Les Trois Mousquetaires Blonde

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Premium Lager
Brossard, Canada

Clear and shining yellow. Little to no apparent carbonation. Medium sized white head diminishes a bit fast. Aroma is herbal, saazy with big grainy notes. Dry palate, moderately bitter. Could be much more flavorful, lacks a biscuity and/or toasted malt punch and floral characteristics. Nothing developped yet, but there’s definitely skunk potential unfortunately and this is as fresh as can be. Hoping for better as they acquire brewing in big quantities and bottling experience.

Draught pint: This has improved lately, more pronounced Saazy hoppiness make for a drier palate while the malt remains a little shy to my tastes, but crisp and grainy, cleaner character than before. A fine refreshing lager.

A little toastiness and is broadened by a few herbal hops...The slick body delivers a slowly rising hop bitterness which has a slight drying effect after a few sips...All is quite subtle and mostly focused on the lean and crunchy cereals...Anyway you look at it, this is a clean, nondescript lager for the party-going crowds...

Gold lager with a light malt aroma with some hops. Intense saaz hops , resinous with crisp malt . Extremely fresh. A great lager! Thanks Chris!

341 ml bottle. Very clear honey-amber, still with no bubbles, respectable snow-cap head of moderate duration...honey-jasmine nose is pleasant but like others from this brewer is muted and weak...primarily sweet body is leavened from cloying by a nice dry herbal character that shows up midpalate, with the finish both sweet and lightly bitter. Slight brackish-salty quality late as well, which I actually thing is somewhat appealing. Not too shabby.

Crisp, toasty malt and spicy, herbal hops in the nose. Clear, deep golden with decent white head that recedes to cover with some minor lacing. Mild toasted malt notes with a fairly strong bitterness that lasts on the tongue. Very strong carbonation. Slightly astringent in the mouth. Nice to see a new local brewery making clean beers although this does seem like a dumbed-down version of the style intended for immediate comfort to the mass-market. Bottle.

Bottle (341ml). via trade with turg. Slightly hazy bubbly gold with a bright white foamy head, decent retention. Very dry grassy aroma with some jangly-harsh sweet toast malt, surprisingly fresh dry herbal hops though. Taste is ... not bad! Again with the pungent, dry, herbal hops, dry, grainy, a little honeyish malt - only a little tang in the longish, funky-bitter finish knocks my rating down. Mouthfeel is astringent, dry, decently carbonated - remember this isn’t a pale lager, it’s a helles - better than it’s made out to be here, imho.

Montréal Tig is right spicy (salt n pepper), malty nose with sweet sugary fruity base. Pours creamy white head, gold. Plenty of carbonation, that overwhelms malts and that green bitterness that comes with fresh green leafs. Bittering was done the wrong way , it is not smooth and sound . It is harsh , crude type . Maybe more of good chewy malt could fix the thing, maybe.

2009-06-02. Crisp yellow body with a small white head that fades. Mild aroma has very muted hops over muted pale malts, lightly grassy grainy touches. Flavour is sweet, dilute pale malts with very little bitterness. Average palate is lightly carbonated. Bottle is a bit old, it still has the old Dartagnan label on it, but it is drinkable. Pretty bland, but inoffensive. Bottle from forgotten bottle shop, Montreal