Saint Arnould La Noblesse

Brewed by Saint Arnould
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Mont-Tremblant/Saint-Jovite, Canada

750 mL bottle. Nice packaging. Beer is hazy brown-orange with a nice head that quickly fades to a thick film. Nice lacing, though. Spells like a wit - sweet orange and spice - with the addition of sweetened cocoa powder. Flavour is odd, with the sweetened cocoa powder fighting it out with some vanilla extract for the right to hang out with the spices. A teensy bit cardboardy, and too sweet. Perhaps a little alcohol presence would help this one.

My bottle, thanks to C&K, shared with KW crew. Really sweet aroma - very fruity. Odd, but ok. Reddish pour, small white head. Taste is sweet with vanilla and some spiciness. Odd stuff, I have no idea what this is.

750 ml bottle shared by tupalev at a KW group tasting. pours a haze cherry with an off white head. vanilla extract nose. the flavour is mostly vanilla with some spicy quebec yeastiness that sometime works and other times it doesnt. finishable but not something ill seek out. thx for the share jeff.

750mL bottle, KW group tasting, not sure who brought this but thanks whoever you are. Pours a dark and hazy red with a medium white head. The aroma is very spicy and sweet, with indistinct fruity esters. A tad yeasty. Flavour is perhaps a bit too sweet, and the spicy aspects are a bit over-powering. Vanilla, cinnamon, cardamon, cloves, they all need some balance and the ample sweet malts just aren’t doing the job. Need some hops. Not horrible though. Lingering sweetness in the aftertaste, body is medium but hard to tell really what with all the spice.

Bouteille 750ml. De couleur orange-ambrée et voilée. Nez malté de caramel butterscotch sucré, moyen d’épices (cannelle, notes de poivre, traces de pain d’épices), léger de vanille, de levures fruitées (poires mûres, léger de pêche) avec des notes de houblon herbeux, de sirop d’érable et de gomme balloune. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture moyennement crémeuse. Goût de levures fruitées (poires, moyen-léger de pêche, notes d’agrumes, petites traces de mangues) accompagné d’un goût épicé (présent en arrière-goût toute la gorgée, composé de cannelle, notes de pain d’épices) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût malté de caramel sucré et léger de sirop d’érable avec des notes de gomme balloune puis en fianle l’on retrouve des traces d’alcool discret ainsi qu’une légère amertume asséchante de houblon herbeux (herbes mouillées, petites traces de thé) et épicé (poivre très doux). Post-goût moyen et aux notes sèches, légèrement amer de houblon herbeux avec un goût de levures fruitées (pelures de poires, traces de zest d’agrumes) et des notes épicées (cannelle).

A lightly hazed reddish brown ale with a thick lacing light moka head. An interesting gueuzy acidic aroma with cherry notes. In mouth, a good caramel malt with cherry notes, funkyness, infected in a good way. Medium bodied. On tap at St-Bock, March 27 2009.

Bottle - 750ml. Pours a hazy amber body with average carbonation and a thin off-white bubbly head. Good malty/hoppy aroma with caramel and fruity hints. Alcohol is well hidden. Taste, however, is misbalanced and carries some harsh chemical/bitter/sour notes. Ends with a bad dry, sour finish. Considering the outrageous price of 12,49 CAD it is sold for, this is a true disappiontment. Avoid.