Buttery white-headed straw-bodied French golden ale retains musty malt pungency countering corn-sugared challah breading and honeyed yeast sweetness. Gentle barley bottom reinforces peppery hop fizzle, but spiced fruitiness is lost.
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ST. DRUON DE SEBOURG FRENCH ABBEY ALE
White wine aromatics spur initial hop-spiced orange peel bittering, ensuing lemony grapefruit tang, and soured cider residual of obliging golden-hazed Belgian-styled pale ale (previously known as Sebourg French Wheat). Buttered corn sweetness drapes green apple tartness before bright tangerine-cherry-berry sheen lingers to soft-watered candi-sugared honeydew finish.