 MartinT (4241), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 3, 2008 Updated: Jun 11, 2008
My Bottom Line:
Beautifully floral and spicy hoppiness suffuse the wealthy cereals of this delightful, perfumy Belgian-style Strong Ale.
Further Personal Perceptions:
-A thick layer of foam covers the misty gold.
-A little alcohol heat is felt in the back.
-The crystallised flower petal notes are mesmerizing.
-Carbonation is prickly, perhaps not cozy enough to properly emulate authentic examples of the style.
-You can imagine coriander seeds in the nose.
-The finish is full of herbal, floral hop bitterness.
On tap at the brewpub a few times now.
DougShoemaker (2553), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 8, 2008 On tap @ Mondial 2008.
Aroma has some fine malt, with a nice fruit insurgence. cloudy apricot, almost no head. Flavour begins with a big hit of that fine malt, then some juicy red plums, peaches and apricots. Medium bodied, well balanced, sour/sweet and dry. Great!
jerc (3050), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jun 4, 2008 2008-05-31. Orangey dark amber body with a tiny beige ring of head. (3+) Interesting fruit aroma, sweet citrus and fruit that I want to call lychee but I don’t think that’s quite right, mild hops. (7+) Flavour has a similar fruit character over top a slightly sweet malt base finishing lightly tart and bitter. smooth average to medium palate. (3+) Pretty nice actually, different. On tap, Mondial, Montreal, 4T
beerbuzzmontreal (2673), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dec 31, 2007 Pours a cloudy golden color with a thin white head. The cereals are very proheminent in the aroma, especially the rye and a pleasant biscuity maltyness, there’s also hops, yeast and citrus in the aroma. The flavor has a pleasant blend of rye, biscuity malt, citrus, hops with a mild bitter finish. Although good, the flavor doesn’t have the strong cereal presence that you find in the nose, there’s also some sweetness I could have done without. The body has a light to medium thickness with an oily texture and moderate carbonation.
red éric (1376), montréal, Quebec, Canada
Dec 18, 2007 Amber-orangeish color, with a small white head, and laving laces, yeasty, fruity nose, with a hint of sweet malty, rye graininess, with a nice aromatic floral hop, cloverleaf mintiness, with some pineapple, mango, peach, fruity accents, within a spicy coriander, tangerine peel aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity, peachy character, with a bready dough, rye maltiness accent, with a good flowery hop citrusy, peppery, also it reminds me some piney and cedary and coniferous notes, with a hint of spicy coriander, within a mango, peachy, orange fruitiness, leading towards a fruity, dry, minty cedary, hop bitterness finish.
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