La Sancerroise Au Gruyt
Brasserie Sancerroise
- From:
- Brasserie Sancerroise
- France
- Style:
- Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale
- ABV:
- 7.6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 9.97%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 28, 2016
- Added:
- Oct 05, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland
3.69/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from the bottle into a nonic pint glass. OOOPS you didn't check bottle dates but hey it's a Gruit… let's see here… Best if consumed by May 2010, oh boy but hey it's in the cold case. Sure why not!
Deep mahogany body, with a bit of rusted tan color to it. Good decant does well, but some floaties manage to still show up not unexpected. A nice real creamy tan head, almost chocolate like shows up in color, but descends easily to a simple thin puck, but good collar as well. This is a good looking for an old brew.
Lots of sugar and sweet herbs on the nose, but a dominant fussel alcohol manages to show up almost in a sweet malt liquor vein kind of way. Hints of thyme and sticky tree syrup with large sweetness. Brown sugar, garden herbs, and some noticeable sweet boozy qualities. Kind of interesting angle, as it hints to a sort of strong ale quality but with large herbal sweetness and sugars.
Quite an odd duck for this brew even in a gruit realm. First sip has a real decent backbone that is thick, but the flavors almost come out with a very unusual almost thick prune juice flavor. Sweet mid palate with a mix of sort of prune to caramel malt and brown ale quality. Real interesting an unexpected aftertaste, more booze, but also some green mint, herbal sage and soft tea tannic dryness as well. Noticeably warm but not horrible, but the herbality really accents some of the pruney sweetness much more nicely and starts to dominate with lots of different character.
Gruits are always fun once in awhile, and this one at first was a bit off putting but actually get more enjoyable as I drink it. Lots to explore here. I am having fun with this, and this has held up remarkably well too.
Mar 06, 2016Deep mahogany body, with a bit of rusted tan color to it. Good decant does well, but some floaties manage to still show up not unexpected. A nice real creamy tan head, almost chocolate like shows up in color, but descends easily to a simple thin puck, but good collar as well. This is a good looking for an old brew.
Lots of sugar and sweet herbs on the nose, but a dominant fussel alcohol manages to show up almost in a sweet malt liquor vein kind of way. Hints of thyme and sticky tree syrup with large sweetness. Brown sugar, garden herbs, and some noticeable sweet boozy qualities. Kind of interesting angle, as it hints to a sort of strong ale quality but with large herbal sweetness and sugars.
Quite an odd duck for this brew even in a gruit realm. First sip has a real decent backbone that is thick, but the flavors almost come out with a very unusual almost thick prune juice flavor. Sweet mid palate with a mix of sort of prune to caramel malt and brown ale quality. Real interesting an unexpected aftertaste, more booze, but also some green mint, herbal sage and soft tea tannic dryness as well. Noticeably warm but not horrible, but the herbality really accents some of the pruney sweetness much more nicely and starts to dominate with lots of different character.
Gruits are always fun once in awhile, and this one at first was a bit off putting but actually get more enjoyable as I drink it. Lots to explore here. I am having fun with this, and this has held up remarkably well too.
Reviewed by nmann08 from Virginia
3.13/5 rDev -13.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.13/5 rDev -13.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Found this bottle deep in a beer fridge. No bottling date, only a best by date of 5/2010, so considerably old.
It pours a very still, cloudy dark brown with amber and ruby red hues. Appears to have little carbonation.
Smell is moderately sweet, figs, dark fruit, green tee, spruce, caramel.
Flavor is dark fruit, sweet caramel, brown sugar, rosemary, but almost zero hops.
Mouthfeel is a little thin, watery, worn out, probably due to the age.
Overall, I am glad I found this, a random beer I probably would never get to try, but honestly, rare doesn't always equal good.
Oct 05, 2013It pours a very still, cloudy dark brown with amber and ruby red hues. Appears to have little carbonation.
Smell is moderately sweet, figs, dark fruit, green tee, spruce, caramel.
Flavor is dark fruit, sweet caramel, brown sugar, rosemary, but almost zero hops.
Mouthfeel is a little thin, watery, worn out, probably due to the age.
Overall, I am glad I found this, a random beer I probably would never get to try, but honestly, rare doesn't always equal good.
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