer shows a purplish hue as it is poured, but rests a brilliantly clear, deep red color in my glass. The aroma is quite fruity, sweet and berry like, with a sold current aroma that is sweet, fleshy and even has a tannic fruit skin type thing to it. Not much else is noticeable underneath the currant notes.

Wonderful, the beer is not sweet at all like I had feared, instead it leans towards a lightly tart fruit character. It is pretty well carbonated as well, though not overly so, and is quite light on the palate. This beer is quite fruity, but, because of the lack of sweetness, it is in a non-traditional way. It has a fleshy berry character that I can't quite describe; it almost takes on a touch of tannic astringency, but this is not all that noticeable and perhaps adds to the mouthfeel more than anything. I could certainly wish for a bit more body here though; a touch more tannic character would do the trick. This is quite light, and even refreshing, but the flavor just doesn't seem to do much for me. I am surprised to say it, but a hint of sweetness here might even be welcome, though I wouldn't want much.