Les Trois Mousquetaires La Folle du Roi

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

I usualy don’t like Hemp beers. This one really pleased me. Nicely bitter with a smokey and caramel taste to it.

Belle bière dont la mousse blanc crème demeure tout au long de la dégustation. Ah! La folle du roi! Douce folie. TRès pétillante en bouche et aussi de bel note timide mais perceptible de caramel brûlé. Bel équilibre

En bouteille. De couleur oscillant entre le rouge et le brun, plutôt transparente. Col assez discret. Arôme caramélisée. Goûte un mélange de malt, de terre, de fruits et d’épices. Très étonnante.

This is better than I expected. Good colour, not much of a nose, decent lacing, though not too thick on the glass. I like the roastiness of this beer. Matly, almost peaty on the tongue. Mild finish. I was surprised. I wouldn’t rush out to buy it, but if it is foisted in your hand, don’t be afraid!

Bottle: Clouded cola color with a small but lasting cap that laces the glass well. nice spicey-herbal-burnt treacle aroma. Prickley mouth feel that turns slick. Medium body. Flavor is spicey-herbal medicinal up front then this totally collapses mid gulp as some wonderful sorghum and cinnamon toast malts flood the palate. Finish starts to go bitter with medicial herbs overpowering the sweet bready malts....extremely drinkable! This is a very good hemp beer. We usually see hemp added to sharper, lighter ale recipies but this mellow, bready, sweet, almost lager-like red ale, with the hemp adding spice and bittering, makes for a great drinking specialty beer. I got turned onto hemp beers 2 summers ago and I have to say this is the best one I’ve tasted so far where all the ingredients just meld into a wonderful flavor profile that simply works well. I want more!!

341ml brown bottle. Ruby brown pour, small slight off white head. Big nutty, malty aroma with trace of caramel/sweetness. Medium body, dark malt flavours. Roasted malt and hops provide a bit of late bitterness.

Nice opaque colour. Thick foamy head. Very malty taste and a pleasant aroma.

Thanks to EyeDrinkAle for sending this brew my way a few months ago.

This is quite nice! Pours a rather mysterious mahogany colored body with a HUGE tan head; leaving lacing after every sip from start to finish. That aroma is extremely malty! Heavily roasted amber malts…. loads of toffee and some molasses. Very much like toasted honey nut wheat bread. Big notes of spruce chips and some cedar mulch… reminds me of a cigar! This is a rather tasty Amber Ale… kind of reminds me of an Irish Amber style with all the tabacco spiciness. I like it! I’d drink this again…. Although it’s highly likely that I never will have that opportunity. I bet draft would be pretty nice!