Lager Blonde
Le Cheval Blanc - Brasseur Artisan & Bar in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 🇨🇦
Lager - Premium Regular|
Score
5.90
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
nothing special typical lager, nice malt, and some slight hops, crips drinking beer. Nothing special, but solid.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at Le Cheval Blanc, Montreal, QC, Canada. Pours medium hazy, pale gold, with medium grained white foam. Aroma is a little of butterscotch. Body it's average, with moderate carbonation. Taste has moderate bitterness, matched by some final sweetness. Final is average.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at Le Cheval Blanc, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out crisp grassy hops, some herbal notes, and sweet cereal grains. Flavour is clean and crisp, with bright, spicy, grassy hops and crisp crackery malt. Now this is vibrant, crisp and quaffable. Amply hopped, with great bite and crispness. Excellent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Dégustée en fût sur place. De couleur dorée pâle et claire. Nez de grains de malt pâles, léger de levures fruitées (agrumes), léger de houblon floral aux notes herbeuses avec des notes de pain et de miel. Moyennement ronde en bouche et moyennement pétillante avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Léger goût de levures fruitées (agrumes) avec un goût de grains de malt pâle légèrement sucrés et accompagné d’un goût légèrement amer houblon floral aux faibles traces citriques (une amertume présente en arrière-goût toute la gorgée) lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un léger goût d’un moyen goût de pain avec des notes de miel et quelques traces de caramel doux puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon plus herbeux. Post-goût moyen, légèrement amer de houblon floral aux notes herbeuses avec de faibles notes fruitées (agrumes). (printemps 2006)
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Smells like nothing - just a little bit of crisp malt. Maybe a bit of noble hops or something in there. Smells decent. Drinkable beer for the yokels in this bar. Pours a little orange but it’s bad light in here so it’s hard to tell. On tap at brewpub.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
From tap at the brewpub. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild butterish and malty. Bitter, grassy and light cornish. Dry and slight cornish finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Draught pint at the brewpub on 1/27/07
Highly clear maize with a bit of copper-gold. Light carbonation in the liquid, leading to a small white head showing low to moderate retention, no lacing.
Medium strength nose tells of diacetyl lushly mixed with sweet pale malts. Soft, grassy hops are rather evident, as is a touch of sweet corn and fresh, crisp yeast. So you’ve got quite a paradox in the nose (and flavor). On one hand, the pleasant, crisp yeast on the finish and moderately aromatic, fresh hops are lively and crisp as a lager should be, but the somewhat underattenuated pale sugars and buttercreamy diacetyl work completely in the opposite direction. It comes out to something like an English pale ale, though maybe a bit more crisp and less fruity than that. No alcohol and only mild corn-like notes prove marginally troublesome.
Soft, well-malted texture is not overdone with carbonation, while the grassy/mossy hops have a touch of citrus to them and are moderately apparent, leading to a pleasing dryness. Unfortunately, a profound buttercream-like flavor all but drowns out the hops. It’s well-integrated with the malt and not of the burnt/dry popcorn or paper variety (the nuances of diacetyl.....) and just gives, well, a buttery-sweet beer that has a favorable texture. The finish has lightly crisp yeast, bits of corn sugar-like notes and some lingering nuttiness. Low fruitiness, but more than I’d expect from a lager. Probably just their house yeast fermented at cool temperatures, as others have suggested.
Get rid of the diacetyl, crank the attenuation, and they’d really have something lovely.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
A slightly hazy yellow beer with a nice white head. The aroma is very faint - the only thing I pick up is wheat. The flavor is wheaty dry with a nice hoppy bitter end.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Tap. May 2004 with Tiggmtl. Yellow fizzy lager with nice malts and hops in aroma. Nice light biscuity malt with a nice mild hop finish. Good balance and body for a lager.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sampled draught at the brewpub.
Pale golden, no head. Lightly orangey nose. Dryish and light-medium bodied with fizzy mouthfeel and salty, bitter finish. A simple lager with some highlights.