Bierbrier Premium Ale

Brewed by Bierbrier Brewing Inc.
Style: Cream Ale
Montreal, Canada

Bouteille 341 ml. De couleur dorée surmontée d’une mince mousse blanche. Arôme malté, et légèrement sucré et un peu de houblon. Saveur très maltée, bien ronde. Une bonne petite cream ale.

Bouteille, sans dates. Bon arome de houblon et malt. Couleur ambrée entre l’or et le cuivre. La mousse s’estompe vite... Bien effervescente, l’équilibre est parfait entre l’amertume et le malt. Excellente !

Bottle courtesy of Viper666. Pours a hazy golden-orange with an average size diminishing off-white head. Aroma of grain, light hops and sweet malt. Flavour of sweet caramel malt, grain, mild hops and a little fruit -- a tad watery but still O.K. Medium bodied. Pretty decent, especially for a "Cream Ale" from Quebec, I’d drink it again.

2006 bottle drunk on 1/18/07. A bit of age on it, I believe about 5 months, however, it has been kept in an extremely cold fridge the entire time.
With opening (while still quite cold), it proves to be a gusher. Haha, not good….A glassy, very clear peach-bronze body sports a white head that is initially bolstered by the increased amount of infection-driven carbonation. But as soon as a majority of the carbonation fizzles, the head quickly fades to cover/ring, leaving no lacing.
Aroma confirms there is something wrong. Sourish notes and wet socks are quite apparent, dominating the biscuity grains that lie behind. Not a rancid or horrible infection, and actually the more it breathes, it actually seems to lessen significantly. You can at least still get a sense of the beer behind it. Light fruity and mildly hopped, dry, with no real flaws. Really nice fresh grainy, almost biscuity malt character. Medium strength to the aroma, with no alcohol apparent.
The flavor is impacted quite severely by the infection as well. Spoiled milk is lightly noted, along with a sourish corn-like flavor. Again, however, it seems to disappear, and quite quickly, with breathing (though not completely). I ended up actually taking a few more mouthfulls and enjoying the pale, grainy, only marginally sweet maltiness. No adjunct flavor or major flaws. Some light fruitiness (peaches, apples) at most, no doubt just from the ale yeast. Even a mild, saaz-like hoppiness that is subtle but still nicely done. Fizzy, forced carbonation could use some work, as it gives a little wateriness to the texture, but overall, it seems this is quite a well-brewed beer....if it werent for the infection. I’ll certainly get another bottle and see if it was just a freak occurrence.

Bottle. Orange amber body, good sized off white head fades. Moderate hoppy aroma, light notes of resin, fruit - light hints of peaches. Moderate bitterness in the flavour, light hoppy resin, moderate biscuity malt. This is a fairly pleasant but restrained brew. Hops are a bit more restrained than some other reviews, but its definitely a pale ale rather than a cream ale.

341 mL bottle from Montreal, shared with brothers. App.: med. golden, clear and no head. Aroma: yeasty, biscuity, malty, a touch of fruit and a little hops in the background. Palate: surprisingly full-bodied, med.-low carbonation. Flav.: peach and apricot, biscuity, a nice hoppy finish (pine and grapefruit), very mildly bitter finish.

(Bottle) Courtesy of Lubiere. Pours a medium, white frothy head with a orange amber body. Nose of pine hops. Flavour is surprisingly IPA... a cream ale? Really? Not bad. Nice balance between the hoppiness and a cream malt.

Bottle (341ml). Clear gold with a solid lasting foamy off-white head. Soft, lactic aroma - light pine/herbal hops, grain backbone - nice, but a little too bland. Taste - oh, my, that’s nice - very grainy, I don’t get any corn or extraneous junk, just malted grain and soft herbal hops, very good. Very chewy body, light astringency, decent carbonation and a nice medium finish - pretty nice stuff - cream ale? I don’t see it, but I’d drink a few on the deck any day ....