22/06/08 500ml Fraîche Brune foncée aux reflets acajou orangés, col moyen. Arômes de grains mouillés légèrement rôtis, bonbon. Corps moyen, effervescence faible. Saveurs sucrées de pommes artificielles, caramel sucré et sucre d’orge...pas mal sucrée!! Plutôt du jus sucré que de la bière.

<i>Bottle.</i> Third beer of my ’St. Patrick’s Day Stouts & Porters Mini-Tasting’. Yeah, I know it’s labeled a ’Fruit Beer’ but it is supposed to be a Stout with apples so it counts. Stout with <i>apples</i>...weird. Pours a dark ruby-brown with a spare fast diminishing tan head. We’re not off to a good start, I like my Stouts to at least have a decent head. Aroma of roasted malt and apple juice which, unfortunately, is not an awesome combination. Flavour: Ugh, it’s worse. Like an apple cider gone bad. Or a cheap cider mixed 70% to a cheap Stout’s 30%. I keep trying it but I’m not liking it more. Marks for trying something new but not something I’d get again.

Bottle from Métro Joannette, Montreal. Dark ruby-brown with a very thin tan head. Aroma of dark roasted malt and fresh apple juice. Thin body, very carbonated. Flavour is essentially that of a mediocre stout mixed with a decent cider. Oddly, I kind of liked it at first, but halfway through, the flavours started to seriously clash, and down the drain in went. Weird stuff.

A dark reddish brown ale with a thin moka head. Aroma of musty dust, tobacco and apples. In mouth, an overly sweet stout, like mixing a Guinness with apple juice, sourish notes, leaving an unpleasant aftertaste. Overall, a bad idea. Bought at Joanette, 1.89$

bouteille brune de 341ml. bière de belle couleur rouge-noire, la mousse est très mince et fugace, au nez on perçoit immédiatement les odeurs caractéristiques aigres et surettes des pommes. en bouche c’est la même chose la bière est surette, comme des pommes rouges qui ne seraient pas mures. pas assez pommadée à mon goût.