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Grande Dame 7.0%, Brasserie Trois Dames, Switzerland
2 ratings
Grande Dame
7.0% Sour Red / Brown

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Post author: Morm
Morm
5 years ago
4.0

Post author: WexiLahti
WexiLahti
@ Au Coin Mousse (CLOSED PERMANENTLY)
6 years ago
Grande Dame, Switzerland
4.8
Time for Swiss 🇨🇭  Therefore, flight 1/4. 👍🏻 Murky, deep dark brown beer with a massive raisiny tint and moderate, hasty carbonation releases a thin, cream-colored, cotton lace ring on top. The scent offers a bold punch of red wine, massive purple grape and ripe apple. I get additionally a generous dollop of overfermented redcurrant juice that would most likely be undrinkable in reality as well as strong red gooseberry. The first sip is a painful slap against my poor taste receptors: an extremely sour and powerful cocktail of redcurrant, rowanberry, cranberry, red gooseberry and very sour winter apple pushes my cells to the limit and give no mercy. I don't, however, get any red wine. Well whatever... I must admit that I love that slap! The body is light-medium, perhaps medium if I'm on a good mood. And why wasn't I? The beer ends with overwhelming sour rowanberry, bags of redcurrant, a good amount of cranberry, some apple as well as distinct red grape. The duration of the aftertaste is medium. Interestingly, I guess this should contain apricot -- that's what I concluded of the name. Nevertheless, I can't get a molecule of apricot. Maybe because I'm used to fresh or dried apricot but not this kind of superfermented vinous apricot. The mouthfeel is extraordinarily tart, overwhelmingly puckering, heavily acetic, significantly dry as well as mouth-drying, yet still a bit lip-glueing that comes as a surprise. It's also somewhat rustic and significantly cellary. This beer is nicely rich, deep and intriguingly funky with capital F. Simply a heavenly example of the genre.