Brouhaha Forêt Enchantée

Brewed by Broue Pub Brouhaha
Style: Imperial Stout
Montreal, Canada

Serve in Snifter

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Draft: Poured a pitch-black color ale with a small foamy head with light retention and minimal lacing. Aroma consists of roasted malt with notes of semi-sweet dry cranberry and weird spicy notes. Taste is a complex mix between some roasted malt which provides a dry base with some dry fruits notes with some spices to overlay the whole mix. Body is quite full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Interesting and quite the sipper though not sure I would be willing to drink this on a regular basis.

In short: A strange roasted, chocolaty, fruity and spicy stout. Tasty chaotic beer that is hard to describe.
How: Tap at brewpub
The look: Black body topped by a very small tan head
In long: Nose is very roasted, fruity and spicy. Same with the taste. The blend of roastiness, fruitiness and spiciness was such that I was having a hard time identifying individual aroma and flavor elements. The spiciness at times felt like those of a mexican dish and at times those of a chinese dish. The strange fruitiness was maybe apples, maybe berries, maybe other stuff. Kind of hard to make up with the high roastiness and chocolaty flavor. Anyway, this is a tasty beer no doubt, but I found it was a beer where flavors were clashing with each other rather than working together. Far from harmonious. Still not bad, but far from my favorite Brouhaha. I won’t have that one again. I didn’t need to drink this beer. Living in a brewpub area like Montreal there are just too many new beers to try all the time and it is starting to be too much work for me to try them all. I’m thinking of outsourcing some of my drinking to India.

A dark brown stout with a thin brown head. In aroma, a sweet spiced up chocolate with light berries, light woody notes. In mouth, a very herbaceous concoction, with loads of cloves, thyme, like a chinotto, black pepper, bizarre and challenging. On tap at Brouhaha, March 11 2011.

Le liquide est brun foncé, à la limite d’être noir. Un anneau de mousse flotte sur la concoction. Une fois la main posée sur le verre, tout me semble trop froid et cette subite embuscade me fait dire que je dois patienter quelques minutes avant de pouvoir y plonger le nez et les lèvres. Mais bon, comme je suis impatient et en proie à un delirium tremens, je plonge mon nez escarpé et détecte d’emblée beaucoup d’épices. Des effluves de Noël tourbillonnent et des souffles de gingembre, de girofle, de muscade et de cannelle transpercent des grains maltés foncés, chocolatés et fruités qui prennent véritablement la forme d’un gâteau mouillé par un alcool parfumé. Le goût est tout aussi épicé, en proie à des saveurs orientales et des saveurs diluées de fruits cachées derrière des saveurs légèrement chocolatés et subtilement torréfiées de grains foncés qui sont relevées par un alcool tout à fait goûteux et accompagnateur de houblons jusqu’ici bien cachés. En bouche, le liquide a une structure passablement moyenne avec une effervescence modérée et une texture qui me semble mince, très peu fidèle à un stout impérial. En finale, les papilles et la langue sont attaquées par une amertume épicée de grains rôtis et de houblons fortifiés à l’alcool tiède.

Verre de dégustation, provenant d’un fût, dégusté au Winter Warmer Montréal 2010 (Montréal, QC). Arôme: Odeur de canelle et de clous de Girofle avec une pointe de canneberges. Apparence: La couleur est noire opaque. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de canneberges et d’épices (Canelle, muscade et clous de Girofle). Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Légère présence d’épices en arrière goût. (Rating #3488)

Pitch black color, with a tan-colored head, nice spicy nose of ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon, clove, jamaican pepper, star anise, with a faint toasted, roasted, chocolate, black malt note, and faint fruity dried cranberry accent in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a warmth chocolate, black, roasted, toasted malt, fruity, spicy character of gingerbread, jamaican pepper, star anise, with a light sweet and sour cranberry fruity, dark bitter chocolate flavour, with a mild black coffee, burnt toast, and burnt fruitcake undertone, leading towards a spiced, faint fruity, winey, acidic, chocolatey, roasted bitterness finish.

Drank on tap (12 oz) at the brewpub, on January 22, 2011. Very dark brown, little head. Spicy aroma of malt, which hides the cranberries. Spicy smoked malt flavor, slightly fruity, sour aftertaste. It’s good but the cranberries are not present enough.

Sampled at Winter Warmer Montreal 2011. Dark brown-black with some reddish notes, a thin beige head with average retention. Aroma is spices, cinnamon, cranberries, cloves, alcohol and anis seed. Flavor is spices, cranberries, chocolate, bread and alcohol. Medium body.