Bowes Dry Treebu

Brewed by Groupe Geloso
Style: Pale Lager
Laval, Canada

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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341 ml botte purchased to compare and contrast with that masterful cornucopia of hop and malt, Bowes Treebu. Let’s see how this stacks up. A twinge of head and some lace top a mild light gold, clear body...really repellant overcooked asparagus and creamed corn nose, gaaahhh....flavor not nearly as nauseating, moderately sweet, thin, with a somewhat brackish finish...well, the front & middle of the flavor are tolerable, but the rest...pour.

Pours a clear golden/yellow with a fizzed out white head. Vegetal and corn aroma, some minute grain, smells almost metallic, paper. Watery corn with grain and alcohol in the flavour department. Vegetal finish. Fizzy, quick finish. They seem to make a lot of these types of lagers in Quebec, and when I see em at a Corner Store in Hull, I’m a sucker for em.

Bottle: Aroma is lightly skunk and strong corn syrup diluted in water. Bad enough as it is, it gets really bad when it warms since the corn syrup just gets more discernable. Bad discount beer and not much else to say about that one.

CORNE’D. Drank in can. taste like honey and corn. Sweet and it goes down fast. Dry, doesnt leave you anyway taste. Blargg. Not good.

Corn adjuncts aroma, pale yellow, pours a finger of white head, some lace. Stale, flat malt taste,thin, unpleasant mouthfeel. Whew!

Pale yellow body topped with a very thin and diminishing bubbly head. Light malty aroma with some corny and bready hints. Mouthfeel is sweet, corny and dry. This is very boring, but not enough bad to figure in the "Drainpour" hall of shame.

Mildly sweet sugary aroma. Very pale with thin white fully diminishing head. Almost flavourless. Slightly sweet with a hint of hops. Watery thin body. It is actually clean and well-brewed if entirely pointless. Not a drainpour but I’d rather drink real water. Blech.

(Bottle) Pours a medium, white head and a straw body. Same fruity Goldings hops as the other two. The water must be good nearby the Bowes brewery because thats all their beer tastes of.

Pale yellow color. Nose is lightly fruity with sugary conotations and light grass, i'm reaching. Body is spritzy and sugary with a sweetness ending in a somewhat burntish hop dryness. This rating makes it sound interesting when actually it was quite dismal. That's what you get when you have to write 75 characters.

I found this little gem in the deep hart of Montreal. Plane yellow, minimal head, sweet. Sure it was dry, so got not much of any taste. Well the mouthfeel was so offensive, it was lacking any qualities decent beer should have. Great opening for today’s beer session.