Heritage Black Currant Rye Lager

Aroma:Fruit,black currant... Appearance:Redish,good head... Flavor:Fruity light caramel....

Vegetal undertone to the sickly sweet, juicelike fruit aroma. Dark amber-brown body is topped by a low, white, fully diminishing head. Overly sweet with artificial tasting fruit flavour and underlying DMS. Rough though light bitterness in the finish along with some vague spiciness. Light, watery and syrupy with very low carbonation. No thanks. Bottle sampled at the Montreal YEHa’05.

Reddish amber ale with no head. Chenical currant aroma with spoiled cheese and burned rubber. In mout, chemical sweet fruits, viscous and cloying, with a weird bitterness. Ouch...this is bad. A rip-off at 4.79. LCBO.

(750ml bottle) Sampled at TiggMTL’s Montreal Crew YEHa!05 Christmas Party on December 17, 2005. Pours a dissipated white head with a brown-orange body. Nose of eggs, sharp fruit, cheese and rye. Sweet... sweeter than brown sugar. This is totally gross. Rumoured to be a spoiled batch at the brewery that they decided to save for Christmas. Yeh, Happy F#ck’n Christmas to you too!

The Lure:
A heavy blackcurrant juice spread over a light pea soup. Black grapes and yeast are frightened by the sweetness of it all, and by the lurking DMS of course.

The Festivities:
Mostly sweet candied fruitiness in all its artificial splendor. Low carbonation doesn’t help its drinkability factor, and the ending roastiness really doesn’t merge with the sugary fruit. Yeast bothers.

Transcendence:
The multicoloured cereal aisle at the supermarket.

Qui l’a décrite comme ceci : « poil de cul de gorille en rut ayant mangé du mexicain la veille » ? Incroyablement pas très bon. Âcre, fruit complètement hors contexte, trop (et mal) sucrée.

Bottle. Nice rusty body topped with a decent off-white foamy head. Enjoyable hoppy aroma with sweet and blackcurrant notes. Taste may lack coomplexity and is a bit too malty. Leaves a sharp bitter/sour aftertaste. Not among my favourites in that category, but still pretty decent.

cask. ruby-brown with a sudsy white head. aroma has some sourness, mild rye, sweet malt. very sweet fruity flavour that seemed cloying at times - almost undesirabley so. some bread malt and light berries. not too great.