Another in the Belg-a-Rama series, #2, from Brasserie des Blaugies, darbysge bier. These are my notes from May, 2005, from a bottle:
This bottle of mine has a new, finely designed, violet-colored label complete with a scientific drawing of the fig fruit, leaves, plant and all. I'm intriqued. At the store, once I read "ALE brewed with fig juice", it went right into the cart.
Pours a solid orange/ peachy hue, with well-sustained off-white foam above.
Aroma is faint, dominated by yeast, pleasant but uninspiring...light fruit...
big zesty kick on first sip, huge carbonation, but flavor is still, alas, lackluster...considerable spark and zip on the palate, that it has going for it...great tang on the tongue...it's quite nice, though the fig factor is lightly played.
a tasty ale, though, no doubt about that, with an underlying citric kick, and a blast of spice...another winner from Blaugies.
And here's what I wrote for the draft beer menu:Blaugies is a great family owned and operated saison producer, and this one is from an old recipe, and fermented with figs. Named for John Darby, a temperance preacher whose parishoners favore d a "soft drink" they insisted was merely fig juice. A blend between saison and wittier, light, lemony and dry, with the figs playing a minor role in the flavor.
This is another one of those beers whose ingredients cloud preceptions of what the beer actually is.
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