8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

(500ml bottle from L'Axe du Malt, Quebec City) Pours nearly clear medium gold with a nice thick white head and lacing. Notes of pale yellow tropical fruits and some bitter citrus spiked by nice peppery phenolic hops, moderate wine barrel notes, soft buttery oak, very much on the woody-peppery end of the spectrum, quite dry overall with very light acidity, good funk/phenol/barrel complexity rolling all the way into the dry finish, lingering fruity vinous notes and wood in a long aftertaste. Light to medium body with slick mouthfeel and average carbonation. Wow what a beautiful barrel-aging job here, this was a deceptively simple-sounding beer that ended up being extremely complex.