Les Trois Mousquetaires Rousse

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Vienna
Brossard, Canada

Shining clear caramel body. Mild aroma, mostly malty. Tartish vegetable crackers reminiscent caramel malt. Light diacetyl trace. Lagerish light body, medium effervescence. Tiny earthy smoke suggestion. After trying their 3 beers (for now), there’s just something not clean with the yeast which sadly imparts a little dusty feel to all their beers.

Bottle... Clear, copper lager with a small, fizzy, white head. Dark fruit, black tea, light molasses and light chocolate are blended perfectly in the nose. The flavor is full of dark fruit, black tea, toffee and orange blossom honey. Medium-bodied and oily with mild carbonation. Finishes bitter-sweet and lightly dry. Thanks goes out to Matta for sharing.

Fiery-foxy, deep copper colour with a dense, creamy, cream-coloured head that proves quite stable. Very chocolatey aroma; chocolate "truffles" with cacaopowder, bark- or rootspices, sweetish, toffee. Bitter first impression with background toffee and roasted chocolate again. Some amber/roasted malts obvious. Very carbonated MF, rather light body, some slickness. Watery finish. I like the onset of this beer very much - a more-bitter-than-usual Vienna. Unfortunately, the bitterness fades quickly away, revealing more and more the inherent emptiness. Still - not bad. <i> Thanks for the collecting job, I&I </i>

Rating for the new Rousse version: A generous toastiness in the nose is joined by round caramel once tasted, a maltiness balanced out by earthy hoppiness and its decent bitterness. The end result is able-bodied, drinkable and quite flavorful for what is supposed to be their mass marketed "Rousse" offering. Should give Boréale Rousse a fun for its money in the party-going crowd, if proper marketing is done.

Tap at Vices et Versa. Deep amber beer, thick head. Aroma is heavily caramelized with a bit of brown sugar, burnt sugar and light treacle. It doesn’t actaully come across overly sweet but it is fairly complex. A sweet, malty fish with a light spicy hoppiness in back. Pretty nice brew really.

Light red lager with a malty diacetyl aroma. Rather plain beer (the brewer even admits it) but it is still a nice little number.

341 ml bottle. Clear reddish-orange with the faintest of white foam-caps...indistinct toffee-chocolate nose is pleasant when you can get anything...bit of sourness hits at first on the tongue, quickly fading to a caramel sweetness and light toasted malt, perhaps a hint of almonds and orange. Tol’ble.

Caramel malt aroma with some vegetable-like DMS. Clear copper coloured with very thin white fully diminishing head. Mildly sweet caramel malt flavour with gentle balancing bitterness. Very low carbonation. Watery, still mouthfeel. Bottle.