À l’Abri de la Tempête Corne de Brume

Brewed by À l’Abri de la Tempête
Style: Scotch Ale
L’Étang du Nord, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Canada

50 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a creamy, tan and dense head. Dry and mild spiced to vague butterscotch aroma. Sweet malty, light roasted and subdued oxidised and mild fruity flavoured. Light breadish and sweet caramel malty. Lasting sweet and caramel malty finish. Nice one.

Bonne scotch ale, brune avec reflets rougeatres, notes de caramel et de sel. Bonne mais pas exceptionnelle, over-rater et ben trop chere. Good scotch ale, brown color with reddish-like highlights, taste of caramel and salt. Good but definetely not exceptionnal, totally over-rated and way to priced.

Rerate: 3-18-09.
Pours reddish brown, medium khaki head. Aroma - peanut butter, malt, rubber, perhaps caramel, and the most curious whiff of strawberry jam finds its way in as well. Well carbonated, full body. Wow, this unexpected strawberry jam impression comes through very strong in the flavor amid the more traditional caramelly malt flavors. I didn’t pick this out the first time trying this beer, but this is incredibly unique, and quite a delight. Builds on a base of earthy underbrushy bitterness, almost hoppy. Aftertaste of pumpernickel or rye or some such. This bottle is performing significantly better than the previous one. Overall, well made, enjoyable, gives me a new look on the style. I personally enjoy Founders Backwoods Bastard more, though that’s quite a different take.
8 4 8 4 16, 4.0

Orig. rating: 12-11-08.
Pours clear nut brown, light head. Bottled Nov 2007. Nutty aroma. Flavor - peanut butter?? warming, bitter. slightly oily. Good.
7 3 7 3 15, 3.5

Simply amazing and outstanding. 6.29 for 341 ml is quite expensive for a Québec-made beer bought in Montreal... When it is as good as this, who could care about the price... Exquisite aroma, not as dark as most scotch ales. Barely a trace of alchool in the taste with a lot of subtilities and complexity in the warmth of this divine brew. Sweetness, caramel-like and a discreet bitterness. Keep up with your excellent work, Biere des iles. I love you, Madelinots. Added: Guilty as charged, though; I over-rated that one. A quite too watery texture and, ’though pretty well balanced, nothing is oustanding in the taste.

Tres belle couleur orange foncé à tête dorée. Exellent mariage entre le caramel et le bitter. Probablement la meilleur Scotch ale brassé au Canada(avec la McAuslan).

12 oz. bottle - thanks a bunch biegman for making the extra effort for this; pours rich brown with thin white head; mostly clear with considerable lacing going down; aromas of sweet caramel, but almost a little like ethanol too; very thin body and a little sweet; improved a little, but this was kind of an odd one overall

This is simply the best beer i have ever drinked.... a pefect mix between a prestine scotch ale with slight caramel taste and a very bitter beer ( about 60 IBU ).This beer takes 6 months to ferment so it can only distribute soo much wich explains somewhat the cost of this golden-reddish delight. A must for beer lovers !!

The notorious "new" batch. Cold clean red. Chocolate soda fountain, root beer candy, wet earth, alcohol aroma. Raspberries in vanilla. Sugary, damp, and distantly salty. Salted rye bread. Raw.

Coarse wooden chocolate flavor. Not rich and bold like an earthy, semisweet, mostly real cocoa chocolate, but dry and sugary like an extract syrup. The fruit character is bitter and tannic, like the skin of a plum or a dried date. Smooth, velvety almond sweetness in a rich and sharp spirit-like texture, with plenty of mapley woodiness. Still unpolished. No subtlety in the delivery.

Medium-full palate is softly carbonated and surprisingly not sticky. Tinny mineral bitterness precedes a lasting, dry rubbing of alcohol and caramelized almonds in the finish. Rather frustrating. Its redeeming qualities are ever present, but suffocated, and what might be most annoying is that there isn’t some obvious flaw lending the weight. It just never quite arrives. Dany was right. Thanks man!