La Moneuse | Brasserie de Blaugies
Brewed by:
Brasserie de Blaugies
Belgium
brasseriedeblaugies.com
Style: Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 8.00%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
La Moneuse is named for A. J. Moneuse (b. 1768), a famous local bandit and gang leader, and ancestor of the brewers’ family. It is a classic "saison" beer by virtue of its strength and its earthy, aged quality. It has a hardy, semi-dry malt character, a fresh but not overpowering hoppiness, abundant yeasty, fruity flavors and a fairly strong, but pleasant and enticing mustiness.
Added by NeroFiddled on 10-04-2002
Ratings: 303 | Reviews: 144
4.29/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
3.99/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.2/5 rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Very balanced brew, doesn't seem like a 8% ABV drink. This is brewed with figs but it's only lightly present in the smell. Apart from that, it's a good mix oh herbal and earthy hops, bready malts, light peppery yeast and some honey. Really good stuff
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Very balanced brew, doesn't seem like a 8% ABV drink. This is brewed with figs but it's only lightly present in the smell. Apart from that, it's a good mix oh herbal and earthy hops, bready malts, light peppery yeast and some honey. Really good stuff
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3.75/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4.49/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
It has a kind of rustic depth, full of yeasty spice, golden fruits, touches of honey, and well baked bread.
The mouthfeel is smooth yet prickly from the carbonation, that can - if allowed to - create an impressive amount of foam.
The alcohol is never particulary prounced taste wise, and instead supports the feel of carbonated creaminess.
This is lovely stuff. And goes great with just about anything.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
It has a kind of rustic depth, full of yeasty spice, golden fruits, touches of honey, and well baked bread.
The mouthfeel is smooth yet prickly from the carbonation, that can - if allowed to - create an impressive amount of foam.
The alcohol is never particulary prounced taste wise, and instead supports the feel of carbonated creaminess.
This is lovely stuff. And goes great with just about anything.
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3.96/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.25/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.21/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
750 ml caged and corked bottle, the cap on the caging is smudged but it looks like the printing on it says BL10115. I guess it's a 2015 bottle? Served in a Unibroue tulip, the beer pours a hazy orange/amber color with a couple inch off-white head. Head retention is really good, and there's a decent amount of lacing. I like the aroma, the brew smells like clove, apple, earthiness, wheat/grainy malt and peppery spice. It tastes like yeasty earthiness, wheat/grainy malt, hay, peppery spice, apple, clove, and a bit of apricot. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's somewhat dry with a lot of carbonation. But the carbonation is soft, and I thought it was easy enough to drink. I liked this brew a lot, it's a very enjoyable saison. Definitely recommend this to anyone who likes saisons.
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look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
750 ml caged and corked bottle, the cap on the caging is smudged but it looks like the printing on it says BL10115. I guess it's a 2015 bottle? Served in a Unibroue tulip, the beer pours a hazy orange/amber color with a couple inch off-white head. Head retention is really good, and there's a decent amount of lacing. I like the aroma, the brew smells like clove, apple, earthiness, wheat/grainy malt and peppery spice. It tastes like yeasty earthiness, wheat/grainy malt, hay, peppery spice, apple, clove, and a bit of apricot. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's somewhat dry with a lot of carbonation. But the carbonation is soft, and I thought it was easy enough to drink. I liked this brew a lot, it's a very enjoyable saison. Definitely recommend this to anyone who likes saisons.
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3.68/5 rDev -10.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.92/5 rDev -4.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.18/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Had all but the Noel from this farmhouse brewery and I have appreciated all.
La Moneuse strikes me as a classic and I am glad to have shared it on three occasions... this last one with you.
The big rocky head tells me that lots went into this and wants to get out.
Aroma bursts out at me. All the earthy, grainy fragrances that I could want in a beer intended to complement an average meal (my ratatouille, frozen.)
The taste is largely the same (possibly with more fruits than I smelled), but finishes dry... which takes a lot of skills when paired with a food whose key ingredient is garlic (which makes me salivate.)
Find it, buy it, share it with others at a meal.
Listed in the "1001 Beers To Taste Before You Die", La Moneuese deserves to be there.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Had all but the Noel from this farmhouse brewery and I have appreciated all.
La Moneuse strikes me as a classic and I am glad to have shared it on three occasions... this last one with you.
The big rocky head tells me that lots went into this and wants to get out.
Aroma bursts out at me. All the earthy, grainy fragrances that I could want in a beer intended to complement an average meal (my ratatouille, frozen.)
The taste is largely the same (possibly with more fruits than I smelled), but finishes dry... which takes a lot of skills when paired with a food whose key ingredient is garlic (which makes me salivate.)
Find it, buy it, share it with others at a meal.
Listed in the "1001 Beers To Taste Before You Die", La Moneuese deserves to be there.
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3.25/5 rDev -20.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.5/5 rDev -14.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.85/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Hazy amber color with off-white head. Aroma has sweet malt, a bit of spicy yeast character and overall nice rustic farmhouse notes. Taste starts with overripe fruit and white pepper, continues with spicy yeast flavor and finishes more bitter with earthy hops. Medium body with quite soft mouthfeel and carbonation. Alcohol is hidden pretty well. Interesting saison overall. Rustic with spicy character and nice mouthfeel.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Hazy amber color with off-white head. Aroma has sweet malt, a bit of spicy yeast character and overall nice rustic farmhouse notes. Taste starts with overripe fruit and white pepper, continues with spicy yeast flavor and finishes more bitter with earthy hops. Medium body with quite soft mouthfeel and carbonation. Alcohol is hidden pretty well. Interesting saison overall. Rustic with spicy character and nice mouthfeel.
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4.75/5 rDev +15.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.04/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
La Moneuse from Brasserie de Blaugies
4.1
out of 5
based on 303 ratings.
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Dusty bottle, last one on the shelf.
Well carbonated, the bottle opens with a bang and gunsmoke in the air. Explosive foam in the glass, it settles with a loose meringue texture, with trails of large bubbles rising from the beer. Darker amber color, slightly hazy.
Aroma is lightly funky, wet hay, cidery yeast, bready malts. Not quite lambic territory, but nicely rustic.
Taste has a tart crabapple note, funky cider, malty in the middle. Carbonation is a little coarse and peters out quickly.
Medium bodied and tart with a semi dry finish. Overall it's pretty interesting, I tried Blaugies years ago and i'm happy to revisit.
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