Boquébière Hildegard Rouge des Cantons

Brewed by Boquébière
Style: Sour Red/Brown
Sherbrooke, Canada

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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I have purchased a bottle a week since discovering this wonderful beer about six weeks back. Perhaps it’s only my opinion, but this beer tastes a little different with each new experience. At least half of the bottles I have sampled tend to be gushers upon opening, but knowing this I am now prepared with a glass in hand. This is pure luxury as our options for this type of beer in quebec are hard to come by without doing special importation or dropping in the ball park of $30 a bottle in a bar. In the summertime I really enjoy sour ales and this one does the trick as well if not better than recent offerings I have sampled from De Ranke, Jolly Pumpkin and some of the less impressive offerings from Cantillon. Mind you I may be favourable towards this local beauty because I can find it easily at most of Montreal’s better beer outlets. This is my currently my favourite specialty beer brewed in Quebec! Try one soon as I believe stock is starting to dwindle.

sampled at bieres et saveurs A: cherry, woody, barnyard App: clear reddish brown white head. T/p: light body with long acidic finish. soft carbonation. O: superb complex simply amazing

Se déploie sur plusieurs niveaux, l’acidité attaque dès le début mais est rattrapé par la vigueur des malt rougis. Les tannins enrobent superbement le l’oeuvre, belle bouteille.

Brun-cuivré... j’avais étrangement fantasmé sur un rouge rubis. La mousse est mince mais satisfaisante. Le nez s’éparpille définitivement entre le vin boisé, le caramel et les petits fruits rouges. En bouche, on retrouve un côté surette qui rappelle un bon lambic (l’effet des levures sauvages?) et une rondeur soutenue par le sucre et l’alcool. Un goût de vin, un goût divin! En arrière-goût, l’acidité s’éteint pour laisser place à une sécheresse boisée. Assez cher, mais il n’y a rien d’équivalent (en terme de registre de saveurs) à meilleur prix sur le marché québécois pour l’instant.

Bottle, savoured on June 13 2011; eye: brown with caramel hue, hazy, average effervescence, tiny sheet of creamy corn head, slight lacing; nose: oak, sourness, horse, light red fruit; mouth: oak, sourness, malt vinegar, light horse, light cherry, slight spices, slight caramel, refreshing, slight grapefruit, finale in oak-horse with slight presence of red fruit, medium body, good carbonation, mildly sour and acidic, lighty sweet, lightly oily and slightly vinous texture; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille, savourée le 13 juin 2011; œil : brune avec des reflets caramel, trouble, effervescence moyenne, petite couverture de mousse crème de maïs très légère dentelle; nez : chêne, aigreur, cheval, léger fruit rouge; bouche : chêne, aigreur, vinaigre de malt, léger cheval, léger cerise, très léger épices, très léger caramel, rafraîchissante, très léger pamplemousse, finale en chêne-cheval avec très légère présence de fruit rouge, corps moyen, bonne carbonatation, moyennement aigre et acidulée, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement huileuse et très légèrement vineuse; en résumé : bien

750ml bottle shared by jsprime. reddish pour with an off white head. funky sour, fruity nose. solid flander red flavour. light body. like a flanders red with a lambic body. really good. thx jeff.

UPDATED: MAY 21, 2012 Wow this is my first review here, so here we go! First thing, be sure to leave this beer in the fridge for a few days as I’ve been told that this thing is just gonna explode if you open it on the same day as it was cooled down. Nonetheless, even if I listened to the advice, I decided to put the bottle in the sink just in case and GENTLY open it there. I slowly and progressively uncapped the bottle and I thought I was gonna be ok for a second or two, but then some massive amount of foam came out moments after! Be ready to pour...or in my case to drink the foam right out of the bottle!

Aroma is definately barnyard, with a tad of hay. This is FAR better than the only other "rouge des flandres" that we, in Quebec have to offer (Schoune rouge des flandres...read the rating and you’ll understand. I guess I should rate that one as well...uck Done as of Apr. 29 2012). This is only the 2nd sour I had, so my review might be a little biased but lemme tell you: it’s really worthy of its score! Apperance is delightful. We’re talking about a hazy orange robe with an intensely effervescent head initially, but it quickly settles down to...no head at all. Almost nothing even sticks to the glass, in fact, except for some yeast deposits. Not a problem for me. Taste is obviously sour, I’d say medium in intensity, but this is just because I never actually tasted a gueuze or true lambic. Obvious brett taste here. Palate: medium-light body, with a rather thin texture. Texture is relatively thin, and just very slightly oily. You get a quite fizzy one inch head after pouring which rapidly settles down to nothing after a few moments. Carbonation is very soft afterwards. Finish is obviously astringent.

Overall the best sour I had, yet. A very good and refreshing beer, that is best served cold. Even if I can get into pretty uhm...voluminous sessions sometimes, I wouldn’t have two of those (mind you, I just wouldn’t drink 1.5L of sour ale anyways)!
Edit: I had to re-rate this from 4.3 to 4 after having a Trou du Diable Dulcis Succubus, which is a superior product, in my opinion (even if it’s not a Flanders Red, as there’s only one Sour category here)

750 ml bottle purchased at Peluso (Montreal), on June 21, 2011 (first beer of 2012). Honey orange misty, small head. Aroma of red wine vinegar, spicy notes of malt. Light taste of vinegar to fruit, notes of pepper and menthol, sour fruity aftertaste. This brewery is usually a hit or miss, but this is a real hit!

@Mondial de la Bière 2012, Montreal - cloudy copper beer; vinegar and sourish cherries in the nose; clean and quite full-bodied; fairly sourish with long aftertaste of cherries and vinegar - very nice stuff !

(750ml bottle, courtesy of BMan1113VR) Pours a cloudy amber-brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of red apple skins, caramel, vinous, leather, and florals. Flavor of plum, red apple, caramel, vinous, wood, stone fruit, and light earthiness.