Boréale Cuivrée

Brewed by Brasseurs du Nord
Style: Amber Ale
Blainville, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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12oz bottle. Golden caramel honey color. Smooth and sweet, with a very mellow level carbonation. RIch and creamy, and very drinkable at 6.9%.

bouteille, la remplaçante de la boréale forte, mois bonne que celle-ci, caramélisé, facile à boire pour une strong ale.

Bouteille. Couleur ambrée-or, claire, mousse mince s’estompant lentement. Arôme de malt, caramélisé, torréfié, très légèrement levure et fumée. Goût fruité et sucré, caramélisé, finale d’alcool, mais pas agressante. Corps moyen, effervescence moyenne. J’aime bien.

2006 bottle drunk on 9/2/06.
Fluffy, beige-tinted off-white head is medium-sized and recedes steadily to cover. Some sticky lacing is left behind. Clarity is medium-high to high, with a sparkle of large bubbles rising throughout the deep copper-brass body. As the comm. description says, there is a slight hint of a coral/salmon color.
Stiff fruits and plenty of rich caramel sweetness fills up the nose. Sweet peaches, ripe apricots and a hint of canteloupe, it tapers off in to a slightly sourish note of heavy crystal and/or munich-like malts. Not much in the way of hops or alcohol, so the toasty, sourdough-bread notes are left to balance, which, IMHO, don’t balance, but just cause sourness/acidity. So you get the typical sweet and sour marzen-like effect, only the yeast isn’t very crisp here and the malts add an almost candy-like syrupiness which I find to be overbearing.
Almost the aroma in flavor form, sweet, syrupy malts begin to cloy and are balanced by dry fruits (peaches, sweet pears), dry, toasted and sourdough-like maltiness. Heavily bready, with no yeast finesse (somewhat mineral-like in nature, though I wouldnt quite say metallic. Some phenolic spiciness). Certainly not a beer meant for refreshment. So I assume it’s a slow-sipper. But who the hell wants to sip dull caramel/candy sweetness with toasted-malt acidity/sourness on the end? Texture is comforting, with moderate carbonation and a slippery-thick feel to the malts. Alcohol presence is minimal for its strength. Rather brutish.

A mostly diminishing thin frothy white head tops up a hazy medium orange body. No lacing. No particles. No bubbles. Heavy filtration. Aroma presents malt being light cereal/bready and very light caramel while hops are very faint leafy ... Yeast character is light fruitiness. Also, there are evident evocations of Initial flavor is moderate sweet malt shell while development os lightly woody. Finish is medium . medium body... watery texture... Soft carbonation... Nice and honest beer, no flaws but has a main stream character to it.
[Bottled ; BB June 28, 06]

Bottle 341ml. Appearance: Deep amber with thin head. Aroma: toffee, malty Flavor: malt, sweet, caramel.

UPDATED: AUG 9, 2007 Un peu amère, caramellisé, forte sans être imposante, chaleureuse, simplement leur meilleur bière.

(341 ml bottle). Clear golden-copper colour. Weak head that does not last. Almost no lacing. Sweet malty caramel aroma. Although at 6.9% alcohol you don’t taste it too much. Finish has a sharp bitterness.

(Bottle, from Montreal) Deep amber with very little head. Aroma reminded me of brandy - fruit and alcohol. Full bodied. Sweet malt, fruits, warming alcohol (even though it really isn’t that high in EtOH content).

bottle. copper body with a tiny white ring of head. aroma has apple juice, bread, booze, and toffee. this has a slightly fruity body with notes of lemon citrus. Warm alcohol in the end with a suprisingly sharp bitterness. not too impressed.