2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
12 oz bottle. Pours a nice medium amber with a thick lasting head. Aroma is grassy herbs, earth, garbage-like actually, with some vegetal, and sharp metallic like harsh caramel malts- ech. Flavor is quite a bit worse, with more metallic coming through, grass dirt, garbage, and lots of very astringent and nasty dirty weeds. Astringent drity metallic bitterness- ech. Terrible. Couldnt finish. A rare miss from Bieropholie.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a deep ornage 7 slightly cloudy. Aroma smells like a hop flavored Iced Tea. Taste is Malt dominated with nice hop bitterness. More of an English style IMO. Pretty nice beer but i like more hops
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle purchased for $2.49 from Metro Joanette in Montreal. Pours an unexpected rich dark copper. Little head. Disappointingly weak aroma. Flavour is not disappointing however. It’s strong and rich with a good deal of warming hops. This is not a West Coast IPA in terms of its hop profile - which is somewhat too bad as I feel most of those are tastier.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle courtesy of hogtownharry. Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells of tea and earth with some grassy hints. Tastes of caramel, pepper, and has some earthy malt character. Mouthfeel is full with a metallic finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from trip to Montreal. After two Le Grimoire drainpours tonight, I needed something good to make up for it, and this was a fine choice. Dark, clear amober with a small off-white head that leaves a decent lace. Aroma and flavour are both big and well balanced, with robust caramel malt notes backing up the piney, earthy hops. Great mouthfeel as well, full without being cloying. A very solid and drinkable IPA.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
341 ml bottle from Harry!!! Nose is caramelly, piney, and bready; clear dark red with a small beige head; flavor is hop bitterness, caramel, and earthiness; finish is bitter with a fishy note deep in the backgound the whole time as if I had been eating fresh caught and fried trout (which I haven’t had since last summer)
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle, thanks to after4ever! Pours a clear reddish amber with a thin off-white head. I got distracted and didn’t keep all the notes on this one. But I do have numbers.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
330. Thanks, glouglouburp! Ruby red amber with very slim grayish film. Big woody nose. Medium body, soft carb. Woody, somewhat caramelly, resiny. Very dry and piney. Dryest IPA I’ve ever had, and easily the best dry IPA I’ve had. If there’s anything I’ve learned this weekend about Quebecois brewers, they make sure to make their beers as unique and distinct as they can while making them as well as they can make them. And they all seem to have *really* cool-looking labels.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: MAR 8, 2008 Bouteille 341 ml ipa brassée chez St-Arnould. Couleur orangée avec une mousse qui tient très bien. Arômes de citron, lime, pamplemousse et caramel. Goût de caramel doux qui se fais renverser solidement par le houblon et se termine avec une amertume tranchante très agréable qui persiste. J’aime beaucoup ce type de bière
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Orange-copper, small head, quickly falling. Nose of grapefruit, earthy hops hints of caramel, not very complex. Flavor is very bitter, lacks some balance of the malts. This is their most recent release (decembre 2007), but it feels as if it is a little oxydized. Mouthfeel is a litlle oily, the finish lacks precision. Long aftertaste, not very pleasant. Decent.
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