Anyone fancy a beer – something different?

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artisan, Beer, brasserie, brewery, chestnut, France, La Croix du Rat, Mike Brookes, real ale, Sunday Beer

For the purists beer with the addition of chestnuts might seem odd, but this beer surprised me. I would not have bought it by choice, but wanted to taste the whole range from Le Croix du Rat. Surprisingly, it has a nice hoppy flavour, but I was not getting chestnut at all. Would go well with fish and chips or a pork pie (paté en crout).

The female view aka Jean was that it had a pleasant after taste of chestnut, but again would have not known it contained chestnut.  The label is a give away! She imagined herself somewhere in an English pub with a Ploughman’s in an English pub – (a good English cheese, pickle, chunk of bread, butter and some salad).

We both like the plea on the label of all the beers from La Croix de Rat to recycle the bottles by taking them back to the brasserie!

Cleaning out the chickens …….

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Beer, chickens, France, La Croix du Rat, real ale, Sunday Beer

Cleaning out the chickens is not our favourite pastime on a Sunday morning, so today it was well rewarded with another beer from La Croix du Rat. This time we chose the Ambrée, something of the colour of the eggs which our lovely Maran chickens lay, so it seemed appropriate.

So what did we think?

I found it a significantly darker beer and delicious. Jean described it as fizzy and with a big head, but a beer drinker just can’t call beer ‘fizzy’.  This beer is definitely not fizzy and she have a lot more to drink yet to improve my beer vocabulary. So the assessment  is that it is a very round beer, well balanced and even at 6% is not too sweet. A good beer.