 cquiroga (370), Sylmar, California, USA
Apr 11, 2006
4/10/06. Poured out of 500 mL bottle, purchased 7/10/05 somewhere in Montreal. Rated blind. Pours a luminescent gold-peach color with a quickly fading coarsely sandy offwhite head. Unimpressive, broken and skimpy lacing. Aroma is honeyed, sort of maple syrupy (but not sugary), unsweetened cinnamon applesauce and peach skins, lightly tart with a gentle tease of funky yeast. Combination of components is disharmonious, even if the descriptors may sound enticing. Reminds me of apple baby food. Flavor is a step back, even. The first half-second is decent, hinting on a bright bite of tart apples almost reminiscent of the Montreal ice ciders, but it devolves quickly into a grainy, bland, corn sugary puddle of colored water. There’s still a little tart crabapple residue and *I guess* a dryness (more like "sandiness" from the coarse carbonation scrubbing away at your tongue) that reminds you that you did, in fact, just drink a beer. Not impressive at all. Contains slight vegetal notes amidst the fruit and sweetness, like stewed kale and rotten apples. Carbonation is so unrefined it almost feels chunky or gritty with giant bubbles. Slightly sticky on the lips with a finish that mostly just dies, but not before leaving a thin brown sugar-syrup residue. It’s actually sort of a blessing in disguise that this fades so fast, making it easier to drink in quantity. Maybe I got a bad bottle. I sure hope so.
rodenbach99 (472), Longueuil, Quebec, Canada
Aug 31, 2008 bouteille brune de 500ml. embouteillé au mois d’août 2008, 3,99$, bière dorée très claire, translucide, nez sucré, la mousse est fugace, inexistante. bouche sucrée un peu trop sucrée, fade
Quevillon (1339), Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, Canada
Mar 16, 2006 Blonde légèrement rosé. Arome d’érable et de fruit sûre. Petit collet. Goût d’atoka (amérindien pure camberge) sûre, sucré et acide un peu. Mieux la boire l’été.
Lubiere (3410), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Dec 19, 2005 Sickly hazy rosy blonde with a collapsing white head. Pleasant maple fudge aroma with light yeasty notes. Surprising woody maple notes with sour cranberry tartness, well balnced. Rather thin but good for summer drinking, ot to replace a rosé wine. April 2005.
muzzlehatch (4429), Burlington, USA
Jul 2, 2005 500 ml bottle. Large-bubbled, fizzy medium-lasting head sits atop an orangish-pinkish lightly translucent body...yep, there’s cranberry in the nose and gosh darnit, there’s maple too (not much), but it’s weak and simple...flavor much better, a lovely mix of the sour/tart berry flavors with the moderating maple syrupiness, sweet, juicy and tart all at once with a noticeable pale malt background, some hints of vanilla and lime...fairly full body, tingly light carbonation. If the nose were more expressive, this would really be top-notch...as it is, a very good fruit beer.
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