La Voie Maltée Courtisane

Brewed by La Voie Maltée
Style: Cream Ale
Jonquière, Canada

En fût. Verre de 20 oz dégusté directement à La Voie Maltée (Chicoutimi, QC). Arôme: Légère odeur d’houblons. Apparence: La couleur est dorée-ambrée. Présence d’un moyen col crémeux et d’une large dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de céréales et d’houblons. Courte durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture crémeuse. Faible effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement fruité. (Rating #1995)

My Bottom Line:
This standard Cream Ale offers subtle honeyed maltiness hugging an earthy, leafy hop crescendo for a balanced but maybe forgettable session ale.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam covers the clear pale amber.
-The hops mostly flourish in the finish.
-The dextrins are mild and levelled.
-The entire flavor profile is very delicate and straightforward. Few ingredients must come into play here and simple ones at that.

On tap at the Chicoutimi brewpub.

Rusty nail copper, with a full inch of compact, stout-like head.
Borderline skunky hop profile, but not in a lightstruck kind of way, more like some really dank weed. It had sort of a smokey, café au lait quality to it as well.
Lightly carbonated with plenty of malt, without being very heavy, plenty of grain in the aftertaste, this was fine but would have been killer on cask.

Aroma:butter,caramel... Appearance:cooper ,good head... Flavor:butter scotch....

A hazy orange beer with a small dense off-white nitro-head. The aroma is sweet malty and fruity - especially oranges coming thru, but the aroma is very light. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of oranges and a dry hoppy end.

Clean citrus-grapefruit hops underlying grainy malts. Clear copper coloured body with generous and dense, lasting, white (nitro) head that laces nicely. Grainy malts and herbal, grassy, citrus hops with some grapiness in the flavour. Fairly prickling, assertive carbonation with medium body. Sampled at the brewpub with Oakes, Rastacouere and Ungstrup.

Huge white head is very sticky and covers completely the clear amber body. Nose is grainy and hoppy, rather oily, nutty and soapy, not unlike a youngs london special with less orange. Taste is quite light though, nutty and earthy with grassy suggestions. Slightly creamy texture, moreso oily, fitting light body. Interesting for what it is.