À La Fût St-Rodéo

Brewed by À La Fût
Style: American Pale Ale
St-Tite, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Pours a clear golden color with a thin white head. Aroma and flavor of citrusy hops and malt with a bitter finish. The body is medium with a creamy texture and lively carbonation.

341 ml bottle. Pours a foggy straw with a white head. Not all that tasty, a bit of herbal bitterness in the finish. Resinous mouthfeel. Nothing extraordinary.

Cuvée houblonnée IV (Embouteillée fév. 2012-Lot 2) Bière blonde coiffée d’un col de mousse crémeux laissant une dentelle classique aux parois du verre. Des arômes d’agrumes, de malt, avec des élans d’air frais, d’ozone, légèrement gazéifiés. Goût, encore là, légèrement amer et résineux. Une amertume qui reste en arrière-goût. Selon moi, c’est la plus ordinaire des Cuvées Houblonnées. Tout est faible, sans que ce soit négatif. Elle ne possède pas de grandes qualités, bien qu’elle soit satisfaisante. (208-270312)

Style et résumé: American Pale Ale sous le nom de Cuvée houblonnée IV (29 IBU).
Comment: Bouteille de 341ml. gracieuseté de Patrick.
Description: Bière dorée blonde avec un anneau de mousse blanche. Le nez est houblonné, il y a beaucoup de miel. Il y a aussi beaucoup d’herbe aussi. La bouche est ferme, herbeuse, asséchante pour le palais. De moyenne longueur.
Note: 5+/10

(En fût au Saint-Bock. Sur le tableau : St-Rod, Cuvée Houblonnée IV) Une robe passablement orangée et voilée. Un chétif anneau de mousse. Un nez peu expressif qui est touché par des houblons verts (du thé?) et par des notes qui peuvent rappeler, avec imagination, les citrons. Un malt biscuité. Des saveurs amères. Des houblons qui perdent des saveurs florales et fruitées. Un mouvement des malts qui n’est pas imposant. En bouche, un corps qui propose une densité moyenne avec un pétillement modéré et une texture huileuse. Une finale qui exprime une amertume et une certaine astringence: la combine des herbes amères avec du thé et des agrumes?

Sapiné, citronné avec une présence malté très secondaire pour une pale ale. Une amertume moyennement rigide sur un corps assez croustillant. Excellent buvabilité.

On tap at Loup Rouge.The color is amber with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet and hoppy. The taste is of hops and citrus fruits but not much bitterness for an I.P.A.
Earlier Rating: 2/4/2008 Total Score: 3
On tap at Vices et Versa. The color is golden with hardly any head. The taste and aroma are of hops.It has some bitterness.This is just an average A.P.A.

Draught. Mondiale 2009 - day 3. Hazy orange with a large frothy off-white pour - normally that gets a 4/5 for appearance, but this one just didn’t look all that appealing, somehow. Not much aroma to it at all - light grass, mild pin sap, not much malt at all. Taste - eh - dull, there’s the grain, but crap, it’s harsh, and what bitterness there was seemed pretty generic and stale. Average body, pretty astringent considering how characterless it was, and the harshness just builds all out of proportion to it’s weak malt body and lack of distinguishing hop profile. Not too good, no.

My Bottom Line:
This balanced India Pale Ale offers as many caramelized and biscuity cereal flavors as it does earthy and citrusy hops, all in an effervescent and chewy mouthfeel.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam covers the clear amber.
-The Frontenac malts come off as very green and fruity here, which kind of clashes with the earthy hop finish.
-This new version of St-Rodéo is more interesting than the 5% version, but I can’t say the flavor profile is one I can fall in love with.
-This might be a tad too sweet for my tastes in IPAs.

On tap at Vices et Versa.
Earlier Rating: 9/30/2007 Total Score: 3.3
My Bottom Line:
Perfumy yet restrained aromatic hops introduce enough of a citrus and floral character to balance out the clean pale malt presence. Tame and geared towards drinkablity, this Pale Ale seems to sit on the fence between English and American versions of the style.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A slice of foam covers the clear honeyed gold.
-Bubbles are portly, yet the lean body and flavor profile provide a comfortable mouthfeel.
-Hop flavor is rather leafy and herbal, suggesting that there is an English touch within the announced American hop bill.
-This Pale Ale won’t have you do a double-take because of its originality or flavor extroversion. It’s a straightforward, docile example made for long evenings.
-A newer batch was cleaner and slightly more expressive, the hoppiness being clearer and more seductive.
-The Frontenac malt presence is very strong, to the point of being bothersome if you don’t like it.

On tap a few times here and there.

UPDATED: DEC 4, 2009 On tap at délices d’automne festival. The aroma here is very floral hops, wild flowers, pollen that sort of thing very mouthwatering. Taste is good solid IPA bitterness with just that hint of caramel malt that makes the whole tasty and refreshing.

Pours a reddish amber with a thick and lasting foamy white head. Nice fresh hops aroma with hints of grapefruit, altough the intensity is a little thin. Easy drinking with a medium-light body, with a good presence of caramel malts, simple but nice bitterness, and very quaffable. I loved the carbonation on that one. A nice session pale ale.