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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A dark amber APA with a thin off white head. Pungent hops aroma, with caramel and treacle. In mouth, a classy APA with good malt base, c-hops, nutty notes and sustained roastiness. Festival Bières et Saveurs, August 29 2008.

Tap at Vices et Versa. Amber beer with a white head. Aroma is very intense. Bright lemon peel, citrus and a heavy zesty spiciness. It’s got a touch of orangey fruit with a really prominent herbal bitterness. Sort of reminds me of the hopping that is apparent in some Rulles products. It’s okay, but not great because the bitterness comes across as quite medicinal. The aroma is great, but the beer itself doesn’t quite live up to that promise.

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.

Clear, very sparkling golden ale topped by a lasting white cover. An excessively clean example with soft pale malt flavours that are owned by the insistant, well-put floral, fruity, leafy hop profile. Not very bitter, but confident aromas. A bit too easy and too carbonated for me to want to drink a whole pint, but remarkably well constructed and clean for such a young brewery.

2009-06-05. Amber body with a good sized foamy white head. (3+) Surprisingly hoppy aroma, modest resiny, light grass/vegetation. Flavour is fairly bitter, modest resin. Pleasant. Average palate. Pretty decent but not particularly memorable. On tap at Vices Versa as St. Rodeo, Montreal

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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.

In short: Kind of a cross between a Bitter and American Pale Ale. Crisp and hoppy. Nice session beer.
How: Tap (pint) at Vices & Versa
The look: clear golden copper body topped by a long-lasting medium off-white head
In long: Crisp body with crisp caramel balanced by a hefty amount of hops. The hop profile is of the type “mix-bag” (dry and grassy, citrusy, floral and leafy). I’d even say that the balance is a bit towards the hops in this one, it would have profited from a heavier caramelized body. The carbonation is very lively, maybe a bit too much so. Overall a pretty nice beer that shows potential to be even greater. Ok, I’m someone who can enjoy a good rodeo but it doesn’t mean that I suddenly find my little cousin attractive.

Draught at Le Saint-Bock. Pours a clear yellow-gold with an average size diminishing white head. Mild but nice aroma and flavour of hops, grain, plenty of fruit, mild sweetness and caramel malt. Medium bodied. A good version of the style, I enjoyed it.
"Bam! I’m in your mouth!" - GregClow

[2237-20090605] Tap. Alluring orange hops aroma. Slightly hazy, amber brown body with a long-lasting foamy off-white head and some lacing. Bitter orange hops flavour. Medium body, nice bitterness. Tasty and bitter, a great finish to the evening.
(@ Vices et Versa; Montreal, QC)

En fût. Verre de dégustation à la brasserie. Arôme: Légère odeur d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est blonde légèrement cuivrée avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’houblons avec une pointe de malt. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Légère présence d’houblons en arrière goût. (Rating #1274)