La Choulette Bière des Sans Culottes
Made in the tradition of artisan brewers, Sans Culottes is a blonde beer sur lie. Probably the best bière de garde for the uninitiated to start with.
Packed in a 75 cls bottle with a wired-down cork, Sans Culottes sports a brilliantly eye-catching label showing a revolutionary soldier proudly wearing his pantalons, having wisely forsaken his culottes for the coming struggle.
Packed in a 75 cls bottle with a wired-down cork, Sans Culottes sports a brilliantly eye-catching label showing a revolutionary soldier proudly wearing his pantalons, having wisely forsaken his culottes for the coming struggle.
3.4
314 reviews
Hordain, France
Community reviews
bottle from Saveur-Bière. Hazy golden with a white head. Full-bodied, malty with honey, shy herbal hops. Good.
Thanks Kapusil!! Kinda hazy big head dissipates quickly. Kinda sweet almond and fruit. Palate is nice though a bit mild. Some tang at first that melts into a slightly honey sappy sweet brew. Still a n00b when it comes to the style bit this along with 3Monts are both nice examples.
0.75l bottle. Slightly hazy golden body, quickly collapsing white head. Aroma of bread, apricot, orange zest and some metal. Taste of bread, apricot, grains, orange and floral hops. Fairly sweet beer. I like it.
Shared 25.4 oz. bottle. Pale gold and hazy with a white head. Aomra and taste is malty and bready with floral notes. Mildly sweet and and mildly bitter. ABV well-hidden. Okay.
Bottle shared with koleminer20. Best buy October 30, 2009? Jesus Christ. Thanks Oliver T’s. Aroma is slightly tart, fruit, malt, eh. Appearance is copper brown, off white head, slight haze and a little chunky. Taste is sweet malt, week, slight bitterness, good lord This is wrong. Mouthfeel is light to medium body, watery, super light carbonation, garbage. Overall, guess I should’ve checked the bottle. This is wrong.
750 mL bottle shared by ebone1988 for this piece of shit book. Fuck Oliver T’s for selling a beer that’s best before October 30 2009. The pour is a chunky amber color with a thin ring of off white head and a couple spots of lace. The aroma is dominated by sweet malts. I wish I could find something other than sweet malts. This should be a disaster. The flavor is sweet malt. There is a lot of caramel and toffee with a strong breadiness. This sucks. There is nothing else. The mouth feel is thin and watery. There is no carbonation and a lingeringly terrible malty dominance. It’s sweet toffee and caramel. This is garbage. Down the drain she goes. Fuck this.
Bottle. Different label than pictured here, but the name and Brewer fit. Very lively very hazy golden amber. Pale cereal malts, honey, cooked pineapple, a hint of bandaid. I’m thinking this is old...
Aroma: highly malty, apple juice aroma, similar to French chestnut beer I’ve had; Appearance: golden straw with somewhat hazy pour and thin, white head that dissipates quickly; Taste: not quite as malty as aroma, but definitely present; Palate: medium body with long, malty finish; Overall: better than chestnut beer but definitely not my thing.
33cl bottle. Clear golden colour with a large but quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is earthy, yeast, bready, malt, fruit, bordering on being almost skunky, musty hay. Taste is kind of sweet malt, hops, but very yeasty, with earthy notes and actually quite some sourness comes through. Very fizzy carbonation, dry. Got better as it warmed up but can’t say it’s a favourite of mine, wasn’t what I was expecting.
Bottle 0.75l at Ratebeer tasting Borresteijn place Zaandam Netherlands.15.04.2016.Taste with Borresteijn, Zlotta, Potjebier, adamnowek, skortila, MarcoDL and Harmen. Thank you guys for sharing all great beers.Pour it hazy golden color with small white head.Aroma of spices,sweet,Belgian yeast.Taste starts quite spice,some apples on the back,finish smooth Belgian yeast.Ok
Clear golden in colour. Taste is chemical sweetness. Aroma is pure sugar. Not very good.
Bottle at tasting. Golden pour. Aroma of grainy malt mostly. Taste of sweet malt, grain, dry-ish yeast and some grassy hop. Not bad.
Bottle tasted @ Bor’s place. The aroma has earthy yeast,some caramel, bread. Clear, golden coloured beer with a white head. The taste is bit sweetish toffee, earthy. Medium bodied.
Sampled from 0.75 l bottle from ’Saveur Bière’, best before December 2016, shared at Borresteijn’s place. Clear, golden yellow with a white head. Sweetish-malty, slightly spicy aroma of caramel, honey, vanilla and and some clove. Sweetish-malty, slightly spicy taste of caramel, honey, some clove and vanilla, followed by a short, a little bitter, slightly spicy finish. Medium body, slightly effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Quite sweet but tasty!
