Le Naufrageur Swordfish

Brewed by Microbrasserie Le Naufrageur
Style: Belgian Ale
Carleton-sur-Mer, Canada

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Couleur brun chocolat, 8% d’alccool. Très belle bouteille. Servie dans un verre pinte anglaise. Au nez, le sucre, le caramel et des notes subtiles de cassis et de petits fruits rouges sont présentes. En bouche, le sucre et le goût de caramel écossais fait une belle explosion. Belle petite scotch ale originale, qui vaut certainement l’essai. Dans les produits que je vais racheter. Cheers!

On tap at the brewpub, sample size. I was not going to Le Naufrageur expecting to have some great belgian style beers, but this reddish ale had a great complexity and was really a easy to drink one. Roasted malts and caramel, with a typically belgian yeast. A great hybrid beer!

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2009 18,99$ for a 64 oz container like you see on the picture, available at least at Peluso in Montreal. A refreshing brew with intense and well balanced flavors of fruits (dates, dry figs, others), subtle honey and other sweetness and a powerful, and delightful, hop kickdown, as I don’t remember having tasted in any beer, very present but not aggressively. These guys are obviously very serious when it comes to hops. I really like this beer. It somehow reminds me of a brown Leffe, with more subtilities and with a much more intense hop presence. A very respectable beer.

Brun foncé avec des teintes rougeâtres. Elle dégage des odeurs de mélasse, de figues et/ou de dattes séchées et de levure. elle goûte le malt, le pain grillé, j’y détecte une légère note surette, ainsi qu’une épice quelconque qui rappelle un peu le Chinotto, qui laisse une très douce amertume en bouche.

UPDATED: DEC 19, 2011 Bouteille 500 ml. 6.75%. Couleur brune très foncé,teinte rougeâtre, mousse beige. Arôme de malt, caramel et un peu de levure belge. Goût étonnant, malt, un peu d’agrume, un peu de chocolat, houblon, malt anglais. Finale en amertume et un peu de caramel. Déstabilisante, excellente.

The nose is softly worty with a little bit of toasted grain character. A little bit of roasted/toasted malt flavour. A little bit of soft fruit and toasted cocoa graininess. A little bit of light yeasty flavour. The fresh malt character comes out as it warms.

Sample at Vice et Versa in Montreal. Pours a reddish dark brown with thin tan head. Aroma has treacle, caramel. Taste is malty and layered, very pleasing, not too boozy. Very enjoyable.

Solid cap over clear dark red-brown body. Big grainy-malty aroma that plays into the taste with added vanilla and fig, GOOD. Tart and complex sweet fruit.

UPDATED: JUN 22, 2009 Bottle. Dark reddish ale, with a medium creamy mocha head. Aroma is toasted and roasted malt, caramel, chocolate, herbal hops and fruits. Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate, a hint of coffee, raisins, herbal hops, and caramel with a touch of vanilla. Medium to full body.

Purchased from the IGA in Hull, QC. Wow... this smells great !! Well-balanced between the fresh herbal hop and the caramel (sweetness)/roasted (burnt) malts. Deep copper-amber colour with a little ruby hue when light shinned through. Foamy beige head with good retention and lots of lacing. Average mouthfeel, easy to drink. The taste is not as powerful as the aromas, but still decent. Still malty, but milder, and the nice hop does appear in the finish, slightly lingering, creating bitterness and dryness. This is a really good strong brown ale (quite interesting and different). I very much enjoyed my first experience from this brewery. Can’t wait to try the others.