À La Fût St-Rodéo

Brewed by À La Fût
Style: American Pale Ale
St-Tite, Canada

Draught. Mondiale 2009 - day 3. Hazy orange with a large frothy off-white pour - normally that gets a 4/5 for appearance, but this one just didn’t look all that appealing, somehow. Not much aroma to it at all - light grass, mild pin sap, not much malt at all. Taste - eh - dull, there’s the grain, but crap, it’s harsh, and what bitterness there was seemed pretty generic and stale. Average body, pretty astringent considering how characterless it was, and the harshness just builds all out of proportion to it’s weak malt body and lack of distinguishing hop profile. Not too good, no.

Pours a reddish amber with a thick and lasting foamy white head. Nice fresh hops aroma with hints of grapefruit, altough the intensity is a little thin. Easy drinking with a medium-light body, with a good presence of caramel malts, simple but nice bitterness, and very quaffable. I loved the carbonation on that one. A nice session pale ale.

[2237-20090605] Tap. Alluring orange hops aroma. Slightly hazy, amber brown body with a long-lasting foamy off-white head and some lacing. Bitter orange hops flavour. Medium body, nice bitterness. Tasty and bitter, a great finish to the evening.
(@ Vices et Versa; Montreal, QC)

Tap at Vices et Versa. Amber beer with a white head. Aroma is very intense. Bright lemon peel, citrus and a heavy zesty spiciness. It’s got a touch of orangey fruit with a really prominent herbal bitterness. Sort of reminds me of the hopping that is apparent in some Rulles products. It’s okay, but not great because the bitterness comes across as quite medicinal. The aroma is great, but the beer itself doesn’t quite live up to that promise.

Appearance: Golden orange, small white head. Aroma: Nice grapefruit, hops, pineapple, malt and yeast. Flavour: Bitter hops followed by a long malt punch, citrus skins and mango.

grassy hops, solid malt, piney hops, and a medium bitter finish, good carb, decent APA

2009-06-05. Amber body with a good sized foamy white head. (3+) Surprisingly hoppy aroma, modest resiny, light grass/vegetation. Flavour is fairly bitter, modest resin. Pleasant. Average palate. Pretty decent but not particularly memorable. On tap at Vices Versa as St. Rodeo, Montreal

Garthicus: "So I was at this sex show in Amsterdam...(pause)"

A dark amber APA with a thin off white head. Pungent hops aroma, with caramel and treacle. In mouth, a classy APA with good malt base, c-hops, nutty notes and sustained roastiness. Festival Bières et Saveurs, August 29 2008.