Boréale Blonde

Brewed by Brasseurs du Nord
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Blainville, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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341ml bottle.pours a nice golden colour with a medium head that calms quickly. smells predominately of malt and corn, with some sweetness and grains. taste of malt and corn as well with an earthy and grainy finish. kinda flat. pretty boring.

Out of the bottle at Double Pizza in Montreal in Oct ’05. Smells sweet, tastes sweet with some citrus and spice. Is this a faux wit? Not too much different than the Doree, sweet as all get out, but this one has a touch more flavor. Boreale is apparently adjunct free, which make it better than BMC products. Real fucking sweet.

341 mL bottle. Orange-gold in colour, with a thin film of head. Smells like malt and corn. Tastes like malt and corn, with a touch of citrus. Flat finish. Not so good. Funny. I remember liking this stuff on tap, years ago.

Golden yellow with a modest head. Fresh aroma with hints of sweet fruit (melon?). Very clean palate, moderately sweet with some restrained fruity hop character. Nice.

Bon, une bonne tit biere qui se prend bien relax. Sans pretention avec un bon gout en bouche. Mmm elle coule bien.

grainy boring bland all discribe this beer, and like was said kinda a corn nose, not too appealing

Malt and corn nose, yellow, pours abig white head. Mild malt taste, grainy, sweet. Could be a macro.

Bright yellow gold color, with a rocky white head, sweet pale malt, hint of floral hops, with a touch of honey in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet toasted grains character, pale malt, honey sweetness, leading towards a malty sweet grainyness and faint hops bittering finish.

UPDATED: JUN 14, 2006 Blonde body, medium white head, limited lacing. Looks like a boring macro blonde, but looks can be deceiving, if I’d look under the label I’d probably see that’s it’s a fake blonde. Rather tasty. Biscuit and hops aroma. Taste is biscuit/baked bread and a strong hop character with some bitterness (even more so than their Rousse). Unfortunately I notice a little cardboard flavour in the finish even in the tap version. Overall a nice blonde ale that can help to show the light to some macro drinkers.

From bottle and "en fut": Amazing that a small brewer can make such a perfect imitation of Canadian macro swill. Immediately forgettable - over carbonated, some maltiness in the aroma, artificially sweet tasting and an aftertaste that left a mild but unpleasant bitterness.