Dernière Volonté
(has 1 batch)
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Belgian Regular|
Score
7.22
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Dernière volonté (French for "Last Will") is a mix of Belgian and English brewing traditions. Complex flavours of hop flowers and spicy, fruity esters from our belgian yeast are perfectly balanced with the robust flavours and aromas of malt. The finish is commandeered by an assertive aroma from dry-hopping.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours bright gold into an English pint. Fluffy off-white whipped cream head tophats as it slowly recedes leaving spotted sheets. Candi and malt aromas. Smooth, creamy and slick with sour caramel and a dry, lasting citrus pip and pepper finish.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Oct 2008
at 17:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours with a largish, rocky, white head that leaves great, very strong lacing. Body is a murky yellow. Aroma of oranges, fruits, dryness, candi sugar, and honey. Taste is a bit bland, dry and spicy with a bit of hops. Very lively carbonated with a dry mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2008
at 00:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dry, herbal Belgian ale. Wild grass, light malt, citrus, and wheat flavors. Fairly complex. Moderate hops in there as well. This is really for a style that rarely produces exciting beers.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2008
at 17:32
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Surprisingly bitter and overly bitter at that, but enjoyable nonetheless. Hazy, yellow/golden body below a large, frothy and white head that lasts. the aroma is mostly orange, grapefruit and pineapple with notes of coriander. Hints of grain and dust with some banana and apples underneath it all. The flavor is moderately sweet and moderately bitter, but the bitterness dominates both of the initial flavor and the finish. You can taste fruit and spice. Medium body and a velvety texture. Plenty of carbonation. Nicely complex. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jul 2008
at 17:48
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle. Hazy gold color with a three-finger, semi-rocky white head. Aroma is coriander, yeast, bit of pepper, and maybe hop and malt. Maybe. Medium body with smooth and creamy carbonation. Flavor: Picking up spice and a touch of banana. Hint of pepper. Floral hop. Tingles the tongue. Finishes absolutely balanced and delicious. Very fine drinking. Is everything these folks brew this good?
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2008
at 23:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz bottle at Uber Tavern in Seattle, Washington. Pour is a very cloudy cheddar cheese orange with a thinnish white head. Aroma of Belgian yeasty spiciness. Some cloves come through to. Taste is a bit funky, with very drying spiciness. Some citrus peel. Finish is drying. Overall, reminded me a bit of Fantome with the yeast and spiciness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 May 2008
at 08:48
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden amber beer with a nice off-white head. Floral aroma with some nice yeast and a bit of fruitiness. Yeasty, floral, bready flavor. Medium body. Pepper and a yeasty breadiness lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2008
at 19:04
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Huge, very dense & fine, just-yellowish head over hazy golden beer with an orange to amberish shine; well-carbonated. Quite hoppy nose, C-hops, but not as overpowering as from an APA or IPA. Clearly dry-hopped, with a bit of ureum, and some citruspeel aromas. Nice. Very dry & hoppy flavour, in the taste noble UK hops, rather than C-one. Gently, nice crystal malt and toasted notes, lightly sweetish creep in, counterweighed by a citrussy fruitiness. Very balanced. Medium bodied & very slick, discreet alcohol warming. This kind of hoppiness will take another decennium to be called Belgian, I fear. In the mean time, the beer is beyond reproach. Grand merci, Sylvain!
Tried
on 12 Mar 2008
at 15:49
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle: Poured a deep dirty yellow color ale with a huge foamy head with perfect retention and some great lacing. Aroma of noble dry hops with some nice Belgian style malt. Taste is really dry and is totally dominated by some floral and dry hops with a nice Belgian malt structure. Body is above average with some limited filtration and perfect carbonation for the style. I believe we are just missing some wild yeast and we would have a perfect score.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2007
at 10:17
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample, at the Mondial de la biere 2006 June 2 2006; eye: hazy, caramel with straw reflections, tiny white head; nose: citrus, walk in a wood full of pine trees; mouth: freshness, mildly citrusy, full body, good carbonation FRANÇAIS Échantillon, bue au Mondial de la bière 2006 le 2 juin 2006; oeil : voilée, caramel avec des reflets paille, petite mousse blanche; nez : citron, marche dans un bois de sapin; bouche : fraîcheur, moyennement citronnée, petite pointe d’agrumes, pleine, bonne carbonatation
Tried
on 21 Nov 2007
at 20:14