75cl Bottle. Hazy golden colour, white head. Aroma is very sweet, bready malts, spicy yeast. Flavour is quite sweet and bready malty as well, light spicy, hint of lemon. Light to medium bodied. Too sweet for me.
Bottled. Orangeish golden colour with a small foamy/creamy white head. Aroma is fruity, some herbal, wooden and bready notes along with mild yeastiness. Flavour is fruity, floral, some wooden, bready and mild nutty and toffeeish notes. Get some mild berryish notes as it gets warmer.
Bottle. Dry, tasty, fruity beer. To me this had a piney flavour, was quite zesty and good blend.
Complex, with strong candy and fruit notes from the malt and yeast. Despite being French, it’s really similar to a Belgian ale in most respects. I found it to be really, even surprisingly, refreshing, especially considering that it’s both high alcohol and malt forward.
Almost clear yellow golden color with medium head. Aroma is lovely fruity, yeast. Flavor is fruits, malt. Great!
Golden yellow liquid topped with a fluffy foam - that fades down quite quickly. Smells of herb, malt, ananas; very attractive. Tastes of honey, yellow fruit, pear; gourmande and subtle; a bit syrupy. Unobtrusive bitterness that is nevertheless sufficent to structure the body. Lacks slightly complexity.
From 0,75l bottle, Pours clear golden liquid, small white head, Aroma: peach, spicy, grapes, floral, elderflower, Taste: light to medium sweet, light to medium bitter, light to medium sour, peach, sweet, fruity, candied, spicy, Palate: medium body, creamy mouthfeel, average carbonation,Overall: fine, enjoyed, very nice.
Bottle. Yellow golden, white head. Sweet malty aroma. Taste sweet, alcohol, pleasant yeast. Good.
Bottle. Aroma slightly bretty bubblegum, sweetish, lemony. Clear golden colour. Taste very harmonic, slightly sweet, bubblegum, only light lemony and spicy element. Very tasty, highly carbonated, refreshing, drinkable.
Bottle. Golden color with medium white head. Malt, sweetness in aroma. Taste, malt, spices, light sourness in finish. Very goo.
Pours clear yellow to golden with light orange hue. Head is small, white that dissipates to floating islands on top of the beer. Very strange is that there are small yeast(?) pieces all around that don’t alter the texture of the beer or anything else. Aroma is sweet, hay, candy sugar, bready notes, some unidentifiable spices. Flavor is sweet, fruity(apple?) with light citrus notes, malty that finished beautifully hoppy. The ballance is amazing. Dry and medium carbonation. One of the best examples I have ever tasted.
Clear copper of color with a white head. An aroma of herbs, spice, mint, fresh and summer. A flavor of herbs, mint, elderberry flower, spice and fresh.
A golden beer with a big and white head. The nose has balanced grain and fruits, some grass and earthyness, hint of white asparagus. Taste is slighty sweet, herbs, some musty malts, also asparagus. Medium bodied, strong carbonation. Basic brewing, easy and nicely to drink.
bottle @ Vino Bellissimo / Lima OH --- Nearly clear light amber with a lot of blond sediment particles, a smooth off-white head cover, bands and spots of lace. Nice aroma of yeast, malt, and hay bales. Taste is sweet grassy malt with yeast and a bit of spice. All glides beautifully through the palate to a lingering grassy finish, only interrupted by just enough fizz to balance. A simple, but also exceptional, Biere de Garde.
One of the archetypical bières de garde, named after the revolutionaries of 1789, partly inspired by a beer tax dating from those days and suggested to be one of the inducements of the event. Yellowish white, regular, sticky, stable head leaving only a few ’islands’ after a while; colour a warm golden blonde with light orange hue, nicely sparkling, clear but murky after adding the deposit. Assertively fruity, bit sourish aroma of gooseberries, sparkling wine, hay, orange peel, banana, gin, apple, cloves and a bit of dusty yeast. Crisp and refreshing onset, apply with some citrus, tingling carbonation, then flowing out lightly and elegantly malty, dry thanks to the mineral-like, sharp carbonation, finishing mildly but clearly hoppy with some warm, ’jenever’-like alcohol, but not becoming astringent anywhere. To me this is more than just an initiation to its style, as is so modestly suggested above...
Bottle 75cl, a slightly cloudy golden beer with huge head and good retention. Nose is nice on grain, caramel and herbal hops. Aroma is very nice too, good malt notes, light caramel, medium sweet, herbal and earthy hops, good bitterness, light lemon notes with orange touch, very nice.