RJ Le Cheval Blanc Snoreau

Bottle (660ml). Shared with blankboy, his bottle. Poured murky orange-amber with a very large foamy white head and solid drapes of lacing - a veritable fuzz farm at the bottom of the bottle. Aroma of sharp belgian wit - ashy hops, tartly of lemon, orange and banana fruit esters, some alcohol and yeast, extremely dry and a bit metallic. Taste is very fruit-tart - cranberry, red current, lemon juice, mild spices, sweet malt and somewhat funkily yeasty - really quite tart indeed! Mouthfeel slightly acidic, pretty flat, thick and juicy. Great summer thirst quencher! (bottom half of the bottle pours like pink grapefruit juice, even the head turned pink)

Hazy orange-reddish hue, with a frothy white head, with a nose offering a nice spicy bouquet of cinnamon, ginger and coriander, with a citrus fruity accent of tangerines and manderines and being accompanied by some sour notes from the cranberry juice added, and with a yeasty touch in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a beautiful acidity and a nice sourness from the cranberry juice aspect of the fruit himself, leading dawn his spicy touch of ginger, coriander, even with note of cinnamon, good tartness aspect remembering me of a lambic, with a yeasty character, leading towards a semi-tart and slightly hoppy finish.

The aroma give some spicy and sugar nose. However, the degustation give a spicy palate. Not a bad beer, good as a meal accompaniment.

Bouteille de 660 ml. Rousse peu foncé et brumeuse, petit collet. Arome de malte épicé simple. Goût minimal de malte fruité avec un peu d’épices.

Small white head, with a rose/orange color. Big cranberry aroma, spices. Flavor is the same , cranberries up front, alcohol presence is detectable but kind of dissepears when the beer warm up. I aint a cranberry guy.

Hazy golden to rose ale with a htin white head. Nice gingerbread man aroma with sweet vanilla and mpale notes. Slightlysour grapefruits in mouth with ginger and cranberry notes, and coriander. A bit thin but nice, like a real x-mas party. Tasted at Institut’s gambrinale, Outaouais, Oct. 28 2005.

tap at beerbistro, toronto. a cranberry beer. I smell and taste cloves. there is tartness which i can only attribute to cranberries because i am told they are in there, otherwise i dont think i would have guessed. they are in the background. fruity a bit. but i taste mostly cloves and some tartness.

On Tap at Smokeless Joe. Orange-amber in colour. Aroma was slightly sweet. of sour oranges, yeast, peaches and pears. Flavour was kind of a fruit salad with lots of apples, oranges and lemons. Acidic, yeasty and sweet mouthfeel. Medium body, high carbonation. Finishes with a mild sourness, medium length.