La Chouape 1881

Brewed by La Chouape
Style: Belgian Ale
Saint-Félicien, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Chouape 1881... Couleur ambrée, mousse blanche timide. Odeur épicée : soupçons de fruits et de cannelle. Goût fruité. Des agrumes (oranges) arrivent subtilement en finale. Un peu déçu par cette bière. Je préfère ses soeurs de St-Félicien. Cheers!

November 24, 2011 - with blankboy, jerc and mabel. 500ml bottle c/o J&K. Very hazy slightly amber gold with a quick-diminishing frothy-fizzy white head (3-). Smells fruity, sweet - not bad, really - some apricot, it’s yeasty, the alcohol makes itself known.Taste is also not offensive - quite grainy with a little unripe fruit tartness to it. Thick, undercarbonated, quick-finishing.

Clear golden with virtually no head. Some herbal hops and spruce in the aromas. Thin body, minimal carbonation, watery, finishes on the sweet side. Pretty diluted feeling on this beer and awul carbonation makes it pretty dul...

500ml bottle. Pours a hazy amber, with a small tan head. Strange aroma of American Corn Pops cereal. Huh? Chemical notes on the nose, apple juice, and Belgian yeast. The taste is watery with light dried fruit, floral notes, and thankfully none of the flavours from the nose. Has an unfortunate sour finish that kind of makes me think of rotten corn. If you could take away the finish, this would be an alright beer, but as it is, it’s a bit of a failure.

[4142-20111124] 500mL bottle. Strange leafy fruit resin aroma. Hazy, light brown orange body with a quick creamy white head. Toasted bread yeasty fruit flavour has a long toasted malt aftertaste. Medium body is a little sour. It doesn’t seem like it should be sour. (5/3/5/3/9) 2.5
Overheard: "Maybe all their beers are made with moose extract?"

Bottle [500ml] shared with HogTownHarry, jerc & mabel -- c/o j&m. Nov. 2011. Pours a hazy orange-copper with a small diminishing fizzy white head. Somewhat unpleasant aroma of "bottle" along with canned peas, fruit and light hops. Flavour is fruity along with those canned peas again, light hops, herbs, sugar and a light bitter finish. Average bodied. Flavour’s a little better then the aroma but I did not care for this.

2011-11-24. Hazy golden body with a nice foamy beige head. Flavour is off putting up front, grainy and oddly tangy, bit of a spicy note? Interesting aroma, spicy yeast, notes of a grainy malt character common to many Quebec brews, possibly hinting at oxidation? 6+ Average plus bodied palate. Finishes better than it starts, but a bit odd around the edges. Bottle from Dépanneur Tout-Près, Lévis

pours orange, slight haze, with a small white head, low retention and lacing. fresh cereals, spices, oranges, citrus, pepper, toasted sweetness. soft carbonation, light to medium body, short peppery finish.

Bière trouble couleur de miel, sur dépôts de levures. Elle ne produit aucun col. Des arômes fruités de pêches, de terre humide,d’herbes vertes. Légèrement amère avec une trace de sucre résiduel. De corps moyen, à l’effervescence légère, elle laisse une fin honnête et aromatique.

Bottle 500ml
Aroma: Belgian yeast , sweet feel to it ,leafy green hop character, slight citric hint. Clean malt with streak of alcohol.
Appearance: hazed amber on top large frothy head. Low carbonation.4-
Flavour and Palate: Medium bodied. Rather low carbonation. Bitter hop character with yeasty background. On sides alcohol. Refreshing stronger Belgian Ale.