Les Trois Mousquetaires Marché Joannette Rauchweizen

Formerly brewed at Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Smoked
Brossard, Canada

Shared by sliffy. Buttery bacon and light malt in the aroma. Light golden brown color with a light head. Medium palate. Very faint flavor here, some butter and very, very faint hints of smoke--but it tastes more like a brown ale to me than a smoked.

750 ml bottle. Cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma is smoke and malt. Flavor is sweeter than expected, with just enough smoke flavor to be tasty, but still very drinkable.

Bottle thanks to my festivus master: Pours a hazy amber golden color with an off white head. Aroma, smoky, light fruits, wheats, and spices. Flavor, light smoke and bacon notes, wheat and some fruits.

The Welcome beer at our quarterly gathering. Greatly sessionable and one of the most drinkable smoked beers I have had. A moderate smoke and medium mouthfeel. Small crown head on a slight brownish yellow, good lacing.

hazy yellow , with some decent white head, nose has some smoke i found it to have a very wheaty nose also yeast. flavor is mild smokiness and definate hefe refreshing, nice session beer.

750mL bottle shared by Rastacouere on 9/30/07
No head/lacing, for the most part. A thin white layer of foam is coaxed initially, but dosent last. The liquid is a cloudy straw-golden, with sparse, large bubbles in the liquid.
Soft bubble gum is matched to vanilla and pleasant, muted sugars (honey, light cookie dough, bits of caramel) keep things very smooth. The rauch part is definitely subtle here, with more of a medicinal/smoky phenolic character on the finish, than an actual heavy, salty/meaty smokiness. That’s fine in my book, subtle is good too. Something of a spicy ending as well, with definite grassy/dusty hops (saaz?) and more of the smoke phenols giving a little zip. The cloudiness and obvious yeast and wheat in solution definitely mute the aroma, as expected, but there are no flaws, and what does come through is represented excellently.
Very smooth, chewy, comforting texture washes soft wheat and barley grains across the palate, depositing vanilla and honey sugars that are balanced by a surprisingly flavorful (though minimal) hoppiness. Spicy herbs and dry grass give way to light campfire smoke and almost a sweet mix of ester and phenol (smokiness meets vanilla meets cotton candy and bubblegum), with a touch of sticky-sweet malt. Not terribly cohesive, the huge amount of protein/yeast in solution and lower carbonation helping see to that, but all the individual flavors are interesting/enjoyable. Finishes wet and slick, with moderate wateriness. No alcohol or flaws noted. Maybe this needs to rest warm in the bottle and develop more carbonation. Would like to try it with more of the solute dropped out too.

[618-20070914] 750mL (w/ blankboy, jerc, tupalev). Smoky bandaid and malty beer aroma. Hazy, brown orange body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Mild smoky wheat flavour has a sweet finish. Medium body. Smouldering, but not lighting any fires for me.

Bottle shared with mds, HogTownHarry, blankboy and tupalev - mds’s bottle. Slightly hazy orange-amber with a small head. Interesting aroma - a combo of meaty smoke and typical weizen notes. Soft mouthfeel. Flavour of a mild weizen with mellow smoke, and slightly sour/tart in the finish. Not bad at all.