3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Aroma:mint,herbs and spices....
Appearance:Orange with a good head......
Flavor:Herbs and spices,light caramel....
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Robe orangée, mousse fugace. Menthe poivrée, baie de genièvre, mielleuse. Malt caramel... Bel équilibre.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Cloudy golden pour with a thin white head. Appealing, intriguing and interesting aroma of peppermint, juniper and rye. Very good flavor of peppermint, rye, juniper and buttery caramel, the finish is bitter. Light body, moderate carbonation. This beer is very interesting, it has some complexity and is very well balanced, no element dominates the others. I also like the fact that with every sip I could find new elements, this beer is very well made.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: AUG 18, 2007 (Initial rating from a couple batches when the brewer used to work at Le Bilboquet in Ste-Hyacinthe):
After having stepped in rich caramel, a caterpillar, still digesting a celeri stick, retreats into its mint leaf and green salad cocoon...It later flies away, graceful, to a fruity, peachy and creamy afterlife...An original, smooth evangel of passion very much in the Fantôme lineage...4/5
(New rating, from the first batch brewed at Bedondaine):
Pillowy soft mouthfeel and flavor equilibrium engage the tongue and mind...Mint leaves float gently on the suave malt and yeasty ground...Alcohol is so well-hidden, this one feels like its half its size; a feeling helped by the 10% rye malt used, which encourages the next gulp...Overall, maybe better balanced than the one’s I had had at the Bilboquet, but less perfumy, less sweet, and sooo easy to drink...Another unique creation from Nicolas "Bedondaine" Bourgault, without any gambrinal lineage other than his imaginative self...3.7/5
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