Le Grimoire Grimousse

Brewed by Le Grimoire Microbrasserie
Style: Amber Ale
Granby, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Dégustée en fût au Vices & Versa (ou peut-être au Saint-Bock...). De couleur ambrée foncée et voilée. Nez malté de caramel doux sucré, léger de levures fruitées aux notes terreuses (petits fruits foncés et traces d’agrumes) avec des notes de grains sucrés. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture aux faibles notes huileuses. Petites notes de levures fruitées (notes de cerises, de raisins et d’agrumes) lors de l’entrée en bouche rapidement suivi d’un goût malté de caramel moyennement sucré avec des notes terreuses ainsi que des notes de grains sucrés et de pain puis en finale, l’on retrouve des notes amères de houblon floral aux notes herbeuses. Post-goût court-moyen, très légèrement amer de houblon floral avec de faibles notes fruitées (zest d’agrumes). (printemps 2006)

pours clear amber-red with a decent beige head, some retention/lacing. light acidity, caramel malts - no depth, fruitiness, rum-demerara feeling. average to soft carbonation, light body - oily, lightly acidic, decent grassy finish.

Bière ambrée, parfaitement limpide, sans aucun col. Elle offre des arômes de céréales grillées, de caramel, de café doux avec quelques notes lactées. Peu amère, elle révèle une pointe d’acidité et une certaine minéralité saline. Elle est de corps mince, à la texture huileuse et à l’effervescence vive au début, mais qui s’essouffle rapidement. Elle se termine sur des notes aromatiques.

Appearance: Transparent brown. Small, frothy head that dissipated quickly. Aroma: Weirdest beer I’ve ever smelt. Very hard to describe - notes of berries, perfume, mold, fake banana-flavouring, syrup. It’s different, but not pleasant. Palate: thin-to-medium bodied, slightly dry finish. Taste: fairly sweet, and also fairly sour, which was unexpected. I’m not sure to think of this beer. After a few mouthfuls, I feel it’s lacking. I don’t find it as bad as others seem to, but I won’t buy it again.

(bottle) clear dark reddish brown colour, small tan head; aroma of sweet fruit, bubblegum; clean, malty simple flavour

The bottle is as ugly as sin. As for the beer inside? Pours a deep brown , not too bad looking actually. Small cap with a bit of lacing. Smell - Hard to describe here - faint hit of caramel, cocoa and wet grass. Taste is nothing but malt - cheap sour malt at that. little carbonation, not worth finishing the glass.

One of the worst beers I have drank. I was expecting a typical Quebec rousse and it certainly looks the part. The first clue that it is not is the aroma that can be best described as the smell of a room when some drunk people have puked. The taste is not much better, many reviewers describe it as sour and it is but it has an extra taste that is very difficult to describe but is very unpleasnat. Hard to drink a full bottle of this. The only good thing about this beer is the picture and story on the bottle. To be fair it does state that the Grimoire is "different, astonishing, should not be feared even if others fear him and that his aroma is unique" so maybe they were trying to brew something like this. I am not shamed to admit that I fear the Grimousse though!

Bière rousse de 5 % d’alcool. Excellente, rafraîchissante. Petit goût d’agrume, mais sans trop. Aucun arrière goût. Léger col au versement. De caramel comme les critiques ? Non je ne trouve pas. Très bonne bière !

Dark brown pour, no head. Bready malts, sour malts, metal. Dull, very very dull. Bad beer.