La Tour à Bières Cap Trinité (Blonde)

Brewed by Brasseurs du Saguenay - La Tour à Bières
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Saguenay, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Brown bottle, 660 ml, purchased at Le Grand Duc on November 12 2007, savoured on December 1 2007; eye: caramel, hazy, slight effervescence, voluminous white head that falls rapidly, a bit of lacing; nose: malt, odours are faint and of honey, light floral; mouth: tastes are faint, grainy malt, honey is present throughout the sip, small presence of hops, floral becomes present towards the end, rose water, finale in honey with a presence of hops and a touch of rose water, rather carbonated, a bit thin, lightly sweet and hoppy, medium body, slightly grainy texture, slight astringency; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 660 ml, achetée chez Le Grand Duc le 12 novembre 2007, savourée le 1er décembre 2007; œil : caramel, voilée, très légère effervescence, mousse blanche abondante qui tombe assez rapidement, un peu de dentelle; nez : malt, odeurs peu prononcées de miel, léger floral; bouche : saveurs peu prononcées, malt granuleux, miel est présent tout au long de la gorgée, toute petite présence de houblon, floral est présent vers la fin, eau de rose, finale en miel avec présence de houblon floral et une touche d’eau de rose, plutôt carbonatée, un peu mince, légèrement sucrée et houblonnée, corps moyen, texture légèrement granuleuse, très légère astringence; en résumé : ordinaire

Bottle split with Dallas saved from last years trip to Canada. This brew is definitely skunked. A shame too, we really wanted to like this blond.

Bouteille de 660 ml. La bière se présente avec une couleur miel foncé et un col de mousse modeste. Au nez on découvre des arômes de trèfle, de fleurs sauvages, de miel et de céréales. En bouche le corps est mince-moyen avec une effervescence faible-moyenne. On goûte des saveurs de fleurs sur un fond âcre de céréales sucrées.

Bottle (660ml). Via trade with Viper666. Classic slow-gushing Québec beer, totally loaded with huge dark chunkies - amber pour, with a large, quick-diminishing white head. Sweet aroma, hint of pear and paper, a bit floral. The taste is not bad - stingingly carbonated, sweet and fruity yet also harsh and increasingly metallic as it warms. Light, lively mouthfeel - apart from the shocking chunks and harshness, not all that bad. But watch the bottle! - it continues to foam up forever, you could have a mess on your hands if not careful.

Bouteille. Arôme de levure, acide et légèrement houblonné-malté. Couleur voilée orangée-jaunâtre. Très très beau collet, mousse bien compacte, reste très longtemps, trace bien le verre. Goût doux, légèrement sucré, finale en amertume citronnée. Effervescence douce, mais corps un peu mince. Surpris.

Mildly grapey, husky, sweet malt aroma. Clear, deep golden body is topped by a decent, though fizzy, white head that recedes to a thin cover with marginal lacing. Grany and grapey flavour along with some of the tar-like, plasticky house character. Light, watery body with moderate, large bubbled, carbonation that is aggressive but doesn’t stick around. Tulip glass. Just above fridge temperature. Bottle (Peluso, Jan-05).

Bottle. Nice amber/dark gold hazy body topped with a decent white foamy head. Fair malty aroma with floral, yeasty and bready notes. Taste is not very well balanced: It is too malty and ends with a short bitter finish. Uninteresting.

Bouteille-De couleur doré foncé avec la présence de particule, odeur fleurale, goût quasi inexistant sauf peut-être son côté plastique, bouteille probablement infectée.--Bottle-Dark golden with yeast particules in the liquid, flowery smell, taste almost inexistant except maybe for the plastic taste side, probably infected.

The Lure:
Faint honey sweetness lazily falling onto flowery esters. Not much to capture your attention.

The Festivities:
A sweet honeyed front harbors flowers and an anonymous fruit blend. The last half is grainy and young, finishing up with a yeasty placidity. Like most of their beers I’ve had, the feel is flat, unrefined, and seems unfinished. As if they don’t extract properly, or they just serve way too early into the process. Drinkable, never infected, but...

Transcendence:
Immaturity bores those who are looking beyond.

Hazy honey-amber hue, with a nice foamy white head, yeasty, caramel malt, bready dough, honey, fruity aroma folows through on a medium-bodied palate with grainy, pale malt, soft floral hops, earthy note, with a delicate hoppy accent leading towards a faint malty finish.