Le Grimoire Désérable

Brewed by Le Grimoire Microbrasserie
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Granby, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Sample on tap at Bières et saveurs (Chambly). Aroma is maple cornet (too much!) and practically nothing else... Heavy beer. Watery texture. Skip this one...

UPDATED: DEC 13, 2012 Bouteille 660ml. Couleur brune ambrée, mousse blanche disparaissant rapidement. Arôme d’alcool et d’érable plutôt léger. Goût d’eau d’érable, plutôt dilué pour une bière à l’érable. Assez moyen.

Bottle. Light to moderate malt and hop notes of cookie, roasted, caramel, light bread, perfume and citrus flowers, light dough and musty basement for the yeast, with hints of nutmeg, cinnamon and alcohol. Head is huge, fizzy, off-white to pale yellow with some slippery lacing and is mostly lasting. Color is clear, but muddy on last pour, medium amber/orange. Flavor starts lightly bittersweet and moderately to heavily acidic, then finishes moderately acidic and bitter. Palate is light to medium, watery with a fizzy carbonation and a lightly dry and alcoholic finish. The complex malt pressence, though not bold, is the most noteworthy part of this Spiced Beer. The taste is a little perfumey and it’s a little over-carbonated are the only things i can say are bad about it.

Bière légèrement ambrée, parfaitement limpide et coiffée d’un fin col couleur d’os traçant une fine dentelle au verre. Un arôme puissant (un peu trop?) de tire d’érable qui couvre une maltage qu’on soupçonne riche, arômes rappelant vaguement le Sortilège. Légèrement amère avec une trace d’acidité. Bière au corps rond, à l’effervescence vive et à la texture crémeuse. Elle se termine sur de puissants arômes d’érable.

Sample at the falsely called "Beer Festival" Festibière de Laval 2011.
Appearance : Hazy yellow with small head.
Aroma : Big maple syrup. A bit buttery, quite sugary.
Taste : Cheap Aunt Jemima™ syrup. Buttery caramel. buttery finish with light alcohol.
Overall : Another deception from Grimoire. I normally don’t buy their stuff and now I know why.

Mondial de la Bière 2011, Strasbourg - clear amber-red beer with a modest head retention; dry aroma of maple syrup; a solid yet subtle carbonation, some sweetness; aftertaste of red fruits and maple syrup

Bouteille 660ml. De couleur ambrée-cuivrée et voilée. Nez de sirop d’érable, léger de grains de malt sucrés avec des notes de houblon herbeux ainsi que des traces fruitées (pommes vertes). Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-fort et une texture aux faibles notes crémeuses. Goût de beurre d’érable dès l’entrée bouche auquel se rajoute un moyen goût de grains de malt sucrés avec des traces de biscuits secs puis en finale l’on retrouve des notes herbeuses avec une légère recrudescence de goût de sirop d’érable ainsi que de faibles traces de bois humide. Post-goût moyen-court, composé d’un léger goût de sirop d’érable avec des traces herbeuses.

UPDATED: JAN 4, 2013 Bouteille 660 ml. 8%. Couleur brune ambrée, muosse beige onctueuse. Arômes de malt et érable. Goût de malt, céréale, érable et un peu de houblon. Finale avec une très légère amertume.Bonne beer à l’érable mais très sucrée.

Bomber from Broue Ha Ha. Dark hazy amber with tan head. Maple syrup, grains and not much else. Well carbonated, sweet, light, maple syrup throughout, a little artificial but not overpowering. One dimensional but not necessarily worth trying unless its right in front of you.

UPDATED: JUN 26, 2011 At the Festi-Bière de Gatineau. Got a 9oz serving, courtesy of the guy at the counter who had problems with numbers. Pour is brownish and clear brown with a sizeable head. Aroma is mainly about maple syrup, but there’s some floral hops but as well. Excellent. Taste is, well, basically, liquify maple butter, put too much of it in an amber ale, add some priming sugar, and you have this. TERRIBLE. No balance whatsoever, and what seemed like a hoppy (for once!) maple beer is lost in what is actually a pathetic excuse for putting maple products (there’s too much maple here I’m afraid to say they put syrup and not resin or butter) in beer. Finish is sweet in a terrible way. Stay as far as possible from this one. Or better : put it on your pancakes, as it has more maple taste than most of the non-maple syrup stuff on the maket. Or just put some yeast in a maple syrup can and let it do its job for a few days, then drink the $!)*%!*%!" can. Gimme a Molson Ex above this.