Cap D'Ona Blonde Speciale Au Muscat
Brasserie Des Alberes

Pours pale golden, thin white cap that lasts for quite a while, along with a small lace.
Smell is at a minimum, with some rustic white wine, some grains, a touch of sweetness and a generic mineral lager beer whiff.
Taste starts dry and crisp, and the palate is immediately hit by a big carbonation along with a typical white wine (almost champagne) acidity. Some nice dried up apricots, getting sweeter with some honey even, ending with the same crispness, but accompanied by a nice fruitiness and some floral notes. White bread throughout.
Prepare your palate, cause the carbonation stays aggressive for a very long time. Sure, the prickle is nice, but it does get tiring.
This was quite interesting. I was sincerely expecting a total flop, but it wasn't.

Pours a light orange-straw color with a fizzly white head that manages to stick around as a small cap due to high carbonation streaming upward. Aroma is very heavy on the sweet muscat grapes with background notes typical of your average euro pale lager, i.e. grains, minerals. There’s also a strange note that, at least to me, smels like airplane. As in when you get on a plane and you get that canned air and fabric seats aroma. Or maybe it’s kinda new car-ish. Flavor is basically the same as the aroma, lots of grapes with a pedestrian lager profile behind it. This is a sweet beer but the body is thin with a short finish so it doesn’t really fatigue the palate too much. I kinda dig the grapiness. If I’m gonna have a random French hot-day beer, I’d rather it taste like grapes than molding barley and hard tap water like Kronenbarf. Now that I think about it, I’m not even sure that this is a lager anymore. I kinda just assumed it was, because it smells like one, but then again how many fruit lagers are there? As it warms it takes on a vanilla pudding/honey character to go with the muscat. Thinking this is an ale now. Six percent with grapes. Can’t be a lager right? Further research is showing that this is a lager fortified with muscat wine, not just a beer with grapes. Weird.