Au Maître Brasseur Bitter

Formerly brewed at AMB - Maître Brasseur
Style: Bitter
Laval, Canada

Serve in English pint

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Deep auburn pour mounted by a small creamy beige head that leaves a lasting cover. Delicate spicy and floral aromas pair along a certain mild earthiness that gently contrasts with the well extracted fruity, toasty malts. Interesting accompanying crusty breadiness seems to come from the yeast. Every ingredient plays its role and offers its best. The intricacies keep on in mouth. Joyously focused on its ingredients, mellow cerealic sugars dry out to leave growing sheets of bitterness whose diplomacy can’t be denied. Light, drinkable and refreshing offering which hits the nail straight.

Originally rated December 2006. Purchased at the Dépanneur Rapido in Aylmer, Quebec. Pours a golden-orange colour with active tiny-bubble carbonation. Nice creamy off-white head that stays a while and leaves thick lacing. The nose is mild with nuts, fruits and hop, and with a touch metallic. Watery mouthfeel with slight creaminess. Soft bitterness with caramel malt and smoked malts in the finish. Nothing too fancy, but not bad. Enjoyed the smokey flavour (even though weird for this style).

Mild caramel and somewhat sharp though light grassy hops in the nose... There’s kind of a waxy undercurrent to the aroma. Not sure what causes that. Hazy copper coloured body is topped by a decent off white head that recedes quite rapidly to a lasting cover with some lacing. Citrus is strong in the flavour but malt profile is lacking - although there’s a lot of sweet fruitiness, it’s really very dry and perhaps a bit astringent. There’s a sort of ashy flavour in the aftertaste. Medium light body is somewhat puckering and carbonation is quite strong and pointy. This one didn’t really work out for me. Tulip glass. Cellar temperature. Bottle (Le Gobelet, Jan-08).

bouteille brune de 341ml. bière de couleur ambrée foncée presque brune, mousse épaisse et durable, odeur de levure, un peu de houblon, corps moyen, goût de levure, amertume moyenne, finale sèche. rarement une bière avec aussi peu d’alcool a autant de goût.

On tap at the brewpub. Dark amber color and a big white head. Tasted caramel and kinda hoppy. Agrumes and spice. Bitter aftertaste. A good one, would have it again.

Bottle 341 ml
Appearance :Amber tea like with large thick creamy top. Fragmental lace shown.4-
Nose : Sweet cookie dough with aromatic aroma fruit aroma , hop hints floating at sides.
Flavour/Palate : slight harsh carbonation disrupts theme . Gently bitter had to fight its way trough. Late bitter woody theme shown. Surely on right path but plenty of road to make.

Bottle explose when i open it.... Aroma:Fruity hops and chemical nose... Appearance:Light hazy amber,mega huge head... Flavor:Good bitterness,light fruit flavor,light caramel...

Bouteille. De couleur cuivrée ambrée et voilée. Nez de houblon herbeux médicinal et légèrement terreux, de levures épicées (poivre) et légèrement fruité (léger d’agrumes et de mangue), léger de malt du genre caramel toffee terreux et avec des notes de noix et de fumée de tabac. Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture crémeuse et légèrement huileuse. Goût moyennement amer de houblon terreux et légèrement herbeux (qui dure toute la gorgée) avec un goût de levures fruitées (agrumes plutôt amères, notes de poires et de mangues) auquel se rajoute un goût malté de caramel terreux, moyennement rôti (notes de bois brûlé et de pain rôti) et sucré accompagné de fumée de tabac et de notes de soufre puis en finale, on assiste à un regain d’amertume de houblon terreux et plus herbeux avec un léger goût asséchant de noix rôties et de levures épicées (léger de poivre). Post-goût moyen-long et un peu sec, amer de houblon terreux et herbeux avec un goût de fumée de tabac et de noix ainsi que des notes de levures et fruitées (zest d’agrumes).

Pours a amber orange color with a white fluffy head. Aroma is malty, spicy, and slightly bitter. Flavor is lightly malty with a slightly bitter spicy finish.

Hitchiker from a trade with Boutip. Pours a lot of off-white foam on a light orange base. Besides some creaminess in head, body is below average. More bitter than malty, quaffable with orange citrus, Ok once but below average for style. Numb tongue finish.

UPDATED: AUG 20, 2007 [509B-20070811] Tap @ Saint-Bock (Montréal, QC). Very nice sweet sugary fruit plum aroma with a hint of fig and apple malt. Hazy, brown amber body with a long-lasting creamy grey head. Hoppy flavour has light lemon fruit citrus background with some grass and bitterness. Medium body. Enjoyable. [8/4/7/3/13] 3.5

[212-20070224] 341mL. Citrus yeast and fresh fruity grass aroma. Cloudy, brown orange body with a long-lasting big foamy light tan head. Tastes strongly suggests it was filtered through an ashtray, otherwise funky earthy citrus notes. Medium body, a hint of dry bitterness. Strange combination. [7/3/4/3/11] 2.8