Blanche
Boréale - Les Brasseurs du Nord in Blainville, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Witbier Regular|
Score
5.99
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Légèrement agrumée et épicée, cette bière blanche québécoise et naturelle se boit comme un charme. Vous pouvez même y ajouter un petit zeste d'orange.
Marier la coriandre, le gingembre et l'orange ? Nous avons osé le faire, et ça fonctionne ! Le résultat est une bière blanche incroyablement rafraîchissante, expressive, mais toujours bien balancée. Une éloquente démonstration du savoir-faire de notre Maître-brasseur.
Marier la coriandre, le gingembre et l'orange ? Nous avons osé le faire, et ça fonctionne ! Le résultat est une bière blanche incroyablement rafraîchissante, expressive, mais toujours bien balancée. Une éloquente démonstration du savoir-faire de notre Maître-brasseur.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
This is your standard white beer widely available on tap when you are in Montreal. It pours a cloudy gold and has a nice mild clove spicy aroma with hints of citrus. The taste is clean and flavorful and pretty much what you’d want from a witbier. Not outstanding but I’d put it up head to head with Hoegaarden any day. A nice everyday white beer. ---update---- Bottle at my buddy Marc’s it pours a light cloudy straw gold with a big fluffy head. The aroma is spicy cloves, wheat & lemon. Nice soft mouthfeel. The taste is a solid witbier: wheat, citrus zest & coriander/cloves.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2013
at 05:30
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
33cl bottle, BB 01/2013 bought at Brussels xmas market. Dorée, blanche sans retrouver le style trouble. Arôme est citronné, orangé-écorce et pointe de coriandre pour un profil on en peut plus typique du style. Le tout est agréable tout en restant assez monodimensionnel dans l’approche. Palais de grains, le tout est fruité sur une note d’écorce d’orange, citronné et épice. Le froment peine un peu à se faire présent et on retrouve une bière simple et facile à boire sans vraiment bouleverser le style.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2013
at 08:27
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bouteille 341ml. de couleur jaune et voilée. Nez de levures fruitées (agrumes) et épicées (gingembre, notes de coriandre), léger de blé avec des notes de houblon herbeux. Mince-moyenne en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-fort et une texture légèrement aqueuse et aux notes crémeuses. Goût de levures fruitées aux faibles notes acides (agrumes, surtout de citron) et épicées (gingembre, notes de coriandre, traces de poivre) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un léger goût de blé asséchant accompagné de faibles notes de grains sucrés puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon herbeux (incluant de faibles traces de thé). Post-goût moyen et un peu sec, très légèrement amer de houblon herbeux et de levures avec un goût de levures fruitées (zeste d’agrumes) et épicées (gingembre) ainsi qu’avec des notes de blé.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2013
at 00:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bouteille 341ml. Couleur blond pâle, mousse blanche. Arôme de coriandre, d’agrumes. Goût semblable. Carbonation moyenne. Une Witbier assez banale.
Tried
on 24 Sep 2012
at 08:48
6/10
light with floral overtones, lemon without the tartness and a spice that i can’t put my finger on
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2012
at 05:00
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Thin head on top and a clear yellow-gold body like a bad lager. Aroma is lemon flavoured cleaning detergent, but not quite - in fact perhaps more like your sister’s bathroom if she has been using lemon hair products, or lemon Pledge..... you get the idea. Flavour is perfumy hops with a lemon finish, and enough carbonation for it to evaporate on your tongue. Very light that way; and when taken in a certain light it wouldn’t be so bad, but most of the time, sadly, it would be.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2011
at 08:27
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Originally rated November 2004. This is the newest beer from this brewer in a long time. Not being a fan of Boréale, I kind of hesitated. But a fan of witbier I am. Poured a cloudy golden-white colour with a beautiful thick white head. There is a good amount of lacing. Aromas are herbal and fruity. The taste is of ginger mostly with hints of honey and citrus. This is definitely not Unibroue’s Blanche de Chambly, but I find it still amazing because of the spices. Heavily recommended.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2010
at 19:12
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Light sour grain nose. Pale cloudy yellow, white head. Fruity base, straw, berry retronasal. Medium body. Minerally sticky finish.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2009
at 08:06
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught pint at le divan orange in Montreal on 1/26/07
Medium-sized white head slowly dissipates to partial-cover and then ring, leaving marginal lacing. Bubbly, pale-gold liquid is mostly clear and has light peach-copper hues throughout.
Pleasantly and not overly spiced nose shows dry coriander and white pepper-like notes. A zesty almost tangerine juice-like note takes on the lemon/orange-zest portion and right there you’ve got a good portion of the aroma. Unfortunately, Boreale’s house all-purpose yeast dosent provide much, if any, excitement. Not a true wit yeast and it really shows. Granted, it’s quite clean and you can’t fault that, but it’s just rather tacky. Nutty, dry, and only mildly estery at best. So the aroma falls mostly on the spicing. At least then, they know to do that with reservation. Medium aroma strength, but in a crowded bar from an English pint it was still easily sniffable.
High carbonation, rather obtrusive, picks apart an already highly attenuated body with orange, lemon and peach notes laced all throughout. White pepper and just a touch of honeyish sweetness provide most of the flavor with a soft herbal, hoppiness that keeps things gentle despite the overdone carbonation. But rather boring, overly clean yeast gives it more of an American wheat beer with Belgian spicing feel. That’s ok, I’m not going to fault them for the yeast they use. The important thing is that it’s clean, well-attenuated and drinkable. Maybe a bit too peppery and slightly seltzery/carbonic on the end.
Medium-sized white head slowly dissipates to partial-cover and then ring, leaving marginal lacing. Bubbly, pale-gold liquid is mostly clear and has light peach-copper hues throughout.
Pleasantly and not overly spiced nose shows dry coriander and white pepper-like notes. A zesty almost tangerine juice-like note takes on the lemon/orange-zest portion and right there you’ve got a good portion of the aroma. Unfortunately, Boreale’s house all-purpose yeast dosent provide much, if any, excitement. Not a true wit yeast and it really shows. Granted, it’s quite clean and you can’t fault that, but it’s just rather tacky. Nutty, dry, and only mildly estery at best. So the aroma falls mostly on the spicing. At least then, they know to do that with reservation. Medium aroma strength, but in a crowded bar from an English pint it was still easily sniffable.
High carbonation, rather obtrusive, picks apart an already highly attenuated body with orange, lemon and peach notes laced all throughout. White pepper and just a touch of honeyish sweetness provide most of the flavor with a soft herbal, hoppiness that keeps things gentle despite the overdone carbonation. But rather boring, overly clean yeast gives it more of an American wheat beer with Belgian spicing feel. That’s ok, I’m not going to fault them for the yeast they use. The important thing is that it’s clean, well-attenuated and drinkable. Maybe a bit too peppery and slightly seltzery/carbonic on the end.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Feb 2007
at 21:31
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
An unclear light yellow beer with a nice white head. The aroma is sweet with strong citrus and wheat notes. The flavor is sweet wheaty and very spicy, combined with notes of coriander and lemon. There is nothing wrong with this beer - it is jus average.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2005
at 17:29