L'Amère à Boire Odense Porter
Brasserie Artisanale L'Amère à Boire in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular|
Score
6.43
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
nice nose of burt malt, slight coffee, and a touch of smoke. Flavour ismuch of the same, but ièm finiding it a little thin. A nice beer, but too thin, not sure why they call this a porter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dégustée en fût sur place. De couleur brune-noire et opaque. Nez de malt rôti, léger de caramel toffee avec des notes de café et de chocolat noir. Mince en bouche et moyennement pétillante avec une texture très légèrement crémeuse. Goût très légèrement fruité (petits fruits foncés) avec des traces de fumée de bois lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi rapidement d’un goût de malt rôti avec un petit pic sucré (du genre caramel toffee) puis en finale se rajoute un léger goût de café ainsi que quelques notes de chocolat noir. Post-goût moyen-court et un peu sec, légèrement amer de rôti avec des notes de café et quelques traces de chocolat noir. (hiver 2005-2006)
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at L'Am�re � Boire, pours a dark, dark amber brown with a small tan head. Nose is like a porter, mild roast and mild espresso beans. Flavour of toasted malts, toasted nuts, very mild chocolate notes and light bready malts. Certainly more like a porter than a dunkel. Very smooth and restrained, but well-flavoured. Very solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From tap at the brewpub. Pours dark brown to black with no lasting head. Aroma is roasted malty and light breadish. Dark malty, caramelish and breadish flavoured. Bitter, dark malty and roasted. Dark malty and lingering roasted, light bitter, into the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draught, 5.0% at the brewpub. Distinctly roasted aroma, some coffee and sweet liquorice. Almost black colour, clear red shine. The flavour starts off roasted, turning to coffee and finishing with a little cream. Hint of bread in the finish. Flavourful for ABV.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Now this was a surprise beer, walking into l’Amere a Boire the morning after the grand tasting at RBSG, my eyes quickly noticed the name Odense - the largest city on the island Funen in Denmark and the birth place of Hans Christian Andersen, that turned 200 this April. My first thought in my hung over mind was that this could have nothing to do with Denmark - and if so it must be a tribute to Hans Christian Andersen. But neither was true. It is named Odense since the yeast comes from a now closed brewery in Kerteminde (situated on Funen), where the brewmaster from l’Amere a Boire had visited once a long time ago, and had been given some of the yeast, since he liked the beers from Kerteminde so much. Unfortunately the brewery closed before my interest in beer started. Where Odense comes into the equation didn’t I understand - except for the proximity to Kerteminde. Maybe it is about time the yeast is reimported, since a new brewery is starting up in Kerteminde.
The style was supposed to be a Danish Porter style - but that is Imperial Porters - so that can’t be true with the specs of the beer - so the style Dunkel as it is listed as, is pretty precise.
Rating:
An opaque black beer with a small brown head. The aroma is very light - what is there is roasted. The flavor is sweet and very roasted, combined with light notes of chocolate and wood. The mouthfeel is very smooth, but the body is thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On draught at the brewpub, 4/16/05 with MartinT. Pour is a dark brown, mostly clear with a slight hint of deep, deep garnet on the edge. Beige head is large initially, but quickly dissipating to nothing. Smells of yeast. Musty, dusty and old, with dry chocolate, touches of pumpernickel bread and light tobacco. Some dark fruits begin the flavor, blackberries, prunes, dark cherries and then there is a light amount of roast, touches of light chocolate and almost a bit of graham cracker or something like that. I think that’s actually the dry chocolate playing with the fizzy carbonation and strong yeastiness. Medium body at best, rather watery as it warms. But interesting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Dark brown beer with a thin head, vinous choclatey aroma. Very nutty tatse, a little chocolate, slight hoppiness, but it lacks body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A dark lager labelled by the brewer as a lager type porter. It is dark amber, roasty, medium bodied and with medium bitterness. A funny thing is that the name indicates it to have some sort of an Danish connection (Odense a Danish town), but all Danish porters are strong and huge, and this is probably the lightest beer I've ever seen called porter.