Les Trois Mousquetaires S.S. Rauchbier

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: Smoked
Brossard, Canada

750 in Schlenkerla glass. Slightly different label than shown. Dark brown with lasting dense head and lace. Smoky grassy caramel aroma. Rich smoky grassy caramel with lingering toasty caramel. Soft creamy mouthfeel and fine carbo. If I brewed a beer, I would hope it to be like this. Awesome. Just shy of Schlenkerla itself.

Looks great. Very dark almost black, tall beige head, great lacing. Amazing aroma, coffee, jerky, chocolate, and tobacco assault the nose. Flavour is just as complex. Very smokey with notes of meat, coffee, chocolate, and tobacco. The palate goes of forever. Very flavourful. Well balanced, smokey but not over the top. and very dry almost salty.

A wonderful rauchbier and a great new discovery. Pours a gorgeous black colour, with a little gold flashing at the edges. Soft toffe-colored head, with better than average lacing. A hung-venison smokiness dominates, with a beautiful choco-coffee character following closely behind. A slight soya sauce aroma can also be found. Palate is less smoky than other rauchbiers I have had, with wild game jerky, bitter chocolate, and mushroom soy sauce runnning over a silken palate. Finish is salty, but not unpleasantly so, and offsets the sweetness of this beer wonderfully. This will find its way into my shopping basket again!

Pours almost black with caramel coloured accents. Caramel coloured head with nice lacing. Aroma is very smokey (yea I know what a surprise!). Coffee, chocolate, oat, musty basement, soft fruit, jerky and salt on the nose on top of smoke the whole way through. Tastes intensely smokey, chocolate and coffee, mushrooms. salt, soy, this beer changes continuously. Great mouth feel. Really really good beer, very interesting.

Généreuse mousse, un goût parfaitement et déliceusement fumé. L’odeur aussi est très bonne de ce parfum fumé. Douce, à peine un légé goût acre à la fin.

Burnt malts, barbeque, bacon, chocolate. Dark brown tan head. Ashy, smokey, bbq, a little smoked salty meat. Roasted dark malts underneath. Nice roast/smoke combo in finish. Really tasty stuff.

[2334-20090726] 750mL bottle. Smoky cigarette ashes and roasted grain wood aroma. Black body with a long-lasting foamy light tan head. Roasted smoke flavour has a long lingering roasty aftertaste. Full body. Roasty and smoky and a nice blend of everything.
(c/o manuchampions, w/ him, jerc)

You can definately smell the smok in the malt, its like a clean campfire smell in a bottle. Deep and dark, great head, retains lacing throughout the durationg of the glass. There is great malt flavour but it is quickly overshadowed by the imense thickness that the smoke as added or brought out. Its quite a strong flavour, but seems to dull mid palate before a strong aftertaste of the bubbles and smoke. Quite nice, but the smoke in the malt is a bit too peaky before the dull midlle taste, I think some more hops would fit in nicely if they could find a good match.