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

500 ml bottle courtesy of Goldorak (May 2006), consumed from a Chouffe tulip at cellar temperature. The pour is gorgeous, a supple dark tan creamy-puffy head topping the translucent ruby-brick body, leaving thick gouts of lacing as it slowly decays.....awesomely evocative aroma of raisins and molasses, Scotch whisky, caramel, port, stunningly deep maltiness, so rich and decadent that you can’t bear to stop long enough to sip; caky best-quality chocolate brownies provide more hedonism than should be allowed....and when you finally do take the plunge, you are greeted by a palette of flavors and sensations just as strong and complex: deep sweet/burnt caramel, toasted oak chips, awesomely smooth, aged whisky-vanilla sweetness with faint hints of hoppy bitterness surrounding it all, and light alcoholic burning giving it a lovely warming, invigorating effect....sour cherries appear briefly late in the velvety soft, chewy rich miasma of liqueurish aftertaste.....if I have any problem, it is only that the burnt/charred qualities are a might too strong at the finish, causing a touch of harshness, and as Stephen mentioned, it could use a bit more smokiness (though there is a touch). Transcendent masterpiece, my new standard-bearer for the style (sorry JP Grays) and the beer to beat for 2006.

Thanks a million for sharing this beer Jason Rawles! The beer pours to a deep red/garnet body with a creamy tan head. The aroma is simply unreal! Super concentrated caramelized malt, peaty, smoky, sweet dark chocolate, strawberry seeds. The flavor is something else too. Sweet, smoky, chocolate malt. So very complex that words don’t do this beer justice. Sugary sweet. Unfreaking real. Perfect creamy, really full bodied, lingering palate.

This beer has a very nice color and smell, but the first sip gives a mouthfull of flavours! I’m pretty difficult with beers but this one is a keeper. I have the chance to live right next this Microbrewery and with time and patience I keep my "corne de brume" and let it age a year before I drink it... well parts of it! This beer ages incredebly well!

Big thanks to beerbuzzmontreal for sending this to me. The aroma is of wort, brown sugar, light hops, and mollasses. Deep brown body with red hues and a nice thick brown head. Ful and extrememly creamy mouthfeel. Lots of toffee, caramel, and gentle hop flavors. Very complex taste. A nice roasted flavor comes through as it warms a bit. This one is to be savored.

Bottle from Secret Santa (beerbuzzmontreal), split with boboski. Poured a dark brown-red color with a thick tan head that lingers. The aroma is so unique that I’m almost wondering if I got a weird bottle. The aroma an intense boggy peat odor. I don’t mean peated malt, I mean wet hunks of peat. It reminded me of a wet kelp/seaweed odor, but in a pleasant way, because there were honey and smoke odors assisting. The mouthfeel was silky and the carbonation is low. The earthiness translates into the flavor, but malt dominates and a smokiness is present also. More please.

Aroma of ripe figs, and dates, brown sugar, bready malt, alcohol, and a touch of port. Flavor is sweet, but also savory. Nice notes of smoke, and ripe fruit, with some sweet malt in the finish. awesome stuff.

From a bottle kindly shared by Jason. Dark brown body, big fluffy head tan head. Big melanoidins in the aroma - stretchy caramel, milk chocolate, and cherry-like wood smokiness. Fantastic soft caramel and chocolate flavor with wood smoke and light bitter hops in back. This is one of those rare beers where the flavors are all wonderfully blended together into a single cohesive (yet complex) unit. Soft, velvety mouthfeel.

Bottle... This beer rocks!... Clear, very dark crimson ale with a mid-sized, creamy, beige head. Great retention. The aroma is a sticky-sweet, malty swirl of brown sugar, caramel, dates, light molasses and medium sherry esters. The flavor is sweet and malty. Like the nose there are heaps of gooey caramel, medium sherry and very light smoke with moderate bitterness that actually accentuates the malt by allowing it to thrive, but not fester. Not at all cloying. Whispers of dried plum and light molasses. Ultra full-bodied and syrupy with medium carbonation. Caramel-sweet, cocoa powder-bitter finish. A big SHOUT goes out to beerbuzzmontreal for providing the bottle of this world class Scotch ale!