Les Trois Mousquetaires S.S. American Pale Ale

Brewed by Les Trois Mousquetaires
Style: American Pale Ale
Brossard, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tulip

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Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Muddy amber color, with medium sized creamy head. Malt aroma and flavor, almost like the ones you feel during mashing and before fermentation; it also has a medicinal and phenolic touch in the flavor, some fudge/caramel, a moderate nutty touch, and quite strong bitterness with some hop qualities.
Quite weird.

Bottle caged and corked with the name Americaine. Poured a clear copper color with a large frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with excellent lacing. Moderate to heavy grass hop, yeast and malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium yeasty bittersweet flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. I would recommend this to a freind.

Golden orange ale with lught rosey hues. A nice floral hops aroma with notes of menthol and pine tree. In mouth, a classy ale with crisp malts, floral pinhey hops, lighter bodied, but quite superb. Delicious.

Amber golden pour. The nose is lightly hoppy and orangey with a touch of soft sweetness. Light toffeeish malt character along with a little bit of orange hop flavour. Light bitterness and a fairly watery palate. It might have a bit of age on it - but it definitely needs more oomph. Meh.

Fresh bomber. A mild hoppy beer that hits initially creamy but then you see its strong carbonation. Still drinkable but way too much carbonation. Some orange flavour, it makes the style.

My Bottom Line:
This English Pale Ale’s leafy hops and soft haystack subtly flavor throughout, showcasing balance and drinkability right before its finishing bitterness plants the idea of a new sip.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam skirts the clear pale orange.
-Strawberry fruitiness is found within.
-Carbonation is frothy and filling.
-A tame citrusy fruitiness is tasted as well, linking the malt and hop contributions.

On tap at Le Festival des Bières et Saveurs de Chambly.

2012-02-17. Crisp dark orange large foamy off white head. Dusty malty aroma, light greenery light citrus. 6+ Flavour is similar earthy leafy green hops, muted citrus touches. 7+ Smooth average palate is nice. Okay. Bit muddled overall, possibly on the old side? Bottle from Dépanneur Tout-Près, Levis

Crystal clear light orange hue. Generous white head slowly fades though leaves honest lacing. The nose becomes almost pungent as it warms while really discreet when cool. Certainly dominated by expressive flowery and resinous hop notes coming in spades and reshaping themselves with every sniff. Frankly, the malt felt quite understated among it all, slightly-cracker-like, but failing to add an alternative dimension to this hop showdown. Rather light bodied, though with a certain slickness hypothetically from the hop resins which translates in a growing astringency as the carbonation slowly fades after a few minutes of air contact. Evolves mintier and oilier from then leaving a toothpaste reminding fresh feeling.

Bottle (750ml). Shared by blankboy with garthicus and tupalev. Very clear bright orange pour, smallish frothy-creamy beige head. Funky, vegetal leafy hops, alcohol, a bit of salty green olive. The taste carries better, grainy and lightly acidic, the funky hops come out better here (stronger yet not really vegetal like the aroma) but still an earthy tang - crisp, simple. Average body, mild bite to it, definitely an APA. Decent.

UPDATED: NOV 23, 2007 In short: Nice refreshing Pale Ale (original draft version). Decent heavily caramelized Pale Ale (2007 bottle version)
How: Draft at Yer Mad (first batch 3.3/5). Then bottle 750ml almost two years later (3.1/5).
The look: Clear golden-amber body with a small beige head
In long: The bottle was overly caramelized and lacked the nice refreshing and well-balanced aspect of the original draft. Notes for the original draft: Exactly what you can expect from the style, nothing more, nothing less. Very solid but nothing that stands out. Clear copper-orange body topped by a small white head. Hoppy nose, initial malt-caramel taste followed by a hop attack and a very pleasant bitter finish. A very boring description for a pretty good beer. An excellent pub beer for the hop-lovers. The beer was brewed by an independent home brewer (Yer Mad owner I was told) at the Trois Mousquetaires premises. So far the two best beers from this brewery (Sargasse & Festive) have been brewed by home brewers. If you ask me they should add a fourth Mousquetaire because the current Trois Mousquetaires could use some help