Les Trois Mousquetaires La Folle du Roi

Formerly brewed at Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Brossard, Canada

Nice clear brown to burgundy pour. Long-lasting 1cm sticky white head. Good-looking. It requires quite a sniff to get those woody (branches, foresty candle type) hints up the nostrils. I wouldn’t have named hemp, but there’s a good suggestion of this herbal (moderately bitter, leafy) flavor I can’t put a name on. Lightly acidic, overall dry. The trace of some fruit hiding. Light palate, rather high carbonation. Not much going on: a poorman’s bitter.

Earthy (hempy?) roots unearthing some sweet malt...Green hops and their bitterness garnish the last half of this curvaceous quencher...Fruity connotations amongst the earthiness are nabbed by a light metallic touch...Well-done for its purposes, this one is going to get the average micro crowd as Boréale and the like...

Smells similar to Rogue American Amber was my first impression, but then I started noticing some bad burlap smells or something: rough, young malts with a cardboard or leather smell, odd and not that pleasing. Body seems full up front but then drops off quickly. Tastes like some hay, yarn, whatever... dull flavor and unexciting. Me thinks this is a gimmick.

Red copper ale with light hoppy aroma. Nutty flavour with lactic notes. Rather like a brown ale. Very good, with a good body.

341 ml bottle. Dark amber-to-bronze, tiny lasting fizzy head...brown sugar and sweet herbs in the nose...body is surprisingly bitter, somewhat sulforous and redolent of burnt & smoked malts, quite dry throughout and bitter/sour to finish. There’s a brackish, saltwater quality in here that somehow works because of the fairly strong malt underlying, but it’s an oddity that I won’t drink often..

Herbal aroma is somewhat spicy with a light underlying fruitiness. Tarnished copper coloured body with generous white head that lasts nicely and recedes with some lacing. Initial herbal flavour with a decent bitterness - the toasted malts come pleasantly to centre-stage in the finish. Light body with good carbonation. Very refreshing. Bottle.

Bottle (341ml). Via trade with turg. Poured slightly hazy orange-amber with a tiny white head. Some caramel malt in the aroma, oddly and funkily spiced, slightly yeasty, a hint of wee heavy dry petrol. Taste - OMG, there’s the wee heavy - dry, oily malt, funky spice - fairly long finish for a mostly-malt brew. Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, dry and a little watery - but I like the wee heavy style, so intentional or not, thumbs up. Thanks, turg!

Malty aroma with light hints of grapes mixed with typical for Belgian Ales spices. Well carbonated m, bitter at front, chewier behind. Dry finish. Thanks to nice bitternig this medium light dry brew can be enjoyed .