Reyne Descosse
Bedondaine et Bedons Ronds - Brasseur Artisan in Chambly, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular|
Score
7.64
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Growler, courtesy of Sergey, brewed 2019-12-12, filled 2020-11-18; 8% ABV
The colour is dark mahogany, almost black. The aroma is malty, light Parmigiano, candi sugar, dark fruits. Good body strength; it's sweet, good malt and caramel flavour, with a touch of smoke; mild Parmigiano again (that's probably the aging), the bitterness is very low, it magistrally hides the alcohol; the finish is rather short, even weak.
I wonder if on tap it's different, it's good but not exceptional.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
After almost two years of seeking this one, I finally was able to get my hands on it. It has never been packaged and available before COVID-19 times, so at least there is something good about this shlt happening now. This one is the last (but the hardest to get due to the limitation mentioned above) of 2 beers (the Ol Keeper is almost on the way) that I need to close TOP-50 Canadian beers on RateBeer. I know that it's not the really relevant top anymore for quite a long time (f@cI( you, Joe!), but who cares really? 😁 At least, it was fun (as well as headache, tries, and entreats) to get it, hehe. So: 1L growler straight from the source @ home. Thank you, Alex L., for making it happened and leaving to pick up one of the two growlers left at the brewery just in the middle of making your 2021 Christmas tree! I hope that your girlfriend forgave you quickly, despite non-understanding of what was going on! Brewed on 12 of December 2019. Poured into the growler on 18 of November 2020. Recommended for consumption within 14 days, so I am what, 2 days late, lol? Appearance: dark copper with a huge beige head. Aroma: sweet, lots of caramel and honey, figs, raisins, dark fruits. Taste: along the same lines, quite carbonated, pretty thick, with noticeable hoppy bitterness. A slight dryness in the finish. Overall: doubtless it is good for the style. It is an old-school beer, for sure, however, as I mentioned, it was fun to get one for closing the achievement 😂 P.S. Can you imagine leaving like Alex L. did? Kinda you are guys assembling everything and then - BAM! You - I need to leave! She - what?! where the heck you are going?! You - to buy a beer for my friend! She - which friend? You - a guy from BC with who I used to trade beers a couple of years ago! She - wut?! how do you know him? Where did you meet him? You - I did not meet him... She - ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? You - leaving in the middle of the making of the Christmas tree for a beer for the guy who leaves 5,500 km away who you've never even seen in your life! This is definitely a plot for another cartoon on YouTube about beer geeks! 😀
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Tap (Hivernale): Poured a dark mahogany color ale with a medium size foamy head. Aroma of caramelized malt and toffee is wonderful with light lingering peat notes also discernable. Taste is a wonderful mix between some caramelized notes with some toffee and residual sugar notes with light but perceptible notes of peat malt. This is perfectly balance while not being too sweet and not too smoky. Body is full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Sample, tasted at Oktoberfest de Mascouche, savoured on September 12 2009; eye: caramel with reddish reflections, hazy, tiny ring of head; nose: caramel, oak, scotch, candied fruits, light spices; mouth: caramel, oak, scotch, candied fruits, light spices, slight hops, rich, liqueur-like, average carbonation, mildly sweet, full-medium body; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Échantillon, bue à l’Oktoberfest de Mascouche, savourée le 12 septembre 2009; oeil : caramel avec des reflets rougeâtres, voilée, petit anneau de mousse; nez : caramel, chêne, scotch, fruits confits, léger épices; bouche : caramel, chêne, scotch, fruits confits, léger épices, très léger houblon, riche, liquoreuse, carbonatation moyenne, moyennement sucrée, corps moyen-corsé; en résumé : bien aimé
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2 ages sampled at brewpub, May 10 2009.: 1.5 year. A dark brown ale with a thin off white head. A pleasant caramel and porto aroma, light corky notes and rising bread. In mouth, a deep caramel, with wooden notes, plums, treacle, molassses and licorice. A bit intense. Very nice. 8-3-8-4-15
2.3 years: A more reddish hue with a thin off white head. A more pronounced plum and dark fruits in aroma, with nice maderization. Flavours more fused than in younger version, mixing the molasses, licorice and carmale into a nice assembly, porto-like. Awonderful experience. 9-4-8-4-16
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
En fût sur place (brassin 2006). De couleur rubis assez foncée et presque opaque. Nez fruité (raisins, notes de petits fruits), malté de caramel toffee aux petites notes rôties, terreuses et fumées, léger de chocolat avec des notes dalcool, de noix et de houblon herbeux. Ronde en bouche avec un pétillement bas et une texture riche et sirupeuse. Goût fruité (raisins aux petites notes vineuses, léger de petits fruits, faibles notes de prunes et de dates) lors de lentrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un goût malté de caramel toffee sucré légèrement rôti (faibles notes brûlées), aux notes terreuses et fumées ainsi que de petites traces de chocolat. Parallèlement, on retrouve un léger goût dalcool réchauffant jusquen finale où on y dénote également la présence dun léger goût de houblon herbeux avec des notes de noix. Post-goût moyen-long, moyen-léger amer de rôti, dalcool doux avec des notes de houblon herbeux ainsi qu un goût fruité (moût de raisins).(automne 2007)